HUSBANDS: md 1st Henry Dyer, md 2nd Herman Briggs, md 3rd William Mervin Denney, 23 December 1955, Wilson Co., TN, s/o George Gore Denney & Lydia Cheek. William Mervin Denney md 1st Hattie Keith Boyd, both buried in the Wilson Co., Memorial Gardens Cemetery, Lebanon, TN.

Back of her tombstone: Memorial to Erma Shanks Denney: Almost fifteen years ago Erma Shanks Denney had an idea to establish a fund that would insure the care of the Smellage Cemetery long after she and her contemporaries were gone, having grown up in this community she knew and loved many of those persons buried in this cemetery and that is what urged her on in her efforts to establish a trust fund to provide for perpetual care. Although she had not lived in this community for many years her heart longed
to return on May 1991 that wish was fulfilled when she came home to rest beside her parents. She would be the first to tell you that the need for additional donations will be deeded for the perpetual care fund after her death.

MADISON, TN: Funeral services for Erma Shanks Denney, 80, of Madison, TN and formerly of Baxter, will be held Monday, May 20 at 2 p.m. in the Chapel of Baxter Funeral Home with Bro. Shelby Manier officiating. Burial will be in the Smellage Cemetery in the Boma community of Putnam County.
Mrs. Denney died Friday May 17, 1991 in Tennessee Christian Medical Center in Madison, TN. She was born August 1, 1910 in Putnam Co., TN She was the daughter of the late Van and Ellen Maynard Shanks.
She was retired from a job with the Dupont Corp. in Nashville. She was a member of the Old Hickory Church of Christ.
Her family includes her husband, Bill Denney of Madison; three sisters, Juanita Grisham of Memphis, Eunita Denton of Old Hickory, and Catherine Anderson of Cookeville; a brotherinlaw H. L. Anderson of Cookeville, and several nieces and nephews.