Jimmy Dale Manar
Feb. 1, 1940 Feb. 14, 2019 Jimmy Dale Manar, 79, of Neosho, Mo., died Thursday, Feb. 14, 2019.
He was born Feb. 1, 1940, in Seymour,
Mo., to George and Lila (Vanmeter) Manar. He served in the U.S. Air Force for 22 years. He then worked in the data processing field, retiring in 2002. He was a member of the Joplin Full Gospel Church. On Sept. 8, 1961, he married Phyliss Gideon; and later, Verna, on Nov. 7, 1981, in Pineville, Mo.
He was preceded in death by his parents, George and Lila Manar; his first wife, Phyliss (Gideon) Manar; two sisters, Barbara and Anna; and three brothers, David, Lynden and Jerry.
Survivors include his wife, Verna; five children, Eddie Whittington, Kevin Whittington, Judith Manar Lanningham (Larry), Kim Musgrave (Cecil) and Kristie Putnam; 11 grandchildren; four sisters, Bessie West (Jim), Connie Hoagland (Lester), Sandra Woods and Betty Navarro (Ray); and two brothers, George Manar (Laura) and Bert Manar (Julie).
Funeral services will be held at 10 a.m. Friday, Feb. 22, 2019, at the Joplin Full Gospel Church with Pastors Joyce Myers and Josh Patrick officiating. The family will receive friends for visitation from 5 to 7 p.m. Thursday, Feb. 21, 2019, in the chapel of Thornhill-Dillon Mortuary.
In lieu of flowers, memorial contributions are payable to the Alzheimer’s Association in care of the mortuary.
Thornhill-Dillon Mortuary of Joplin, Mo., is in charge of arrangements.