Lenor Cecil (Manny) Irby
1925 - 2023
Lenor Cecil (Manny) Irby, age 97, joined her Savior on December 5, 2022, at the Phillips County Hospital in Phillipsburg, Kansas.
She was the third child born June 7, 1925, to Aldey and Evelyn (Saindon) Manny on the family farm three miles south of Bogue, Kansas. Lenor loved the Lord, her family, and playing cards.
In her youth, she preferred to be outdoors milking cows, doing farm chores, running races, and competing in sports. Even as a mother, she could outrace her teenage daughter and friends. Lenor lived a typical life on the plains attending a one-room school two miles from her home. She weathered the dust bowl, hard work, butchering chickens and hogs, pestilences, skinning animals for their furs, cold winter nights, etc. And yet, she always looked back on it fondly.
Lenor married her childhood sweetheart, Harold Irby, in Damar on February 17, 1944. The couple was blessed with nine children.
She wore many hats: mom, postmaster, drug store employee, grandmother, daycare provider, great-grandmother, great-great-grandmother, cheerleader, and so many more. Except for a short time spent in Texas and Colorado, Lenor lived her entire life at the east end of Bogue, where all nine children were raised.
Lenor was predeceased by her husband Harold; parents Aldey and Evelyn Manny; five siblings: Walter Manny, Orville Manny, Marie Dunning, Berneda Voss, and Irene Smith; daughters Iona DeLaney, Gaylene Stagner, and Luana Croomes; and grandson Darren Irby (son of Roger and Martha).
Lenor is survived by her sisters Aldea Webb of Sparks, Nevada, Deloris Colbert (Gerald) of Sun City West, Ariz., and Ruby Jennings (Gary passed away, March 22, 2023) of Salina, Kansas; children Roger Irby (Martha) of Commerce City, Colo., Ronald Irby (Marcia) of Gainesville, Fla., Norma “Jeannie” Taylor (Fred) of Aurora, Colo., Randal Irby (Susan) of Soddy-Daisy, Tenn., Leroy “Allen” Irby of Pflugerville, Texas, and Kevin Irby (Nanci) of Goodyear, Ariz.; sons-in-law Bob DeLaney and Burl Croomes; 18 grandchildren; 27 great-grandchildren; and four great-great-grandchildren.
A Memorial Service was held Saturday, June 3, 2023, at the United Methodist Church, Bogue. Burial was in Wildhorse Twp Cemetery in rural Bogue.
Memorials are suggested to the Bogue United Methodist Church and may be sent in care of Stinemetz Funeral Home, 522 Pomeroy Avenue, Hill City, Kansas 67642.
