Obituary: Zada Denman, October 30, 2012

Contributed by Brenda Scott Hines
Feb 2015
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The Observer/Enterprise, Coke County, TX - November 9, 2012

Zada Denman passed away Tuesday, October 30, 2012, at the Bronte 
Health & Rehab Center. Viewing was at the funeral home from 9 am to 8 pm 
Friday, November 2, 2012. Funeral Services were held at 2 pm Saturday, 
November 3, 2012, at First Baptist Church of Bronte, Reverend Cecil Harper 
and Reverend Morris Johnson officiating. Interment followed in Fairview 
Cemetery. Services were under the direction of Shaffer Funeral Home.

Zada was born December 15, 1919, to Bob and Ninnie Patterson at 
Indian Creek between Bronte and Robert Lee Texas, and graduated from 
Robert Lee High School in 1937. Zada married Aubrey Denman on June 6, 1937, 
at the Methodist parsonage in Robert Lee by Bro. Earl Hoggard.
 
Zada was very active in the churches she attended, which included San Angelo, 
McCamey and Bronte. She started the first Sunday school class at the 
Bronte Nursing Home, delivered sermon tapes of Sunday morning services 
to shut-ins and also delivered many peach cobblers to them as well. 
She was very active in WMU, GA's, and other activities of the church, 
willing to work anywhere she was needed. She loved the Lord and was very 
dedicated to Him and she did not mind telling you about Him. 

She loved music, played the piano and harmonica by ear. In January 1947, 
they purchased a small farm northwest of Bronte. Hardships endured with 
the drought of the fifties, no transportation for a year, and Aubrey 
leaving home to find work. They were thankful for good neighbors, 
businesses and the First National Bank of Bronte.
 
Zada and Aubrey first attended church in Bronte in the old church building 
where Lanny and Don were baptized in the old tabernacle.
Aubrey's first carpenter job was the construction of First Baptist Church 
as it stands today. In 1956, they moved to the new county park in Bronte 
where Aubrey was caretaker for ten years. Zada worked beside him keeping 
up flowerbeds, working concession stand, keeping swimmers at the pool fed 
with good hotdogs and homemade goodies. In 1966 they moved to Mount Lebanon 
Baptist Encampment at Cedar Hill, Texas where Aubrey was maintenance 
superintendent for 19 months and Zada worked many hours preparing meals 
for campers. In 1967, they moved back to the farm in Bronte and purchased 
White Auto store from C. E. and Neva Bruton. They sold the store in 1977 
to daughter Jeanna and husband Wendell Lee. The store was in the family
for over forty years. She moved to San Angelo in 1996 and really enjoyed 
living at Baptist Memorial Retirement Village and enjoyed 
singing in the Senior choir (The Melody Makers) at Immanuel Baptist Church 
and playing her harmonica.
 
Zada was preceded in death by her husband Aubrey, her Mom and Dad, Bob & Ninnie 
Patterson; son Aubrey Don and grandson Troy Don Lee; siblings; Herman, R.C., 
L. C., Clifford, Eddie Patterson, Ila Belle Compton and Nola Harmon. She is 
survived by son, Lanny and wife Raydene, daughter, Jeanna and husband Wendell, 
son, David and wife Ronda. Grandchildren; Shawn Denman and wife Michelle,
Kristy Novack and husband Bobby,Tonya Brown, Kerry Lee and wife Heather, 
Amy Tanberg and husband Nathan, Joy Denman, Janae Denman, and eleven 
great grandchildren.

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