LaDell
Denny- LaDell Denny (everyone calls him Dell) was born in Erwinville, LA as the 4th child of John Thomas Denny and Margaret Ann Germany. He married to Ivanore May Harrold in Columbus, OH. They had 2 children: Barbara Dell Denny and Kerry Lynn Denny.
- As a child, Dell felt like his mom favored him. She was always patient with him. When he would come in all dirty as a child, she wouldn't scold him--she would just help him change clothes. She always wanted her children to bring their friends over. After school, she would always have peanut butter toast, warm in the oven, for whoever stopped by. They lived near the school so always had quite a gathering at their house.
- He met Ivanore while on a train. He was a soldier in WWII and was coming home to Baton Rouge on leave and Ivanore was with her parents coming to Baton Rouge to visit her brother, John Lyman Harrold, who was also a soldier. Dell said Ivanore's pretty white teeth attracted him.
- Dell started earning money at a very early age. He had a paper route when Jack Dempsey was the Heavy Weight Champion (1926). While attending LSU, Dell "hopped cars" and was a "Soda Jerk" at a place called Santy Clear Drive-In in Baton Rouge, LA. He then managed a drug store on the LSU campus in Tigertown.
- In the early depression years he managed a U-Coin Restaurant at a Cigar/Cigarette Store located at the corner of Third and Laurel Streets in downtown Baton Rouge. He then started a sandwich business. He and his mother made fresh sandwiches that he took to local stores to sell. The business went well but he gave it up to go on a trip to California with his Dad to visit his uncle and cousins.
- In 1936 he went to Greenville, MS and managed the Dixie Brewery Distributorship. After that he went to work for the U.S. Gypsom Co. where he was the night foreman for 22 men.
- He returned to Baton Rouge in 1938 and operated a filling station until held up by gunpoint which convinced him to get out of that business. He worked at the Ethyl Corp. as an electrician's helper and in 1939 started with Southern Bell Telephone Co. and stayed until retirement in 1978.
- Dell died July 12, 2005 at age 92 yrs. He and his humor is a noticeable absence from the lives of many.