Denny L. Day
Denny L. Day, age 83, of Kearney, passed away Tuesday, February 11, 2025, at Brookestone Gardens Assisted Living in Kearney. A Memorial Mass was held Tuesday, February 18, 2025, at St. James Catholic Church in Kearney. Interment followed at Riverside Cemetery in Gibbon.
Memorials are suggested to the family for future designation. Condolences may be shared online at www.osrfh. com. Services are entrusted to O’Brien Straatmann Redinger Funeral and Cremation Services.
Denny was born in Kearney on July 2, 1941, to Dewey and Laura (Kirk) Day. He graduated from Kearney Longfellow High School in 1959 where he was active in FFA. On January 27, 1962, he married Donna Mae Bond. They had two children, Linda Marie and Larry Eugene. Denny and Donna together managed a variety of crops and livestock. Denny did custom farm work, including cutting, bailing and grinding hay in the area.
Denny and Donna divorced in 1981. In August of 1989, he was united in marriage to Sandie Weber. Denny remained on the farm continuing his work there. When the hay season was over, he would pick up work for the winter months at area businesses, including Pioneer Seeds, the Turkey Plant, Fort Kearny Gas Station and the COOP. Denny was a CBer and was always interested in flying. He received his private pilot license in the 80’s and flew for the parachute team at the Minden Airport. He loved taking people for rides in his plane. Besides his passion for airplanes, he also loved horses and motorcycles. Most of all, he loved spending time with his family and grandkids.
He also enjoyed saving young wildlife and livestock. He raised many raccoons, a fawn, rabbits and orphaned lambs and calves. He loved farm life and would help anybody if they needed help. He worked at Caldwell’s and worked 25 years at L & S Industries as a maintenance worker fixing machines. He enjoyed his work there and the people. He retired in December of 2011. Shortly after that, he was diagnosed with Parkinson’s Disease and later Alzheimer’s. He spent the next five years in a nursing home, most recently at Brookestone Gardens. He will be missed by many.
Left to cherish his memory are his wife, Sandie (Weber) Day; daughter, Linda Manfull and her husband, Ray; grandchildren, Taylor Manfull-Dukes and her husband, Brian, and Steven Manfull and his wife, Rachael Lydon; step-daughter, Christine Weber-Diaz; and many extended family members and friends.
He was preceded in death by his parents; son, Larry Day; step-son, Patrick Weber; sisters, Zelda Burvanis, Osa Kelsey, Ida Jayne Luther, Corinne Olmsted and Janice Gentry; and brothers, Duane Day and Forrest Day.