Max Garrett Manwaring

Max Garrett Manwaring, 92, passed away on Saturday, February 1, 2025 in Salt Lake City, Utah. Max was born in Nephi, Utah on December 17, 1932 and spent his young life primarily in Grass Valley, California and Salt Lake City, Utah. Max graduated from South High School in Salt Lake City; served in the US Army during the reconstruction years after World War II; served an LDS mission in Montevideo, Uruguay; graduated from the University of Utah and married Janet Bateman on August 31, 1959, and then adventured into a life of academic activity and service to his country. He received a PhD in Political Science from the University of Illinois and went on to serve on the faculty at Wisconsin State University in Platteville, and the University of Memphis before embarking on a distinguished career in the US Defense, State, and Intelligence Communities where he lived in Washington, DC, Panama, and Carlisle, Pennsylvania over a span of many years. He entered full-time miliary service at one point in his career and left as a Colonel in the US Army before continuing in civilian capacities. Ultimately, he concluded his life of service to his county as the General Douglas MacArthur Chair of Research at the Strategic Studies Institute at the US Army War College in Carlisle, Pennsylvania. He is the author of many books focused on national security strategy policy and economic development and has inspired a generation of scholars in national security strategy. There is an award given out in Washington each year by a distinguished think tank to one who has distinguish themselves in the service to our country in the national security strategy policy community, the recipients include members of Congress, Ambassadors, and other distinguished members of his community, and it’s named in his honor, titled the Manwaring Award. 

During all this he was a wonderful husband and father and had three children with his wife Janet of 65 years. A daughter, Suan Kay Manwaring (deceased), and two sons, Alan Douglas Manwaring, currently of Salt Lake City, Utah and Paul Bateman Manwaring of Amsterdam, The Netherlands. He has two wonderful grandchildren, Sienna Montana Manwaring of Amsterdam and Will Shumway Manwaring of Salt Lake City, Utah.

His funeral will be held on Saturday, February 22nd at 11:00am at the LDS Capitol Hill ward located at 413 W Capitol Street in Salt Lake City, Utah. There will be a viewing on Friday, February 21st from 6-8pm and right before the service on Saturday, February 22nd from 10-11am, both at the Capitol Hill ward chapel. His interment will be at the Utah State Veterans Memorial Park at 2:00pm on Monday, February 24th.

The service will be livestreamed on the Goff Mortuary Facebook Page at the following link:

https://www.facebook.com/pages/category/Funeral-Service---Cemetery/Goff-Mortuary-116988261695382/

(The livestream video will appear when the service starts.)