Seattle, Washington
Claude Manning passed away in Seattle, Washington. The obituary was featured in The Seattle Times on March 9, 2011.
Dear Sonny, I cannot believe you have been gone for fourteen years. I look at you almost everyday in my work office (photos of Greece) and of you standing on the big granite outcroppings in Rockport, MA - when we were young and in grad school. We remember you and miss you presence among us. The birds at the feeders are our messengers...Love, Margaret
Margaret
March 04, 2025 | Family
Dear Sonny, I remember you each and every day as your pictures from Greece hang in my office for work and I see you each day at my home office where your picture hangs right above my desk. It doesn't seem real that you are not here. I know, however, that you are at rest and at peace. With fondness and great love, Margaret
Margaret Manning Shull
March 04, 2024 | Family
Dear Sonny, Twelve years have gone by so quickly. But there is hardly a day I do not think about you. Other members of our family have now joined you in death, but you are all remembered in our memories and our hearts. What a small gesture it is to write in this guest book each year, I know. But it is one small way we continue to carry you with us. Love, Margaret
Margaret Manning Shull
March 06, 2023 | Family
Dear Sonny - It is hard to imagine that you have been gone 10 years now - I am becoming an old woman without you! There is hardly a day that goes by that I don't think about you...you are missed and loved forever
Margaret Manning-Shull
March 04, 2021 | Bellingham, WA | Spouse
Remembering you this day, Sonny! We all miss you and love you still.
Margaret Manning Shull
March 04, 2020 | Bellingham, WA | Spouse
Dearest Margaret,
Herb and I were deeply saddened to hear of the loss of your beloved Sonny. He was such a warm and loving man. Special people like him leave huge voids behind when they leave this earth.
He may have gone on to Heaven before us, but he will never leave the lives of those he touched. He lives forever in the hearts of everyone who knew and loved him.
And you are in the hearts and prayers of everyone who loves you. May God wrap you in His loving...
Herb and Deborah Thompson
March 28, 2011 | Atlanta, GA
Sonny, It's too much for me to believe. The memories keep shooting past like rapid fire--some of them quiet and moving, some of them outrageous and bright--always, always twinged with that sparkle in your eyes.
It all seems a little darker knowing that you are gone and there are no more possibilities--and yet as I sat in the church today I realized that we had all become molecules of the one we knew as Sonny. Because of that you will live on as long as we do.
Kathi Guffey
March 26, 2011 | Everett, WA
Our Sonny... God only created just a few of the special ones who would pass through this life and leave such an authentic mark on our hearts that time will not take away. You were an wonderful child, remarkable young man and God's man forever. We loved you more than you will ever know and our hearts will always miss you. Mom and Dad (Dewayne & Sue)
March 14, 2011
Margaret,
I'm so sorry for your loss of Sonny. I will hold you up constantly in my prayers. I am here if you ever need anything. I love you!
Caroline Peterson
March 14, 2011 | Carol Stream, IL