Kenneth Denton

Kenneth Boyd Denton, 88, of Dickinson, ND passed away on January 18, 205 in St. Benedict’s Health Center. Kenneth Boyd Denton (KB or Ken) was born in Bristow, Oklahoma on January 7, 1927 in a typical shotgun house of the old oil field days. He grew up in a loving hardworking family. His father and many of his uncles worked the oil fields. The memories of his childhood are shared with his mother Juanita, father Jessie and sister Wanda along with many cousins. A few fond childhood memories were his patched but clean blue striped overalls and his little red wagon. But, his “prize” possession was his Silver King bicycle bought with money he earned from mowing lawns. He graduated from Okmulgee High School in 1944 and shortly after that he entered the U. S. Army in which he served twenty months and twenty days. Most of his tour was spent in the Philippine Islands during WW II. After his tour in the Army he began preparing for his future by attending Okmulgee Technical School. After two years there he transferred to Oklahoma A&M (later becoming Oklahoma State University) graduating in 1952 with a degree in engineering. Following his graduation he landed a job with Kewanee Oil Co. taking him to Ballinger, Texas. There he met his first and only true love Hazel Brown. Not much over a year later in the Church of Christ in Okmulgee, Oklahoma on April 6, 1956 they were saying marriage vows that would last fifty-eight years. Most of those years have been shared with two loving daughters Lari and Keri. While raising the girls his work carried him to four different states, Texas, Oklahoma, Washington state and North Dakota. Remaining in N. D. after retiring from Chevron Oil, he began working with the Bureau of Land Management retiring from there after ten years. Following retirement bought a RoadTrek motor home and took off to see America and anywhere else they could drive. Wearing out one RoadTrek and buying another they saw much of America including Alaska, much of Canada and had a trip to Mexico planned that had to be canceled. Their traveling days were altered but not ended following the birth of a granddaughter. Delanee was born to Lari and Bruce Hosford living in Texas. They felt blessed as well to have inherited four other grandkids, Rebekah, Nathan, Joy, and Lydia from this marriage. They also enjoy four fuzzy friends Sadie, Thomas, Abbie and Morpheas belonging to Keri married to Richard Scehovic living in Washington State. Ken requested that things be kept simple after his death. His desire was to be cremated, have a simple family and friends gathering in North Dakota then be buried in the Dallas-Fort Worth National Cemetery in Grand Prairie, TX.


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Burial Date: January 23, 2015

Family Receiving Friends: Friday: Stevenson Funeral Home, Dickinson, ND