February 05, 1944 - December 24, 2020
The graveside services celebrating and honoring the life of Gary Ray Manley, 76, of Billings, will be held 2:00 P.M. December 29, 2020 in the Union Cemetery, Billings, Oklahoma, with Pastor Floyd Westfall officiating. Services are under the direction of Brown-Cummings Funeral Home.
Gary was born February 5, 1944 to Elmo and Mary Manley in Ponca City, Oklahoma and passed from this life to his Heavenly home on December 24, 2020 after a brief battle with Cancer, in Enid, Oklahoma.
Gary was a farmer/rancher for twenty years and also worked in the oil field as a Derrick hand, advancing to Driller, and later becoming a Pumper in the Midco Hills. In 1982, he was elected Noble County Commissioner for District One, and served as an elected official until his retirement in 2002. Gary and Marilyn were joined in marriage March 20, 1991. He was also a reserve deputy for the Noble County Sheriff’s Department. After his retirement he served on the Billings Town Board.
Gary became a Master Mason on March 16, 2001, with the Perry Masonic Lodge #78. He held several offices in the Lodge including being Worshipful Master. Gary was also a member of the Scottish Rite in Guthrie, and a Shriner with the India Shrines in Oklahoma City. He made several van trips taking kids from Oklahoma to the Shrine’s Hospital in Shreveport, Louisiana. He as a member of the First Baptist Church in Billings. He was also a member of the 101 Ranch Oldtimers and the Marland Roundup Club.
Gary enjoyed traveling, spending time with friends and family, watching old westerns, and wood carving. Gary attended several wood carving seminars in Texas and Colorado where he won numerous ribbons, prizes and best of class in the novice division in Texas Woodcarver’s Guild.
In addition to his wife Marilyn, Gary is survived by his four children, Darin Manley, of Enid, Kristi Manley, of Perry, Bob Park and his wife Rita, of Perry, and Todd Park, of Stillwater; his grandchildren, Jake Manley, of Stillwater, Sara Manley, of Oklahoma City, Dakota Rahn, Rachael Rahn, Chaz Polifka, Chayse Polifika, Rebecca Houghton and her husband Andrew, all of Perry; two sisters, Regona Klinger and her husband Jack, of Tonkawa, Kimbra Dewbre and her husband Kenneth, of Norman; one brother Dusky Manley and his wife Glenda, of Peidmont, one brother-in-law Bob Burnham and his wife Debbie, of Broken Arrow; numerous nieces and nephews and cousins.
He was preceded in death by his parents, Elmo and Mary Manley, and two nephews, Doug Alan Klinger, and Scott Manley, and ones siter-in-law, Yvonne Ashby.
In lieu of flowers, please consider a memorial donation to Shriner’s Hospital with Brown-Cummings Funeral Home serving as custodian of the funds.
Condolences may be made to the family online at www.Brown-Cummings.com. As one of Oklahomaʼs oldest single family owned and operated providers of funerals and cremations, Brown-Cummings is the name families have turned to for generations. They fully understand the honor and responsibility entrusted to them to preserve the story of oneʼs life. Visit 400 W. Maple, Enid, OK 73701. Call: (580) 237-5432.
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