John Manning funeral set for Aug. 29 in his native Massachusetts
Funeral services have been set for Monday, Aug. 29, for former Lee County Commissioner John Manning, who died earlier this month.
The Roman Catholic rite will be offered in a funeral mass at St. John the Evangelist church in Pocasset, a seacoast community on Buzzard's Bay in Bourne, Massachusetts, where Manning spent summers with his family.
He moved to Southwest Florida 40 years ago and served two terms as a county commissioner after serving as a member of the Cape Coral City Council.
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In recognition of his service as a county commissioner and city council member, Lee County commissioners voted unanimously last week to name the county office building at 1039 Southeast Place in Cape Coral as the Commissioner John Manning Building.
The service is scheduled to begin at 10 a.m.
Burial will be private. Manning will be interred at Forest Hills Cemetery, a garden cemetery founded in 1848 and listed on the National Register of Historic Places.
Manning retired from the county commission last year after more than 20 years in office during two different eras of Lee County's growth.
He is survived by his wife Donna Manning and daughters Sarahbeth Manning (Roeschlein) and Melissa Manning (Mercure), three grandchildren, two brothers and a sister.
Funeral arrangements are by Chapman Funerals, 2599 Cranberry Hwy., Wareham, Massachusetts.
The family has asked that instead of flowers, donations be made the the MGH PSP Fund in care of Massachusetts General Hospital Development Office, 125 Nashua Street, Boston, 02114.
The fund finances research in Progressive Supranuclear Palsy, a brain disorder that inhibits control of the brain and body.
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