Stewart W. McManus

Stewart W. McManus, 78, of Illinois City, Ill., died Sunday, Jan. 18, 2004, at Trinity West Hospital.
Service will be 2 p.m. Wednesday at Ralph J. Wittich-Riley-Freers Funeral Home. The Rev. Tim Ferrill of the Pine Bluff United Methodist Church will officiate. Casket bearers will be Dallas McManus, Blake McManus, Rod Summy, Todd Freyermuth, Chad Winegard and Donald DeKeyrel. Burial will be in Illinois City Cemetery.
Visitation will be 3 to 7 p.m. today at the funeral home. Memorials may be made to the American Heart Association or the Pine Bluff United Methodist Church. Online condolences may be left for the McManus family at www.wittichfuneralhome.com.
Mr. McManus was born Dec. 19, 1925, in Clinton, Iowa, the son of Virgil K. and Mary H. (Gertsen) McManus. He married Mary Kathryn "Kay" Haskins on Aug. 18, 1951, in Davenport.
He was a decorated military veteran serving in the U.S. Army during World War II in the North African Theater and European Theater.
He was a member of the Pine Bluff United Methodist Church. For 30 years he raised registered quarter horses and for 20 years judged horse shows. He was an avid traveler and loved to work in his yard.
He retired from International Harvester in 1979 after 34 years of service.
Survivors include a special companion, Ruth Fuller, of Illinois City; four children, to whom he was a devoted father: Grant McManus and wife, Bonnie, of Moline, Ill., Jeff McManus and wife, Leslie, of Illinois City, and Barry J. McManus and wife, Teri, of Muscatine, Iowa, and Julia Shull and husband, Tracy, of Muscatine; eight grandchildren, Amanda McManus, Kassie McManus, Kindle McManus, Kirby McManus, Dallas McManus, Blake McManus, Lakyn Shull and Kathryn Shull; one brother, David Grant McManus, of Pleasant Valley, Iowa; and one sister, Dee Davis and husband, Charles, of Rock Island, Ill.
He was preceded in death by his parents, and his wife.