Personal Life
Manning's wife Veronica, known as Vera, died of a heart attack on 11 November 1986, aged 57. His son Bernard Jr. had moved out of the family home so Manning moved back in with his mother. His brother John had died in 1944 at the Battle of Arnhem, while in 1995 his elderly mother and his two remaining brothers Jackie and Frank also died.
Manning was a lifelong Manchester City F.C. supporter.
Manning was the subject of This Is Your Life on 27 November 1991.
For many of his later years, Manning was a Teetotaler and a diabetic. Admitted two weeks earlier for a kidney complaint, Manning died in North Manchester General Hospital at 3:10 pm on Monday, 18 June 2007 at the age of 76. He wrote his own eulogy which appeared as an obituary in the Daily Mail two days later.
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