Roanoke Times
Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.
DATE: SATURDAY, November 6, 1993 TAG: 9311080170
SECTION: VIRGINIA PAGE: B2 EDITION: METRO
SOURCE: Blue Ridge
DATELINE: LENGTH: Short
OBIT-DENNEY, ELBERT MACK
DENNEY, Elbert Mack, 98, of Blue Ridge, Va., and formerly of Dublin, Va.,
passed away on Thursday, November 4, 1993. He lived with his daughter and
son-in-law, Brenda and Donald Williams, and his grandsons, Jonathan and Corey,
who spent time with him and always made him smile. Mr. Denny was born in North
Carolina on October 20, 1895. He was in the United States Navy during WWI and
served on one of the first submarines ever to be used in the United States. He
and his family moved to West Virginia and he was an electrician in the coal
mines for 40 years until his retirement. He was preceded in death by his wife,
Irene Denny, and by one son, Buford Denny. He will be very much missed by his
family and friends. Surviving are three daughters, Ruth Pennington, Bland,
Cora Ann Wojciechouski, Dublin, Betty Morris, Richmond; three daughters and
sons-in-law, Brenda and Donald Williams, Blue Ridge, Dorothy and Dick Hayes,
Pulaski, Emma Lee and Donald Nimmer, Florida; one son, John Denny of Florida;
three sons and daughters-in-law, William and Nellie Denny of Florida, Elbert
and Betty Denny Jr., Hayes, Va., Donley and Barbara Denny of Maryland; 26
grandchildren; 36 great-grandchildren; and five great-great-grandchildren.
Funeral services will be held Sunday at 2 p.m. from the Stevens Funeral
Chapel, Pulaski, Va., with Pastor Philip Ayers officiating. Burial will follow
in the Thornspring Cemetery, Pulaski County. Visiting will be Saturday evening
at Stevens Funeral Home, Pulaski, where the family will receive friends from 7
to 9 p.m. Arrangements by Stevens Funeral Home, Inc., Pulaski, Va.
by CNB