Vance Manning

Vance Lee Manning passed away on Feb. 19, 2017 at Alaska Regional Medical Center in anchorage, Alaska, after a short Illness. He was born in Houston, Texas on Dec. 15, 1955 and moved to Anchorage in 1966, residing there until 1971 when the family moved to Nigeria, West Africa. He attended school in Switzerland and Las Palmas, Canary Islands. The family then moved to Brussels, Belgium where he finished high School.

He followed in his father’s footsteps, in Building Offshore oil platforms in the North Sea, Cook Inlet and off the African coast, he is the only sixteen-year-old to work in the North Sea. His work took him to many Arab countries, Cameroon, Nigeria, Angola, Thailand, Malaysia and others. He returned to Texas and started a trucking company which allowed him to travel to every state in the union. He drove the haul road delivering products to Prudoe Bay. After selling his trucking company he settled in Montgomery, Texas where he opened a skeet and trap club. He sold his business and moved to Alaska in 2011. He was a volunteer for the Alaska Moose Federation.

He is survived by his mother, Ginger Manning, his daughters Shawna McQuate and Melissa Manning, and three grandchildren. He was preceded in death by his father, Erwin Manning in 2007, and his sister Nadine Manning in 2001.

Services will be held in Texas. Funeral arrangements have been entrusted to Legacy Funeral Homes.