Lucy B. Dennison

1928 - 2025

Lucy Beeler Dennison (1928-2025)

Doctor Lucy B. Dennison, Associate Professor Emeritus and former Chair of the Department of Home Economics at Hood College, died in Louisville, Kentucky on December 28, 2025. She was 97. She died at The Altenheim, a senior care facility in Louisville where she had resided since 2021.

Doctor Dennison's career in education spanned 41 years and 5 states. At the time of her retirement in 1991 she had been an Associate Professor at Hood College for 11 years. She previously taught at James Madison University, the University of Delaware, East Tennessee State University, and in Kentucky public schools. She was a 1948 summa cum laude graduate of Western Kentucky State Teachers College, now known as Western Kentucky University. She earned a master's degree from the University of Kentucky in 1964 and a doctorate from Virginia Tech in 1978. Western Kentucky University honored her as an Outstanding Alumna in 1991.

At the time of her retirement she was president-elect of the National Council of Administrators of Family and Consumer Sciences (NCAFCS), and had written several papers that were published in professional journals and presented at national conferences. She was a founding member and officer of the Frederick Torch Club, and after retirement she served on the board of directors of the Frederick Memorial Hospital Auxiliary. She was active in the Catholic Daughters of the Americas, and enjoyed reading, gardening, and traveling with family and friends.

Lucy Green Beeler was born on July 9, 1928 in Spring Lick, Kentucky. She was the youngest of five children born to Charles Henderson Beeler and the former Jessie Kyle Green. Her husband of 63 years, William C Dennison, died in 2013. She is survived by two sons, William J. Dennison of Falls Church, Virginia and Wendell C. Dennison of Shelbyville, Kentucky, daughters-in-law Judith L. Lotz and Laura B. Dennison, two grandchildren and two great-grandchildren.

A memorial service will be held on January 24, 2026 in Leitchfield, Kentucky.



In life Doctor Dennison was a supporter of St. Jude's Children's Research Hospital. Anyone wishing to honor her memory is invited to donate to that institution or to another charity of the donor's choice. Lucy B. Dennison