ROBERT T. MANNING M.D.

Robert T. Manning, MD, 85, of Katy, Texas, passed away September 10, 2013. He was born October 16, 1927 to Thomas E. and Mary Ray Manning and lived in Kansas and Nebraska during his youth. He served as a Staff Sergeant in the Army Air Corps from 1945 to 1947 where he was encouraged to become a physician. He married Jane Bell on July 30, 1949 and earned his BA degree from Wichita State University in the spring of 1950. He attended the University of Kansas School of Medicine graduating with his MD degree in the spring of 1954. The entirety of his professional career was spent in academic medicine where he balanced patient care with the education of medical students, residents and fellow physicians. He left KUMC in 1971 to become the founding Dean of the Eastern Virginia Medical School until 1975 and continued serving there as Chairman of the Internal Medicine Department until 1977. He returned to Wichita, Kansas, and joined UKSM-W as Chairman of Resident Education at Wesley Hospital until his retirement in 1992. Throughout his career he received accolades for excellence in teaching and was highly respected for his intelligence, integrity and humanism. In retirement, he continued to educate others through Senior University in Georgetown, Texas, while spending his leisure time woodworking, fishing and reading. He was preceded in death by his wife, Jane. He is survived by his three children, Mary Kay (Mark) Fausch, Phillip (Darla Jo) Manning and Susan Shiba (Grant Lane); his five grandsons, Andrew (Maria) and Joshua Travers, Connor Manning, and Jason (Blair) and Bryan Shiba, and his great-grandson, Liam Travers. A celebration of his life will take place at The Worship Place in Georgetown, Texas on Saturday, November 9, 2013 at 1pm. The family requests no flowers. Contributions can be made in his memory at Wichita State University, Kansas University Medical Center, Eastern Virginia Medical School and The Worship Place or The Caring Place, both in Georgetown, Texas.