WAYNE IRVIN MCMANIGLE

- Harvey Herbert McManigle (1890-1970)
- +  Florence Viola Farrell (1890-1983)
- Vivian Marie McManigle (1910-1982)
- Carmen Evangeline McManigle (1912-1989)
- Evelyn Lucille McManigle (1915-2012)
- Carl Franklin McManigle (1918-1974)
- Wayne Irvin McManigle (1924-1973)
- +  Mary Ellen Baughman (1928-2017)
- Mary Jane McManigle (1926-2006)
- +  Victor George Cyone (1926-2009)
Wayne Irvin McManigle was the second youngest of Harvey and Florence McManigle's children. He was born December 10, 1924, in Port Barnett, Jefferson County, Pennsylvania.
In 1924, World War I had ended just six years ago and was still fresh in our memory, the IBM (International Business Machine) corporation was founded, the first regular airmail services started in the USA, two U.S. Army planes completed the first round-the-world flight in 175 days, Ellis Island closes as an immigration entry point to the US, Vladimir Lenin died and Joseph Stalin began his bid for leadership, and Johnny Weissmuller won three gold medals at the Summer Olympics held in Paris, France
Wayne and his younger sister Mary Jane McManigle were very close. Wayne had been held back a year in starting school so he and Mary Jane went through school together in the same grade and were very fond of each other.
Wayne lived in Port Barnett, Pennsylvania, where he was born in 1924. In 1930, when Wayne was six, the family was living in Pine Creek.
By 1939, although most Americans were in denial, World War II had begun with the invasion of Poland. On December 7, 1941, the Japanese made believers of us by conducting a surprise attack on Pearl Harbor, Hawaii. Wayne went to Altoona and enlisted in the Army April 24, 1943, while living in Jefferson County, Pennsylvania. His enlistment record indicates that he was sixty-six inches tall and weighed 119 pounds. Prior to his enlistment he had been working as a filling station attendant. It indicates that he was single, with dependents. That doesn't seem likely unless he had a dog. Wayne was nineteen years old and his marriage to Mary Ellen was still seven years off. She was only fourteen years old in 1943.
The Army sent him to Camp Polk, Louisiana, where he served in the Motor Transportation Corps. He enlisted as a private and was promoted to technical sergeant before being released from active duty.
World War II ended with the signing of the official surrender documents by the Japanese on September 2, 1945, and the Army started discharging servicemen soon after that. After Wayne was discharged from the Army he went home to Brookville.
When he got home Wayne got a job with Sylvania and in 1950 he married Mary Ellen Baughman daughter of Victor Jay Baughman and Sarah Elizabeth Painter. Sylvania asked him to move to Burlington, Iowa, to take another position and he accepted. In the short time the family was there, their first child, Patti, was born. Then, they moved to Brentwood, Pennsylvania, and then to a suburb of Pittsburg they referred to as Pleasant Valley where their second child, Kathy, was born. Mary Ellen said that Patti was born at Mercy Hospital in Burlington and Kathy was born at Mercy Hospital in Pittsburg.
After leaving Sylvania Wayne moved the family to Altoona, Pennsylvania, and thence to Shawnee, Oklahoma. While living in Shawnee Wayne worked for a small company that did electroplating of small parts used in the manufacture and assembly of larger products (e.g. of the guides on fishing rods used to guide the line into the reel).
Mary Ellen also worked at the electroplating business and also worked at the school. She worked in a program that helped children stay in school. This came as a surprise to her eldest daughter when she saw her mother's picture in the Shawnee High School year book years later. She didn't understand how she didn't know about this and further how she overlooked her mother's photo in her year book all those years.
Wayne and Mary Ellen enjoyed square dancing and camping. The folks they went square dancing with also enjoyed going camping. Wayne was an expert with the barbecue and went to a butcher to get his meat. He selected the meat himself and if it was not up to his standards when served, then the butcher would hear about it.
In August 1973, Wayne was taken ill quite suddenly and died. They took his body back to Pennsylvania and buried him with his family in St John's Cemetery, Windy Hill, Rose Township. There he sleeps until the dead in Christ shall rise and we pray we will be reunited with him in the heavens.
Wayne was an honest and friendly man. He lived his life on the square and compassed his life so that he might live according to the Word of the Great Architect. He was blessed by God with a wonderful family but cheated of a long life by an evil world. He was in love with his wife and spent his life proving it. Together they raised their children and their children were a blessing to them. He was stubborn in his support of what he believed to be right. He worked hard at whatever he set his hand to and was always ready to help his neighbor. In the end God called him home and now he can rest.
