MANZIANO, DR. CLARENCE F. Services for Dr. Clarence F. Manziano, 89, a veterinarian who broke barriers for minorities practicing in his field and founded of the Jersey City Animal Clinic, was held Nov. 15 at St. Michael’s Church, Long Branch. He died Nov. 10. He lived in Allenhurst before moving to Singer Island, Fla. He testified before the New Jersey Legislature and was responsible for passage of the “Manziano Act,” which made it possible for veterinarians of Italian and Jewish descent to sit for the veterinary exam in New Jersey. Among his many accomplishments, he worked as senior veterinarian for the Mexican American Foot and Mouth Commission, and was the U.S. delegate for the United Nations Commission on Foot and Mouth Disease. Manziano worked as a field veterinarian for the U.S. Department of Agriculture in Delaware and Maryland until 1952, taking the post of veterinary epidemiologist for the New Jersey State Department of Health. He uncovered the transmission of the disease Psittacosis from an aviary of 5,000 birds to dairy cows and humans. He founded the Jersey City Animal Clinic and the Colts Neck Animal Clinic, working with his late brother, Dr. John Manziano, and his daughter, Rosemary, who carries on the practice in Colts Neck. The Jersey City clinic is now the Jersey City Animal Hospital. Survivors include three daughters, Theresa Santoro, and her husband Robert, Lisa Krenkel, and her husband David, and Dr. Rosemary Manziano; a son, Clarence F. Manziano Jr.; a sister, Delores Sullivan; and seven grandchildren, Stefano, Samantha, Alexandra, William, Alex, Elizabeth and George.