Alice Hortense Thornton Denning

Mrs. Alice Hortense Thornton Denning, 91, formerly of the Grantham Community, died Tuesday at the home of her daughter in Emerald Isle.

A native of Wayne County, she was the daughter of the late Marshall E. Thornton and Ammy Lewis Thornton and was the widow of Andrew Washington “Wash” Denning. Mrs. Denning was a farm owner in the Grantham Community and was a member of Jordan’s Chapel Baptist Church. She was a 50 year member of the Newton Grove Chapter #267 Order of the Easter Star.

Funeral services will be Saturday at 3:00 p.m. at Seymour Funeral Home Chapel with Rev. Henry Dollar and Rev. Freddie Braswell officiating. Burial will follow in Wayne Memorial Park.

Mrs. Denning is survived by her children, Alvis Wilson Denning and wife Mary Lou Hill Denning of Raleigh, Dartha (Dot) Ann Denning Ingram and husband Cedric Ingram of Emerald Isle, Everette Wayne Denning and wife Peggy Wynne Denning of Cary, Mary Alice Denning Jordan and husband H. Leland Jordan of Mount Olive, David Dixon Denning of Tampa, FL and Margaret Jean Denning Woodlief and husband Jones D. Woodlief of Roswell, GA; her sister, Handsford Ricks of Goldsboro; nine grandchildren and fourteen great-grandchildren.

She was preceded in death by three brothers, Edwin, Durwood, and Guy Thornton and two sisters, Mildred Thornton Williams and Margueritte Thornton Blackmon.

Flowers are welcome or memorials may be made to the Home Health and Hospice Care, Attn: Sheila Roce, P.O. Box 190, Maysville, NC 28555.

The family will receive friends Saturday from 2:00 – 3:00 p.m. at Seymour Funeral Home.