On January 22, 2026, at age 90, our cherished mother, June Irene Manhire of Kingston, Nevada, passed away in Fallon, Nevada, surrounded by her loving family, leaving a void the family cannot fill.
June was born in Fallon, Nevada, to Lois M. Ellis and Ray M. Driggs and was the eldest of ten children. After graduating from Churchill County High School in 1969, she moved to Tonopah, Nevada, where she tended bar and worked for the Bureau of Land Management and the convention center. For many years, she organized and judged events for the annual Jim Butler Days.
Upon retiring from the Bureau of Land Management in Tonopah, she moved to Kingston, Nevada, and served on the Kingston Town Board for many years. June enjoyed selling tickets at the annual town picnic, off-roading with Mac in his Jeep, and taking road trips. She was instrumental in establishing the geographic center of the state of Nevada.
June is preceded in death by her longtime companion, Emmet O’Kane McKenzie “Mac,” her grandson Eric K. Redding, and his daughter Samarra. She is survived by her six children: Suellen Lew, Mary Kay Springer, April Elaine Pendarvis, Catherine May Pendarvis Evans, Virginia Ann Pendarvis, and Wilson Edward Pendarvis; four grandchildren; and four great-grandchildren.
She will be interred next to Mac in the town cemetery in Kingston, Nevada.
No services are planned.
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