DON DENNIS AND ANN (MILLER) DENNIS

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John Levi Dennis and his father
William A. Dennis, Scottsville, KY
(around 1905)


John Levi and Mattie Dennis


Florence, Leo, Mattie, Jr. Hancock, Elizabeth, John Levi...Front: Frank, Don, Johnnie


Leo, John, Mattie, Elizabeth, Loraine Dennis


Miles and Arlene Rumgay, Clara,
Earl and Sue Dennis


Bob and Clara Dennis

 


Liz, Otis, Mattie, John, Loraine, Leo Dennis

 


Miles and Arlie Rumgay, Marvin Dennis,  Clara Dennis, Sue (Earl's wife), John Levi, Elizabeth McCarthy, Mattie, Laura Jackson, Golia Rather, Leo behind.  Front:  Jr. Hancock and Don, Sue's little girl, Frank, John Hancock, Florence Dennis


Mattie and John Levi Dennis


Mattie and John Levi Dennis, 50th Anniv.

 


Possibly Mattie's Sisters??
 

 


?, Laura Jackson, John Levi.
Laura was Johns sister.


Otis (Toad) Lee Dennis


Clara Guy Dennis


Bob Dennis


Don in NY

 


Don Dennis, NY

 


Don Dennis, NY


Don Dennis,  CO


Florence and Don Dennis


Don Dennis, Fowler, CO


Florence and Leo Dennis

 

 


John Levi and Mattie Pearl Newman Dennis on their 50th Wedding Anniversary.


1940, Elizabeth, Otis (Toad), Mattie, John, Loraine, Leo Dennis


 

(The following was hand written by Florence Dennis and is
not totally correct we see,  as we get some true
research on the family.  We will correct this as we can.
See new information at Dennis Family Genealogy.)

Levi Dennis came from Tennessee to Kentucky. 

His son, William A, born 1845 married

Margaret (Margrete) Richardson

Levi had two daughters, Polly Dennis and Jane Lewis.
See their death certificates)

 

William, 1845, had several children:
Charles
Twins Alie and Lilly (Lilly died as a baby).
Robert who married Clara Guy,
Robert died in Fowler, CO May 14, 1948.
Matt
William
Laura, pictured above
John Levi, who was Don's grandfather.  

 

The John Levi Dennis family moved to Colorado about 1918.

JOHN LEVI DENNIS
2/27/1884 - 12/19/1961 (from his newspaper obit)

died in Fowler,CO. - married (1907)
Mattie Pearl Newman b:  11-23-1889   d: 5-1-1975. 
                                                             

Children:     Karie Leo Dennis, 1-19-1908 to 6-5-1975.
                     Loraine Dennis,       9-16-1910 d 10-2-67
                     Otis Lee Dennis  3-25-1913 to 2-1-1942
                     Floy Elizabeth Dennis 7-3-1916 to 4-18-2003

Leo married Florence Ione Wright (b 10-13-17 d 4-8-2008) on 10-18-1938.   They lived first in Pueblo, CO, then spent the war years in New York, moving back to Fowler, CO in 1946.  They had one son, Donald.

Donald married Ann Miller in 1961 and they had four children,
Scott, Steve, Teena and Todd.

Loraine married Carrol J. Andrews on Christmas Day, 1934.  They were living in San Francisco when she died of cancer in 1968.   They had no children. 

Otis Lee (known as Toad) married Lilly Dell Harriman.  They had one child, Dolores Ann Dennis.  They were divorced before he joined the navy at the start of  WWII.   He was at Pearl Harbor and nearly killed.   He was a radioman off the air craft carrier USS Enterprise.  He was lost at sea at Kwajalein.  (See U.S.S. Dennis, on this site)

Dolores Ann became a Christensen when adopted by her mother's new husband...  Dolores married Jimmie Wilcox who died of cancer in 1971.  She died young,  in 1990.

Elizabeth (Liz) married Elmer (Junior) C. Hancock in 1938.  Their children were John Elmer Hancock, and Franklin Dennis Hancock.   Elmer was killed in a gun accident.   Elizabeth then married John McCarthy.  Their children were Dorothy Loraine McCarthy, known as Lori, and twins, Judith Maurene and Joan Corine McCarthy, known as Judi and Joni.   Floy Elizabeth Dennis McCarthy died on April 18, 2003.

 


Joni and family.


Judi and family.


Leo Dennis


Leo with grandsons, Scott and Steve Dennis


Leo Dennis Obit

 

 


The Wright Family


Don's mother,
Florence Wright Dennis

John Charles Fremont Wright and Elizabeth (called Libby) Wright had five sons, Charles (a photographer in Manitou), Ralph, Arthur Fremont, Curtis and James.   Arthur Fremont Wright is Florence's father, Don's maternal grandfather.

 


Arthur Wright, Florence's father. 
 

move to:  Arthur Wright

 


1946 Chief Petty Officer
Scotty Wright

Scottys wife, Dotty
1946

1942 Scotty in
Austraila

Scotty and Dotty with
their kids, Bill
and Connie.

Dotty Wright
   
Scotty Wright

Scotty/Dotty

Florence and Leo Apr 75
 
Florence, Grandma Wright
 and Barb
 
       

 


 

 


Scotty and Dotty with Don, 2006

Click for:  Scotty Wright Family


Don and his mother, Florence, 2006


Florence and Jim Turner

 


Jim's daughter, Ruth, husband George,
James and Sarah Stephan

 


Jim Turner Obit



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DON DENNIS AND ANN (MILLER) DENNIS

 FAMILY WEBSITE 

 

USS Dennis

USS Fogg 

 

Fowler Menu

 

Don's Army Service

Delbert Miller

POW  WWII  Ancestors   "It All Began"  
La Veta, CO  Pottery  Lefse  "....And an Electric Chair"

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