Charles Kenneth Irby, Sr., passed from this life on Saturday Morning, December 14th at 7 AM in the Russellville Hospital from complications of a heart attack. He was 78 years of age.
Funeral services will be held Tuesday, December 17, 2013 at 2 PM at Pinkard Funeral Home in Russellville, Alabama with Reverend Chilton Busler officiating.
Burial will follow in Franklin Memory Gardens in Russelville. Visitation will be prior to the service from 12 noon until 2 PM at the funeral home.
C.K. as he was known by friends and business associates was born in Bastop, Louisiana on August 9, 1935.
He was a graduate of Mississippi State University and played on the 1958 and 1959 MSU football team. He was a long time member of the Elks Lodge 820 in Florence and was recently selected to the Mississippi Delta Community College Sports Hall of fame where he began his college football career.
CK’s passions were business and helping those who needed help. He developed many multifamily projects, golf course, fitness center, the nursery business and also helping those with substance abuse issues.
Survivors include his children Cindy Ann Pierce of Lake Jackson, Texas, Ken Irby, Jr., Florence, Alabama, Sarah Beall of Tuscumbia, Alabama, Robert Irby, Tuscumbia, Alabama, and Leslie Chilton of Greensboro, North Carolina. Sisters JoAnn Hughes, Miami, Oklahoma, brothers Emmett Irby and Dan Irby both of Bastop, Louisiana; grandchildren Kyle Pierce, Allison Pierce, Robert Beall, Brian Beall, Charles Kenneth Irby, Mary Kate Beall, Glenn Irby, Jack Irby, Madelyn Irby, Tyler Chilton and Drew Chilton, great-grandchildren, nieces and nephews. He was preceded in death by parents Lenoir and Maude Irby; sister Doilene Akins.
In lieu of flowers donations may be made to the Charles Kenneth Irby Endowed Scholarship in Education at Mississippi State University, PO Box 6149, MS. State, MS 39762 or A New Beginning, a sober living facility for women at 4100 Hatch Blvd. Sheffield, Alabama 35660 or a charity of your choice.
