Cloyde Mankin

Funeral Services were held 10:30 A.M., Friday, October 6, 1995 at the Aurora First Christian Church. Interment was held in the Aurora Cemetery.

OBITUARY: Cloyde Mankin

Cloyde Clayton Mankin, the son of Clinton and Trella (Phelps) Mankin, was born at Trumbull, Nebraska, on November 25, 1912, and died at Grand Island, Nebraska, on October 3, 1995, at the age of 82 years, 10 months, and 8 days.

He grew up in Trumbull, and graduated from Trumbull High School, and later farmed in the Trumbull area.

On November 22, 1936, he was united in marriage to Ialeen Luthy, at Harvard, Nebraska.

They lived in Seattle, Washington, where he was a fireman on the Great Northern Rairroad, and later worked as a welder for Boeing Aircraft. They then moved to Aurora, where he was a prominent farmer in the area, until his retirement. Following his retirement, they lived several winters in Arizona.

Cloyde was a member of the Aurora First Christian Church, and had served on the church board. He had also served as chairman of the Hamilton County Democrats, and was chairman of the Hamilton County Senior Citizens. He was a member of the National Kidney Foundation, and had been a renal dialysis patient for 15 years, and as such, became an inspiration for many dialysis patients.

Cloyde was a devoted family man, and enjoyed being with his family and grandchildren and great grandchildren.

He was preceded in death by his parents, one brother Dean, and a brother in infancy.

Those who remain to cherish his memory are his wife Ialeen of Aurora; 2 sons, Wendell and his wife Sandy, and Max and his wife Kathy, of Aurora; 2 daughters, Beverly Rueter and her husband Robert of Wylie, Texas, and Rosemary Molvar and her husband Mike of Lincoln; 2 brothers, Blake of Hastings, and Wilbur of Giltner; 3 sisters, Izona Best of Norfolk, Virginia, Roena Mannschreck of Lewiston, Idaho, and Arlene Pfeiffer of Birmingham, Alabama; 10 grandchildren, and 3 great grandchildren.