Nannette Manning West

Bogart, GA - Nannette Manning West, 95, died July 7, 2011.
The daughter of the late F. Claude Manning and Rosie Cooper Manning, she was born February 17, 1916 and was raised in Knoxville, TN. She graduated from the University of Tennessee and the Columbia University Library School in New York City. In 1946, she married Herbert J. West, Jr., of Atlanta, who preceded her in death in 1982. She met her husband in Casablanca at the end of World War II during which she served in the American Red Cross and he served as a Captain in the Army Airways Communications Service. They lived in Atlanta until 1975 when they moved to Ellijay, GA. In 1996, she moved back to Atlanta, before moving to St. Mary's Highland Hills in Athens in 2002.
Nannette spent many years in volunteer church work at First United Methodist Church of Ellijay, and First Presbyterian Church and Northwest Presbyterian Church in Atlanta. She was also active in the Junior League of Atlanta, the Gilmer County Reading program, the Gilmer Arts Council (now the Gilmer Arts & Heritage Association), and the North Georgia Mountain Crisis Network.
She was preceded in death by her three brothers, F. Claude Manning, Jr., Robert C. Manning, and Edward T. Manning. She is survived by her son, Herbert J. West, and daughter-in-law, Myrna Adams West, of Bogart; sisters-in-law Florence Chapin Manning of Edmonds, WA, and Carter Keller Manning of Sandy Springs, GA; one niece and three nephews; and several grandnieces, grandnephews, great-grandnieces, and great-grandnephews.
Memorial services will be held later in Athens, GA at Highland Hills and in Ellijay, GA; cremated remains will be interred at Westview Cemetery in Atlanta.
In lieu of flowers, please donate to the St. Mary's Hospice House, P. O. Box 6588, Athens, GA 30604, or to the Gilmer Arts and Heritage Association, 207 Dalton Street, Ellijay, GA 30540.
Lord and Stephens, WEST, Bogart, GA, is in charge of arrangements.