Victoria Mann

In Loving Memory Of
Victoria Mann

Victoria Marchant Mann went home to be with the Lord on August 31, 2018 at the age
of 101 years. She was pre-deceased by her husband of 39 years, Hershell “Bud” Mann
and two sisters, Ruth Marchant Wallace and Jeane Marchant Jones, and one
granddaughter, and one niece.  
She is survived by 6 children, Virginia Moreno, John Mann, Victoria Weber, Thenell
Hanggi, Hershell Mann, and Frank Mann.
She also is survived by 22 grandchildren, 53 great-grandchildren, and 16
great-great-grandchildren, 2 nephews, Reece Lewis and John Ralph Mann, 4
great-nephews, 4 great-nieces, 3 great-great nieces and 1 great-great nephew, and 1
great-great-great niece. 
Victoria was born in Berkeley, California on June 21, 1917 to Harris and Ada
Marchant. In 1919, Harris relocated his family to Los Angeles to be near his
parents, Thomas and Anne Victoria Marchant of Ohio, who had permanently settled in
Los Angeles and purchased a beach house at 44 Strand, Hermosa Beach. Thomas served
as city attorney and municipal judge in the 1920’s and 30’s. Victoria spent summers
there and in 1928 she spent the year there and attended Pier Avenue School.
In her youth, Victoria joined the Girl Scouts and Job’s Daughters, and attended the
1932 Olympics at the Memorial Coliseum. She spent many happy holidays at the family
cabin in Pine Cove near Idyllwild, California. 
Victoria married Hershell Mann on December 27, 1935. The couple moved to 44 Strand
in 1938. While living over 80 years in the South Bay, Victoria was active in the
Women’s Club, Republican Women’s Club, the El Redondo chapter of the Daughters of
the American Revolution, and served as President of South School PTA.
In 1970, Victoria received certification as an early childhood educator. With the
help of her daughter Thenell, she opened and directed the Sand Castle Pre-School at
44 Hermosa Avenue. In 1978 she helped open and taught at Voyager’s Christian School
in Huntington Beach and in 1985 was the pre-school director for Community Baptist
Church of Manhattan Beach.
In 1973 Victoria gave her life to Jesus Christ, was baptized, and joined Chapel by
the Sea of Manhattan Beach and started attending Mount Hermon Christian Camp in
Santa Cruz every summer. Much to her joy, twenty-five of her family members have
attended Biola University. 
In 1990 Victoria retired and split her residence to live with her daughter part-time
in Temecula California. While there, she attended Rancho Baptist Church of Temecula,
the Luiseno Chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution, the Republican
Women’s Club, the Christian Women’s club, the Rose Society, the Victorian Tea
Society, and the Genealogical Society.
Victoria was a deeply loving, tremendously generous, faith-filled woman who touched
the lives of all who knew her.

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