Dennis got married right out of high school when he was 19 to a girl from Holy Names Academy. He was married twice and has five daughters. After leaving the Armed Forces, he started his own successful business selling produce. He developed a line of salads that he prepacked, sealed and delivered from San Francisco to Alaska. Dennis died in a plane crash in 1978 flying his own plane during a fishing trip to Canada. He was lost for 3 years until his airplane was found.

Denny was one of my closest friends in high school and afterwards. Denny was a high spirited, fun loving, teasing character. Just before our senior year, he took me fishing on Greenlake, where with his help, I caught my first fish, a pretty undernourished trout. Denny laughingly cleaned it and took a picture of me gingerly holding this thing up by the tail. We used to harass each other mercilessly on our political stances, he being more conservative as the years went on, and I going the other way, and I was looking forward to seeing him at our 20th reunion where we could resume our battles. I'll never forget the shock at seeing his name among the departed Teddies at that reunion. You could always count on Denny to crack you up - and I still do smile at memories of some of the mischief we'd conjure up.