NOVEMBER 26, 1939 – MARCH 16, 2012
IVA, SC - Phyllis Gail Manning, age 72, of Iva, SC, passed away on Friday, March 16, 2012.
She was born in Fort Oglethorpe, GA on November 26, 1939 to James William and Marjorie Smith Sutherland. Phyllis was a member of the first graduating class of Crescent High School. She attended Anderson College where she received an Associate’s Degree. Phyllis was a veteran of the US Air Force and worked in retail management for twenty years. She was also a member of the First Baptist Church of Iva, where she was a Sunday School teacher for many years.
In addition to her loving husband, Walter Haskell Manning, whom she was married to for thirty four years, she is survived by her children; Marjorie Sisco and her husband, Keith of Selma, NC, Gretchen Shirley, and her husband John of Piedmont, SC, Michelle Hollenback, and her husband, Thomas of Anderson, SC and Kelly Cobb, and her husband, Allen of Hartwell, GA; grandchildren, Christopher Blake Blume, Kaitlin McKayla Shirley, Sommer Skye Phillips, Ericka Nicole Cochran, and Jeffery Chase Brown; and two great-grandchildren.
A Graveside Service will be held Monday, March 19, 2012, at 11:00 am at the M.J. Dolly Cooper Veterans Cemetery, officiated by Reverend Roger Estridge, with Military Honors.
In lieu of flowers, memorials may be made to the First Baptist Church of Iva, 9636 S.C. 81 South
P.O. Box 475, Iva, SC 29655.
A message of condolence may be sent by visiting www.mcdougaldfuneralhome.com.