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Denniston, Marjorie Lora (Ingold) 1925-2019

DENNISTON, INGOLD, HUTCHISON, NELSON, MANCHESTER, ADLEMAN, VERSTEEGH, GORDON, TROYER, SVENDSEN, CASEY

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Date: 7/13/2021 at 21:35:28

Marjorie Lora (Ingold) Denniston
December 07, 1925 - June 18, 2019

Marjorie Lora (Ingold) Denniston was born Dec. 7, 1925, in Bethel Deaconess Hospital in Newton, Kan., to Walter and Lora Hutchison Ingold. She was the granddaughter of recent Swiss immigrants, a Texas Ranger and an Oklahoma homesteader. She excelled in music (singing and base violin), ballet, science and the classics. She graduated from Newton Kansas High School and the College of Emporia, Emporia, Kan., class of 1943. In college she majored in sociology and minored in chemistry, psychology and physical education. She was elected student council [resident, elected to Mu Phi Epsilon (professional music and scholars fraternity) and elected to Who’s Who in American Colleges and Universities. During college, she attended the National Music Camp, Interlochen, Mich., continuing her studies of dance and music, which became important lifelong influences. During World War II, she worked for two summers as a lab technician for Beech Aircraft Company.

Marjorie then worked for three summers as a camp counselor at Cheley Colorado Camps, Estes Park, Colo., where she cherished making lifelong friendships, singing Cheley campfire songs, hiking the beautiful Rocky Mountains and high lakes, drinking from the pure mountain streams, and falling in love with the gorgeous wildflowers, sweet smelling pine trees, quaking aspen trees, and pristine tundra. It was there at Cheley she also met and fell in love with her husband to be, Bryant Paul Denniston, who was also working there and shared her love of music and the mountains. They married Oct. 17, 1948, in the United Presbyterian Church in Newton, Iowa, where Bryant had grown up. There in Newton, they built a home designed by a student of Frank Lloyd Wright, where Marjorie raised their three children and was an amazing seamstress and cook.

Marjorie taught physical education in Emporia, Kan., and Newton, Iowa. She also taught music and math in Newton. She did graduate work in physical education at Drake University in Des Moines. She was elected to the Newton city council, serving 12 years. She and her husband also shared their love of music and the arts with their children, with many music lessons, as well as trips to nearby cities to experience world renowned ballet performances and symphony concerts and to visit art museums.

Marjorie’s church held an important place in her life, throughout her many years where she did countless hours of volunteer work and loved singing in the choir. She was elected and ordained as a Presbyterian Elder, PCUSA, distinguished as the very first woman to be elected as an Elder at her local church in Newton. She was also later elected and ordained as a Presbyterian Deacon in Santa Fe, N.M. Marjorie was elected and served as the moderator of Presbyterian Women in her local churches in Newton and later in Santa Fe, N.M, and moderator for the regional Presbyterian Women organizations of central Iowa and Santa Fe, N.M. She served as the vice moderator of the Presbyterian Women’s organization in both the north central U.S. and the southwestern U.S. She was sent to China and Japan as a representative of Presbyterian Women.

Marjorie and her husband, Bryant, loved their many family car camping and hiking trips, and later ski trips, in Montana, Idaho, Wyoming, New Mexico and other Western states. The two also traveled the world, including to China and Switzerland. Over the years, they made many visits to their beloved Colorado, staying at the YMCA of the Rockies in Estes Park with immediate and extended family members. After her husband’s retirement, they moved to Santa Fe, N.M, and served as volunteers for the Presbyterian Church. There they found a rich new life, filled with music, the opera, art, the unique Santa Fe culture and food, and hiking in the nearby Sangre de Cristo Mountains. They also cherished and were so proud of their children and grandchildren and step-grandson, taking great delight in each one of them. Following the death of her husband, Bryant, Marjorie moved to Durham, N.C. to be closer to much of her family who had settled there. Marjorie died peacefully in her sleep after a long illness May 31, 2019.

Marjorie was preceded in death by her husband, Bryant Denniston; her brother, Robert “Bob” Ingold; her parents, Walter and Lora Hutchison Ingold; her aunt, Marian Hutchison Nelson; and uncles, Milton “Hutchy” and Homer “Hutch” Hutchison; grandfathers, Milton Starr Hutchison and Emil Ingold; grandmothers, Rose Payne Hutchison and Louisa Ingold; and many much enjoyed cousins.

She is survived by her sister, Rosemary Ingold Manchester; and sister-in-law, Ruth Adleman Ingold; by her three children and their spouses: John “Jack” and Lorraine Denniston, Claire and Larry Versteegh, Louise and Douglas Gordon; by grandchildren and step-grandson and their spouses, Mackenzie and Chris Casey, Lora and Jonathan Troyer, Emily and Jon Svendsen, and Vincent and Meg Gordon; by great-grandchildren, William and Troy Casey, Gavin, Levi “Huck” and Evey Troyer,and Milo, Henry and Sally Svendsen. ~ The Newton (IA) Daily News, 18 June 2019.


 

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