JUNIOR BERNARD MANESS
JUNIOR "BUGS" MANESS OF POTOSI, MISSOURI, WAS BORN, FEBRUARY 4, 1932, IN BONNE TERRE, MISSOURI, A SON OF THE LATE LEWIS AND MARY (DEARING) MANESS. JUNIOR DEPARTED THIS LIFE AT GEORGIAN GARDENS NURSING HOME ON MAY 3, 1999, HAVING REACHED THE AGE OF SIXTY-SEVEN YEARS, TWO MONTHS AND TWENTY-EIGHT DAYS.
JUNIOR IS SURVIVED BY SEVEN SONS, MICHAEL MANESS AND WIFE BECKY OF POTOSI, BERNARD "MARTY" MANESS OF POTOSI, ANDREW MANESS OF CADET, BRYAN MANESS OF CADET, DAVID MANESS OF CADET, STEVEN MANESS, WIFE TONYA OF CADET AND JAMES MANESS OF POTOSI, FIVE DAUGHTERS, JANICE CLAPP OF MINERAL POINT, MARSHA GIBSON AND HUSBAND JESSE OF MINERAL POINT, JULIE MANESS AND FIANCÉ PAT MCINERNEY OF ST. LOUIS, PATRICIA SWAN OF RANDOLF, NEW YORK, CATHERINE CARVER AND HUSBAND RANDY OF CADET, FIFTEEN GRANDCHILDREN, TWO GREAT GRANDCHILDREN, ONE BROTHER, CLIFFORD MANESS AND WIFE IMAGEAN OF POTOSI AND BY MANY OTHER RELATIVES AND FRIENDS. IN ADDITION TO HIS PARENTS HE WAS ALSO PRECEDED IN DEATH BY THREE GRANDCHILDREN, TWO SISTERS, LAVERN RASNIC AND THELMA LYNN MANESS.
JUNIOR HAD A GREAT LOVE FOR HIS COMMUNITY ALWAYS ANXIOUS TO VIEW ITS' MANY HIGHLIGHTS. HE ENJOYED TRAVELING AROUND THE AREA WHEN HE WAS ABLE.
A KIND AND LOVING FATHER, GRANDFATHER, GREAT GRANDFATHER, BROTHER AND DEAR FRIEND WHO WILL BE SADLY MISSED AND LOVINGLY REMEMBERED BY ALL WHO KNEW HIM.
VISITATION WAS HELD TUESDAY, APRIL 4, 1999, FROM 5:30 P.M. TO 9:00 P.M. AT THE GUM & SON FUNERAL HOME IN POTOSI.
FUNERAL SERVICES WERE CONDUCTED WEDNESDAY, APRIL 5, 1999, AT 10:00 A.M. AT THE GUM & SON CHAPEL WITH REVEREND W. CARL WRIGHT OFFICIATING. BURIAL WAS IN ADAMS CEMETERY UNDER THE DIRECTION OF GUM & SON FUNERAL HOME IN POTOSI.
SERVING AS PALLBEARERS WERE, MARTY MANESS, DAVY MANESS, CLAYTON GIBSON, JIMMY MANESS, ANDY MANESS AND STEVE MANESS.