Nancy Manning was daughter of former LO football coach John
Manning
Morgan Hill – A former Morgan Hill resident and Live Oak High School graduate was killed Tuesday morning when she was hit by a car in Madison Heights, Mich.
Nancy Manning, 39, daughter of former Morgan Hill residents John and Linda Manning, was “beloved by everybody,” according to Jan Hagemann, Nancy’s friend.
John is a former Live Oak High football coach; Linda is a retired Morgan Hill Unified School District teacher. They now live in South Lake Tahoe and Palm Desert.
Family was important to Nancy, Hagemann said. Her two sisters, Michele Fournier and Kristin Manning, were not close by in a physical sense, but close emotionally.
Nancy graduated from Live Oak in 1985, Gavilan College in 1987 and then attended Saint Mary’s College in Moraga. She graduated with a degree in communications in 1989.
She worked at the Veteran’s Administration in Palo Alto before moving to Michigan in 1998.
Kim Gallego, who went to school with Nancy from kindergarten through high school, described her as someone who was good to her friends.
“She even tried to teach me how to play the piano, but that didn’t work,” Gallego laughed. “She had an infectious smile and the ability to put anybody at ease. She was very devoted to family and friends.”
Morgan Hill artist Bob Friemark, a close friend of the family, wrote, “Everybody who met this young woman was impressed by her thoughtfulness, her beauty, her resolve and her indomitable courage; there is no lesson to be learned here, this is just a senseless loss, and we are all moved, moved deeply. Nancy will always live as a lovely human being, and we are all rewarded to have known her.”
Friends are invited to a memorial for Nancy on Nov. 4 at 2pm at Guglielmo Winery. Donations may be made in Nancy’s memory to Easter Seal Center of Sacramento, 3206 Hurley Way, Sacramento, Calif., 95864.
Marilyn Dubil covers education and law enforcement for The Times. Reach her at (408) 779-4106 ext. 202 or at
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