A Mississippi Genealogy & History Collection
William Lyman Denton passed away on Friday, December 3, 2004, in Houston, Texas.
Will grew up in rural Forrest County in the Brooklyn community. He graduated from Forrest County Agricultural High School in 1959. While there, he played football and made the state all-star football team his senior year. Will attended Perkinston Junior College for two years before transferring to the University of Mississippi. He graduated from law school in 1965 and opened a small law office in Hattiesburg.
Will served in the J.A.G. office of the Air Force for three years, including one tour of duty in Vietnam. In March of 1969, Will opened his law office in Biloxi. From his roots, he always associated with the working people and spent the majority of his life serving his clients. His love for the outdoors is well known. At every opportunity he could be found at his hunting camp surrounded with fellow hunters or fishing in the Gulf. Will loved life to the fullest and he will be remembered as a man that never gave up.
He is preceded in death by his parents, W.R. and Virginia Denton.
He is survived by his wife of 34 years, Lucy, his four children that were his proudest achievements: Jack, Walt, Dawn and Drew; also, his beloved daughter-in-law, Courtney, his brother, Pete Denton of Brooklyn, and two sisters: Beth Sessions of Birmingham, Alabama and Denne Howard of Rancho Mirage, California.
Visitation will be Monday, December 6, 2004, from 6 to 9 p.m. at the Howard Avenue Chapel of Bradford-O'Keefe Funeral Homes in Biloxi. Funeral services will be held Tuesday at 10 a.m. at the First United Methodist Church in Biloxi. Burial will follow in the Brooklyn Cemetery in Brooklyn, MS.
In lieu of flowers the family requests donations to either the Gillis Library in Brooklyn, MS or The American Heart Association, P.O. Box 638, Gulfport, MS 39502.
The Sun Herald
07 December 2004
