William McCrary Denton

William McCrary Denton departed to be with his LORD on 25 August 2010. He was born on November 23, 1923 in Muskogee, Oklahoma of William A. and Camille V. Denton. His early life was spent on the family farm near Colbert, Oklahoma. He graduated from Colbert High School in 1942.

During World War II, he joined the Army Air Corps. After training at various bases in the United Sates, he was assigned to the 5th Air Force as a gunner on the B-25 bomber with the 38th Bombardment Group, seeing action in the South Pacific. He was stationed in New Guinea, the Philippines, Okinawa and Japan.

Upon being discharged in 1946, he returned home to his family. He went to Austin College for a year and then to Oklahoma Agricultural and Mechanical College, where he received a Bachelor of Science degree in mechanical engineering. He married Peggy Jane Wineinger in 1947. This union lasted until her death in 1997. They were blessed with four sons and two daughters. In 1950, he was employed by Gulf Refining Company (the pipeline subsidiary of Gulf Oil Corporation) at Midland, Texas. Bill worked in West Texas, Fort Worth, Ranger, and Wortham before being transferred to Houston in 1953. He became director of the Planning Department for the pipeline in 1963 before being promoted to manager in 1971. Except for a 9 month temporary assignment as district manager in Beaumont, he continued as the pipeline planning Manager until he elected to take early retirement in 1983. Bill was a member of the Kingwood Assembly of Christ (which had its beginning as Belfort Park Baptist Church) from 1953. He is survived by his four sons and two daughters, William M. and Rhonda, Vicci M., Richard G. and Miriam, all of Houston, Robert L. and Cathy of Katy, John A. and Marcia of Grapevine, and Deborah and Danny Gilstrap of Magnolia. In addition there are 15 grand children and 10 great grand children.