{"id":30779,"date":"2025-11-18T09:28:32","date_gmt":"2025-11-18T14:28:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/?p=30779"},"modified":"2025-11-18T09:28:33","modified_gmt":"2025-11-18T14:28:33","slug":"janice-manges","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/index.php\/2025\/11\/18\/janice-manges\/","title":{"rendered":"Janice Manges"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Janice Kay Manges, 82, gently passed away to be with her Savior on Sunday morning, November 16, 2025, at Heritage Pointe of Warren.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Kay was born in Garrett on May 12, 1943, to Thomas A. and Georgia (Kelham) Hively, who preceded her in death.&nbsp; She married Hans P. Manges at Merriam Christian Chapel in Merriam, Indiana, on June 15, 1968. He preceded her in death on October 19, 2024.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"200\" height=\"200\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/wzbd.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/unnamed-5.png?resize=200%2C200&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-30780\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/wzbd.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/unnamed-5.png?w=200&amp;ssl=1 200w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/wzbd.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/unnamed-5.png?resize=150%2C150&amp;ssl=1 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>A 1961 graduate of Wolf Lake High School, Kay later graduated from Manchester College with a bachelor\u2019s degree in education and University of Saint Francis with a master\u2019s degree in education, and a post-graduate degree in Biology. She was a teacher at Crown Point, Goshen, and Norwell high schools. Over the years she enjoyed coaching girls\u2019 basketball, track, volleyball, and cheerleading for a variety of ages.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Kay was involved for several years with the Wells County 4-H Association and the Wells County Homemaker\u2019s Club. She competed at the Indiana State Fair multiple times in sewing and was a 4-H sewing and fashion judge for several counties.&nbsp; Her love of learning continued in Fashion Design at Harper College in Schaumburg, Illinois where she and Hans spent many years commuting from Bluffton for his work. Kay also volunteered with the Wells County Mental Health Association, and she was a member of the Warren Church of Christ.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Kay loved spending time with her grandchildren, children, family, and friends. She also enjoyed substitute teaching, being a Sunday School teacher, foster parenting, taking on new projects, new skills, and had a love of learning for as long as she could.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Survivors include a son, Brian (Katia) Manges of Chesterfield, Virginia; a daughter, Kelly (Troy) Leyse of Monroe; three grandchildren, Makayla (Jason) Cook, Curt Leyse, and Georgia (Jordan) Patterson; a great-grandchild, Axton Cook; and a sister, Mary Schlotterback of Albion.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In addition to her husband and parents, Kay was preceded in death by a sister, LaWanta Sue Weeks; two brothers, Thomas J. Hively and William \u201cBill\u201d Hively; and a brother-in-law, Terry Schlotterback. &nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Visitation will be on Saturday, November 22, 2025, from 10:30 AM until 1:00 PM, at Goodwin \u2013 Harnish Funeral Home in Bluffton.&nbsp; A funeral service will be held at 1:00 PM on Saturday, immediately following the visitation, with retired pastor and chaplain Gerald Moreland officiating.&nbsp; Burial will follow at Elm Grove Cemetery in Bluffton.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Memorial contributions can be made to Heritage Pointe of Warren in honor of over six years of good care and encouragement from the staff, not only to Kay, but also her family.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Janice Kay Manges, 82, gently passed away to be with her Savior on Sunday morning, November 16, 2025,<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[23],"class_list":["post-30779","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-obituaries","tag-obit"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30779","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30779"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30779\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30781,"href":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30779\/revisions\/30781"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30779"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30779"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30779"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}