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Obituaries




Fairfield Recorder newspaper - Feb 16, 2006 edition

Martha Jo (Bulin) Tackett Denney

Funeral services were held Friday for Martha Jo Tackett Denney at Ricks-Bowers
Funeral Home Chapel, Louis Simpson and Carl Clark officiating. Mrs. Denney died
at the age of 79 on February 7. Interment was at Dew Cemetery. 

Mrs. Denney was born on August 3, 1926 in Bremond to Andy Lee and Emily Allison
Bulin. She was regarded as a good mother, grandmother and great grandmother who
never met a stranger. She was a member of Corinth Baptist Church and loved to
attend church singings. Mrs. Denney worked as a waitress in several area
restaurants and met Lee Denney while working at Grandma's Fried Chicken which
is now Ponte's Diner in Fairfield. They married February 12, 1981. She was
living in Lanely at time of death.

Mrs. Denney was preceded in death by her parents; her first husband Gerald
Tackett and her sisters Dorine Barger and Maurice Bulin.

Surviving Mrs. Denney are her husband, Mr. Lee Denney of Lanely; her son Jerry
Tackett and wife Jean of Teague; daughter Vicki Jo Graves and husband Ray of
Teague and grandchildren Heath Tackett and Angela Fogle of Teague. She is also
survived by her great grandchildren Mackenzie and Brayden of Teague; brother
Tracy Bulin of Teague; sisters Dorothy Denton of Angleton, Reba Holder of Lake
Jackson and Jacque Frazier of Willis; a special niece who was more like a
daughter, June Long and husband Columbus of Lanely and her children Lynnie Long
of Rowlett, Jaime Long of Kirvin and Jason Long of Dew and numerous nieces,
nephews and other relatives and friends.

Pallbearers were Columbus Long, Jason Long, G. V. Long, Grady Hill, Gary Sim
and Robert Brantner. Honorary pallbearers were members of the Corinth Baptist
Church.

Arrangements were by Ricks-Bowers Funeral Home.