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DATE: TUESDAY, June 29, 1993                   TAG: 9306290281
SECTION: VIRGINIA                    PAGE: C-2   EDITION: METRO 
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DATELINE: CHATTANOOGA, TENN.                                 LENGTH: Short

OBIT DENNING, JOHN WALTER JR.

DENNING, John Walter Jr., 90, a resident of Chattanooga, Tenn., since 1937, died Saturday, June 26, 1993, in a Chattanooga, Tenn. hospital. He was born August 5, 1902, in Laurens, S.C. He was a member of the First Baptist Church in Newberry, S.C. He was a 50-year member and a 32nd degree Mason in the Hill City Lodge #603 A.F.&A.M. He was a member of the Alhambra Shrine and the Chattanooga Scottish Rite Society. He retired from Denning Brothers, Inc. as founder and president in 1967. He was a former employee of Caldwell-Sites in Roanoke. He was preceded in death by his parents, John Walter Sr. and Emma Pauline Marchbanks Denning. Survivors include his wife, Elizabeth Brickey Denning; two daughters, Bettye Denning Traylor, Lincolnshire, Ill., Pauline Denning Holley, Chattanooga, Tenn.; six grandchildren; four great-granddaughters; two brothers, Paul Marchbanks Denning, Hixson, Tenn., David Berrie Denning, Asheville, N.C.; one nephew. Graveside services will be held at 2:30 p.m. Tuesday in Sherwood Cemetery in Salem with the Rev. J. Landon Maddox officiating. Masonic cryptside services will be by Melrose Masonic Lodge #139. Arrangements by Oakey's Roanoke Chapel. 


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