Obituary - Charles Emmett Manuel
Charles Manuel
Charles Emmett Manuel passed away in his home surrounded by loved ones Thursday, December 10, 2020. He was 87 years old. His life began in a similar way at his family s home where he was born November 16, 1933. Because home births were common in those days, his official birthdate wasn t recorded until the next day, November 17th. It is for this reason that Charles would always strongly suggest that he was entitled to celebrate two birthdays each year. Born as the eighth child out of 11, Charles grew up on the family homestead South of Havre, which eventually became the launching pad for his life s work and home base for his decades of being a devoted husband to his wife and father to his own five children. In a world that could scarcely be imagined by most of us today, his years growing up were spent being taught by his mother how to make a large family survive at times on nothing more than a milk cow and a garden.