Manley, Wyatt Walton III

1933 - 1942  (8 years)

• Name	Manley, Wyatt Walton
  Suffix	III
  Born	4 Nov 1933	Devol, Cotton County, Oklahoma, USA
  Gender	Male
  Died	4 Jul 1942	Cotton County, Oklahoma, USA
  Buried	5 Jul 1942	Burkburnett Memorial Cemetery - Burkburnett, Wichita County, Texas, USA
  	Findagrave.com Memorial #37664282
  Person ID	I8914	Coursey-Sansing Tree
  Last Modified	17 Nov 2020

  
  

  Father	Manley, Wyatt Walton Jr.,   b. 17 Dec 1911, Roanoke, Randolph County, Alabama, USA ,   d. 16 Dec 1984, Burkburnett, Wichita County, Texas, USA  (Age 72 years)
  Mother	Coursey, Mamie Ruth,   b. 8 Apr 1912, Devol, Cotton County, Oklahoma, USA ,   d. 30 Nov 1997, Burkburnett, Wichita County, Texas, USA  (Age 85 years)
  Married	15 Aug 1931	Harmon County, Oklahoma, USA
  Family ID	F3669	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

• Notes

  Obituary   BURK DROWNING VICTIM BURIED Funeral Held Sunday for Manley Boy Special to The Record News   BURKBURNETT, Texas, July 5 - Funeral services were conducted Sunday afternoon for Wyatt Walton Manley, 8, son of Mr. and Mrs. Walton W. Manley, who was drowned Saturday night in a farm tank northeast of Devol. The rites were conducted by Rev. A. B. Hughes, the pastor, at the Devol Baptist Church and burial was in the Burkburnett Cemetery under the direction of the Owens & Brumley Funeral Home. The boy was drowned as he and several other youths were swimming in teh tank, near Cedric Scholl.  Young Manley and Dan Weaver, 9, remainted in the water as the others went to a farmhouse a short distance away.  When the two boys returned to the tank and found that Manley had disappeared. The body was recovered an hour and a half later but more than four hours of effort to revive him failed.  The Burkburnett Fire Department's first aid squad used an inhalator in the resuscitation effort. The youth is survived by his parents; two brothers, Robert L. and Leonard Neal Manley, both of Devol, and his grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. W. W. Manley Sr., Mr. and Mrs. L. M. Coursey of Shasta, Calif.