Member of Well Known Construction Engineering and Contracting Firm In Maritimes Passes At Age of 66 – Was Prominent As Curler – Funeral on Tuesday.
A wide circle of friends throughout New Brunswick will learn with deep regret of the passing on Saturday evening of John W. McManus, a highly esteemed citizen of Moncton and long a prominent figure in the construction industry in this province. Although in indifferent health for some time past, his illness only took a serious turn about a fortnight ago and the news of his demise will come as a profound shock to all who knew him.
A member of an old and highly respected Eastern New Brunswick family, the deceased was born in Memramcook 66 years ago, son of the late John W. and Mary Ann (Reid) McManus. He was educated in St. Joseph’s University and the University of New Brunswick, graduating from the latter institution in civil engineering. At that time he became an associate in the firm of John W. McManus and Company, construction engineers and contractors, and throughout his professional career had been engaged on many large contracts in the Maritime Provinces, including part of the National Transcontinental Railway.
Mr. McManus moved to Moncton about 35 years ago and has since made his home here. He was a sterling type of citizen and although of a retiring disposition he, nevertheless, took a deep interest in the progress of the city and at times lent his support to all worthy objects. Of pleasing disposition and affable manner, he had the faculty of making and retaining many friendships in the Maritimes and other parts of Canada and the U.S.A. by all of whom he was held in high regard. He was a devout member of St. Bernard’s Church and a member of the Holy Name Society. He was an ardent and expert curler, having a long membership in Moncton Curling Club and was one of its leading skips.
The late Mr. McManus was predeceased by his wife, the former Miss Clare Creaghan, R.N., daughter of the late Mr. and Mrs. J. D. Creaghan of Newcastle, who had a distinguished record as a nursing sister overseas in the First Great War. He leaves to mourn an only son, John W. , of Montreal, two brothers, Reid McManus, Moncton, and Edward E. McManus, Memramcook; also one sister, Madame Katherine McManus, of the faculty of Scared Heart Convent, Halifax.
The body is resting at the home of his brother, Reid McManus, 250 Bonaccord Street, from where the funeral will be held on Tuesday morning to St. Bernard’s Church for solemn high mass of requiem at nine o’clock. The cortège will afterwards leave for St. Joseph’s where interment in the family plot in St. Thomas parish cemetery.