Winona Grace Dennison

WINONA GRACE "SISSY" DENNISON Memorial services for longtime Cortez resident Winona Grace "Sissy" Dennison will be held at 10 a.m. on Monday, March 26 at Lewis Arriola Community Center with Pastor Kent Slyter officiating. Inurnment will follow at Cortez Cemetery. Sissy, as she was fondly called by family and friends, was born in Longview, Tex. on October 9, 1955 the daughter of Raymond Harding and Doris Ann (Taylor) Barger. She passed away at her home on Wednesday, March 21, 2012 at the age of 56. On May 26, 1984 Sissy married Darrell Ray Dennison in Las Vegas, Nev. Devoted to children, Sissy was a teacher for Montezuma-Cortez School District RE-1 and was the director at Beech Street Pre-School. She was also involved with the 4-H program and a group leader of Battlerock 4-H and project leader of ceramics and rabbits. Sissy was deeply involved in rabbit breeding; she was a member of Mile High Rabbit Breeders Association, was President of Four Corners Rabbit Breeders Association and was National President of the American Polish. For a number of years Sissy owned and operated Pippos Restaurant, and as her family will tell you, she was a great cook. Surviving Sissy are her loving husband of nearly 28 years, Darrell Dennison of Cortez; her daughter, Dena Morris and husband, Noah of Willowstreet, Penn.; one granddaughter, Annastasia Renee Morris; and her siblings, Richard Barger of Van Horn, Tex., Sandy Kendall of Las Vegas, Nev., Marilyn Foster of Orange, Calif. and Dan Barger of California. Sissy was preceded in death by her parents; and a brother, Steve Barger. Memorial contributions can be made in Winona "Sissy" Dennison's name with Vectra Bank to fund a 4-H Scholarship.