Born May 10, 1942, in Missouri, son of the late F.U. and Ethel Stokes Denning, he lived in the Chicago area. A U.S. Army veteran, he was a retired 36-year employee of Xerox.
Survivors include: three sons and one daughter-in-law, David Denning of Addison, Brian Denning of Florida and Kirk and Liz Denning of Las Vegas; one daughter, Jennifer Denning of Addison; four brothers and sisters-in-law, Frank and Maureen Denning and Bill and Carol Denning of the Chicago area, Bobby and Katherine Denning and Robert and Wilma Denning of Sikeston, Mo.; three sisters and two brothers-in-law, Frances and Arnold Schlosser of Arcadia, Mo., Mary and Gary Keltner and Eva Dawson of Terre Haute, Ind.
Services were conducted Aug. 13 at Grove Memorial Chapel.
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