ALICE DENNY, 75, REGISTERED NURSE, DEVOTED TO PEOPLE GRANDMA OF 17 REMEMBERED AS WARM, A GOOD LISTENER.Byline: HOLLY J. ANDRES Staff Writer Don't give up and don't quit was advice that retired registered nurse and Woodland Hills resident of 38 years Alice Denny followed during her lifetime. Denny died June 17 from heart and kidney failure kidney failure or renal failure Partial or complete loss of kidney function. Acute failure causes reduced urine output and blood chemical imbalance, including uremia. Most patients recover within six weeks. following a long illness in Woodland Hills. She was 75. ``She was happy, always happy. Everybody liked her. Our friends liked her,'' said daughter Nancy Fletcher. ``She was never one to say `why me?' when she was ill. She was the strongest fighter I've ever known.'' ``Made a difference in someone's life'' is how Fletcher and her sister, Kathryn Krenz, say their mother would want to be remembered. Denny's strong Christian faith -- she was a longtime member of a Wednesday night prayer group -- guided her life. Denny was a good listener and offered prayer help to a wide circle of friends, said her daughters. ``She was loving, fun-loving and mothering. She liked caring for people,'' said Krenz. ``She was a people person. She had lots of people who were her best friends. What I learned from her is to treasure people. That was her life.'' Alice Nora O'Shaughnessy was born April 7, 1931, in a farmhouse in Anthon, Iowa Anthon is a city in Woodbury County in the U.S. state of Iowa. It is part of the Sioux City/Iowa/Nebraska/South Dakota Metropolitan Statistical Area. The population was 649 at the 2000 census. . She was the seventh of 10 children born to Irish immigrants from Limerick. She graduated in 1953 from Briar briar: see brier. Cliff College Hulme Cliff College was established by Henry Grattan Guinness in 1883 following the success of Harley College, which had out grown its site in Bromley-by-Bow. It was called Hulme Cliff College in honour of the Elizabeth Hulme, who gave Guinness "Cliff House" in Curbar, Derbyshire, in Sioux City, Iowa <noinclude></noinclude> Sioux City (IPA: [su: 'sɪti]) is a city located in northwest Iowa in the United States. As of the 2000 census, the city had a total population of 85,013. , with a bachelor's of science degree in nursing. Following the footsteps of her sisters, she moved to California in 1954 where she began her nursing career at the Veterans Administration in Westwood. ``We met on a blind date on June 2, 1955. A close friend of mine was dating one of the nurses who she lived with and we were set up. We found out that we both loved seeing a movie over and over but we went to the beach for our first date,'' said husband Richard Denny. ``She was very warm and just had a very generous nature. I proposed to her the day after Thanksgiving and we were married on Feb. 11, 1956.'' Denny worked as a delivery room nurse at St. John's Hospital St. John's Hospital may refer to: In the United Kingdom:
Denny's pastimes over the years included reading, golf, quilting quilting, form of needlework, almost always created by women, most of them anonymous, in which two layers of fabric on either side of an interlining (batting) are sewn together, usually with a pattern of back or running (quilting) stitches that hold the layers and enjoying vacations in Carmel. She loved family reunions, especially those during Christmas. Trivia facts in her family's memory treasure chest are that Alice O'Shaughnessy went to school in a one-room schoolhouse and that she was the first runner-up in the 1952 ``Miss Sioux City Sue'' pageant. Denny is survived by her husband of 50 years, Richard Denny; her children, John Denny, Kathryn Krenz, Derrick Denny and Nancy Fletcher; and 17 grandchildren. A memorial service was held Friday at The Church at Rocky Peak in Chatsworth. Denny is buried at Oakwood Memorial Park in Chatsworth. Donations in her memory can be sent to the Alice Denny Nursing Memorial Fund, c/o Canoga Park Foursquare Church, Hope Chapel of the Valley, 7930 Mason Ave., Winnetka, CA 91306. holly.andres(at)dailynews.com (818) 713-3708 CAPTION(S): photo Photo: DENNY |
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