Elizabeth Mary (Davignon) Denning

Elizabeth Mary (Davignon) Denning, 97, of Morgan, passed away peacefully with her family on Friday, June 7.
Born August 12, 1926, in Albany, Vermont, the daughter of Leo Davignon and Nellie (Pudvah) Davignon, she grew up in Albany and Brownington, graduated from Orleans High School (class of 1943) and Lyndon Teachers College, and received her M.A. from New York University. She was a schoolteacher in Orleans County and then in Riverhead, NY. She married Joseph Harry Denning at St Theresa's Church in Orleans on March 19, 1953. After they moved to Hurleyville, New York, she was an elementary school teacher in the Fallsburg district for thirty years; though she taught all levels, her favorite was second grade, teaching children to read.
In 1986, she retired with Joe to the home they built on the shores of Seymour Lake, where she was active in the Circle of Friends and the Garden Club. Joe died in 2013.
She is survived by her three children, Michael of Guilford, Connecticut, Karen Rosenlund of Keystone Heights, Florida, and Cecilia of Sicklerville, New Jersey; three grandchildren, Nicholas Carby-Denning of Wayne, Pennsylvania, Brandon Marsden, of Goshen, New York, and Brittany Fontana of Micanopy, Florida; and four great-grandchildren, Theodore and Benjamin of Goshen, New York, and Chloe and Marcus of Wayne, Pennsylvania.
She was very close to her brothers and sisters who gathered over the years at the Davignon homestead in Brownington, at the summer camps on Seymour and Lake Parker, and in Florida; Raymond, Ralph, and Rev. Charles Davignon predeceased her; she is survived by her brothers Francis Davignon of Brownington, Ernest Davignon of West Lebanon, New Hampshire, and her sisters Rita Hogan of Northfield, Massachusetts, Anita Cook of Morgan, and Kathleen Duffey of Northfield, Massachusetts. "Aunt Elizabeth" is also survived by many devoted nieces and nephews.
Calling hours will be held at the Curtis Britch & Bouffard Funeral Home, 37 Lake Road, Newport on June 14, 2024, from 9 to 10 a.m. The funeral will be held on June 14, 2024, at St. Theresa's Church in Orleans at 11 a.m. with the burial following at St Theresa's Cemetery in Orleans. In lieu of flowers, the family requests that donations be made in her name to the Michaud Memorial Manor Fund at Vermont Catholic Community Foundation https://vtcatholicfoundation.org/charity-funds. Online condolences may be made at curtis-britch.com. Arrangements are entrusted to the care of Curtis-Britch & Bouffard Funeral Home & Cremation Service, locally family owned and operated.