Bibb County GaArchives Obituaries.....Denton, Patrick Welland December 21, 2007
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Macon Telegraph
COLUMBIA, TENNESSEE- Elder Patrick Welland Denton, age 76, a resident of 
Alderwood Drive in Columbia, passed away on Friday, December 21, 2007 at Maury 
Regional Hospital in Tennessee. The family received friends on Wednesday, 
December 26, 2007 from 12:00 noon until 2:00 P.M. at Crest Lawn. Graveside 
services followed at Glen Haven Memorial Gardens. Elder Dan Bryant 
officiated. -Born in Sweetwater, Texas, he was the son of the late Jesse 
Monroe Denton and Mary Elizabeth Barton Denton. Graduating from Lanier High 
School in 1948, he enlisted in the United States Navy from 1948-1956 
discharging as an Aviation Mechanic having served on the USS Roosevelt and the 
USS Coral Sea. In 1961 he graduated from the former Dudley Hughes Trade School 
in Macon where he received his vocational training later retiring from Inland 
Container as a millwright. Elder Denton was ordained as a minister on October 
12, 1975 at Hale Primitive Baptist Church beginning a faithful service to the 
Lord. He ministered in many churches and had co-pastored the Primitive Baptist 
Church of Cool Springs in Thompson Station, Tennessee since 2000. Elder Denton 
found great joy in praising the Lord through music and the playing of the 
mandolin. He had a great joy of life and spent his years sharing in the Word 
and of the love of his Lord. Elder Denton was preceded in death by his first 
wife: Della Mae Chesser Denton; one brother: Beale B. Denton and one sister: 
G. Waucel Fowler. -He is survived by his wife: Neva J. Goodman Belew Denton of 
Columbia, Tennessee; children: Michael M. (Beverly) Denton of Crawfordsville, 
Indiana and Patricia D. (James) Fennel of Macon; step-children: Marilyn J. 
(Stephan) Haynes of Hartselle, Alabama, Jeffrey D. (Theressa) Belew of 
Lewisburg, Tennessee, Vance A. (Paula) Belew of Columbia, Tennessee, and 
Philip A. Belew of Pulaski, Tennessee; grandchildren: Briana D. Fennel, 
Matthew R. Fennel and Kyle P. Fennel, all of Macon; step-grandchildren: Byron 
D. Haynes, Amanda D. Haynes and James E. Haynes, all of Hartselle, Alabama, 
Benjamin H. Belew of Lewisburg, Tennessee, Bryant A. Belew of Columbia, 
Tennessee, Eric A. Belew of Columbia, Tennessee, Ashley F. Belew of Pulaski, 
Tennessee, Colten A. Belew of Pulaski, Tennessee, and David Swesey of Park 
City, Tennessee; step-great-grandchildren: Christian A. Swesey of Lewisburg, 
Tennessee and Beverlyann M. Haynes of Hamden, Connecticut; and numerous nieces 
and nephews. -Memorials may be directed to the Primitive Baptist Church of 
Cool Springs, 6670 Cool Springs Road, Thompson Station, Tennessee 37179. -
Crest Lawn Funeral Home had charge of arrangements.

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