Denton, Sara P., 1924-

Sara Denton was born November 12, 1924 in Paducah, Kentucky into a family of readers and thinkers. When the opportunity arose, at 18 years of age, to move to Washington, D.C. to work in the Signal Corps, she seized the opportunity. From the vantage point of her apartment, she could see the Secret Service assisting Franklin D. Roosevelt into his limousine at the back door of the White House. His polio was hidden from the public but this diversion allowed Sara and her friends to greet and be greeted by their hero. While in D.C., Denton worked for General Hayes and one day struck up a conversation with a young soldier, Ralph Denton. Soon, they married and moved to his home state, Nevada.

After several years in Elko, Nevada, Denton and her family moved to Las Vegas, Nevada where she worked in the campaigns of Grant Sawyer, Howard Cannon, and Alan Bible. The family relocated to Boulder City, Nevada so the children could grow up in a caring community with good schools. Denton was one of the founders of Boulder City’s most successful philanthropic fundraisers, Art in the Park.