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Denning, Teresa Jones, 1912-2006

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Teresa Jones Denning was born March 29, 1912 in Overton, Nevada. She grew up living on a farm and experienced the 1919 flu epidemic. She graduated from Moapa Valley High School in 1929. Denning met her husband, Robert, at a dance in the newly-opened Mormon Church in Las Vegas, Nevada in 1934. They married the year after. Denning’s career revolved around being a bookkeeper and an insurance agent. She passed away September 14, 2006.