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

 

 

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The Wright Family

Don's mother,
Florence Wright Dennis

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