F. EVELYN DENISON
MANKATO – Mankato resident Florence Evelyn Denison, 95, died Sunday, Dec. 9, 2001, at Immanuel St. Joseph's Hospital in Mankato, Mn. Memorial services are 1:00 p.m. Saturday at First Presbyterian Church in Mankato, with private burial services in Glenwood Cemetery in Mankato. Visitation is 4 to 7 p.m. Friday at Landkamer's Johnson-Boman Funeral Home and continues one hour before services Saturday at the church. Memorials are preferred to First Presbyterian Church.
Mrs. Denison was born May 12, 1906, to Richard and Mary (Barney) Thornson at Marshall, MN. She was a 1924 graduate of Pipestone High School and a 1926 graduate of McPhail School of Drama in Minneapolis. She married H. Warren Denison Nov. 24, 1926. They moved to Mankato in 1940, where they operated a sporting goods store. In 1949, she began helping her husband and his business partner develop the Johnson Reel. Active in many community programs, she helped establish the first Mankato Rehab Auxiliary Thrift Shop and served as membership chairman of the Rehab Board for many years. She was involved in the Mankato Hot Meals program and the local chapter of AARP, was a charter member and historian of Mankato Area Foundation, and was a member of Glenwood Cemetery Board. A member of First Presbyterian Church, she participated in Mary Martha Circle, Mankato Symphony Guild, and Mankato Elk Lodge Does.
Mrs. Denison is survived by three daughters, Mary Evelyn and her husband, Dr. William Nelson of Mankato; Ardeth Louise and her husband, Robert Volk of Plymouth, and Barbara Florence O'Connor of Graysonville, MD, 13 grandchildren and 13 great-grandchildren. She was preceded in death by her husband, one son William, five sisters, and nieces and nephews.
-- Mankato Free Press, Dec. 13, 2001
MANKATO – Mankato resident Florence Evelyn Denison, 95, died Sunday, Dec. 9, 2001, at Immanuel St. Joseph's Hospital in Mankato, Mn. Memorial services are 1:00 p.m. Saturday at First Presbyterian Church in Mankato, with private burial services in Glenwood Cemetery in Mankato. Visitation is 4 to 7 p.m. Friday at Landkamer's Johnson-Boman Funeral Home and continues one hour before services Saturday at the church. Memorials are preferred to First Presbyterian Church.
Mrs. Denison was born May 12, 1906, to Richard and Mary (Barney) Thornson at Marshall, MN. She was a 1924 graduate of Pipestone High School and a 1926 graduate of McPhail School of Drama in Minneapolis. She married H. Warren Denison Nov. 24, 1926. They moved to Mankato in 1940, where they operated a sporting goods store. In 1949, she began helping her husband and his business partner develop the Johnson Reel. Active in many community programs, she helped establish the first Mankato Rehab Auxiliary Thrift Shop and served as membership chairman of the Rehab Board for many years. She was involved in the Mankato Hot Meals program and the local chapter of AARP, was a charter member and historian of Mankato Area Foundation, and was a member of Glenwood Cemetery Board. A member of First Presbyterian Church, she participated in Mary Martha Circle, Mankato Symphony Guild, and Mankato Elk Lodge Does.
Mrs. Denison is survived by three daughters, Mary Evelyn and her husband, Dr. William Nelson of Mankato; Ardeth Louise and her husband, Robert Volk of Plymouth, and Barbara Florence O'Connor of Graysonville, MD, 13 grandchildren and 13 great-grandchildren. She was preceded in death by her husband, one son William, five sisters, and nieces and nephews.
-- Mankato Free Press, Dec. 13, 2001
F. EVELYN DENISON
MANKATO – Mankato resident Florence Evelyn Denison, 95, died Sunday, Dec. 9, 2001, at Immanuel St. Joseph's Hospital in Mankato, Mn. Memorial services are 1:00 p.m. Saturday at First Presbyterian Church in Mankato, with private burial services in Glenwood Cemetery in Mankato. Visitation is 4 to 7 p.m. Friday at Landkamer's Johnson-Boman Funeral Home and continues one hour before services Saturday at the church. Memorials are preferred to First Presbyterian Church.
Mrs. Denison was born May 12, 1906, to Richard and Mary (Barney) Thornson at Marshall, MN. She was a 1924 graduate of Pipestone High School and a 1926 graduate of McPhail School of Drama in Minneapolis. She married H. Warren Denison Nov. 24, 1926. They moved to Mankato in 1940, where they operated a sporting goods store. In 1949, she began helping her husband and his business partner develop the Johnson Reel. Active in many community programs, she helped establish the first Mankato Rehab Auxiliary Thrift Shop and served as membership chairman of the Rehab Board for many years. She was involved in the Mankato Hot Meals program and the local chapter of AARP, was a charter member and historian of Mankato Area Foundation, and was a member of Glenwood Cemetery Board. A member of First Presbyterian Church, she participated in Mary Martha Circle, Mankato Symphony Guild, and Mankato Elk Lodge Does.
Mrs. Denison is survived by three daughters, Mary Evelyn and her husband, Dr. William Nelson of Mankato; Ardeth Louise and her husband, Robert Volk of Plymouth, and Barbara Florence O'Connor of Graysonville, MD, 13 grandchildren and 13 great-grandchildren. She was preceded in death by her husband, one son William, five sisters, and nieces and nephews.
-- Mankato Free Press, Dec. 13, 2001
MANKATO – Mankato resident Florence Evelyn Denison, 95, died Sunday, Dec. 9, 2001, at Immanuel St. Joseph's Hospital in Mankato, Mn. Memorial services are 1:00 p.m. Saturday at First Presbyterian Church in Mankato, with private burial services in Glenwood Cemetery in Mankato. Visitation is 4 to 7 p.m. Friday at Landkamer's Johnson-Boman Funeral Home and continues one hour before services Saturday at the church. Memorials are preferred to First Presbyterian Church.
Mrs. Denison was born May 12, 1906, to Richard and Mary (Barney) Thornson at Marshall, MN. She was a 1924 graduate of Pipestone High School and a 1926 graduate of McPhail School of Drama in Minneapolis. She married H. Warren Denison Nov. 24, 1926. They moved to Mankato in 1940, where they operated a sporting goods store. In 1949, she began helping her husband and his business partner develop the Johnson Reel. Active in many community programs, she helped establish the first Mankato Rehab Auxiliary Thrift Shop and served as membership chairman of the Rehab Board for many years. She was involved in the Mankato Hot Meals program and the local chapter of AARP, was a charter member and historian of Mankato Area Foundation, and was a member of Glenwood Cemetery Board. A member of First Presbyterian Church, she participated in Mary Martha Circle, Mankato Symphony Guild, and Mankato Elk Lodge Does.
Mrs. Denison is survived by three daughters, Mary Evelyn and her husband, Dr. William Nelson of Mankato; Ardeth Louise and her husband, Robert Volk of Plymouth, and Barbara Florence O'Connor of Graysonville, MD, 13 grandchildren and 13 great-grandchildren. She was preceded in death by her husband, one son William, five sisters, and nieces and nephews.
-- Mankato Free Press, Dec. 13, 2001
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