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July 27, 1989
Sapulpa Herald
Sapulpa, Creek County, Oklahoma

Clarence Marion Denham, 75, Kellyville, died today at home.

Services will be 10:30 am Saturday at the First Christian Church with Gerald Rendel and Russell Casey officiating.

Burial will be at South Heights Cemetery under the direction of Smith Funeral Home.

He was born July 20, 1914, in Lapwaii, Idaho, to Edward Vernon and Luella Denham. He came to Oklahoma in 1925 to live with his aunt and uncle Rosie and Cal Wright. He had 15 brothers and sisters.

Mr. Denham graduated from Sapulpa High School in 1933 and attended Kemper Military School and Principia college. He was employed as an oil field worker with Wright Oilfield service.

Survivors include wife, Mildred Louise of the home; son Jack Denham of Kellyville; daughters Diane Whittenton of Sapulpa and Phyllis Holcomb of Kellyville; brothers George Denham of Bristow and Melvin Newby of Portland, Ore.; sisters Ellen Cash of Gangeville, Idaho, Mary Jane McPherson of Farmington, N.M., and Alice Niles of Perkins, Okla.; seven grandchildren; eight great-grandchildren; and several nieces and nephews.

Mr. Denham also worked at Douglas Aircraft from 1942 to 1967, at which time he retired due to health problems.

He married his wife, Mildred, on Dec 31, 1935, in Sapulpa.

After retirement, the couple started their own business, Denham’s Steak House, Kellyville, which they ran for 10 years.

Mr. Denham also was a farmer and dairyman in the Liberty Mounds and Kellyville areas.

He had been a 32nd degree mason in the Kellyville Lodge 498 and Sapulpa Lodge 170 since 1948. He also had been a member of the Early Thirties Club of Sapulpa, the First Christian Church in Sapulpa and of the builders Sunday School class of the church.