Gail Bernice Denner Obituary - Visitation & Funeral Information

Gail Bernice Denner passed away surrounded by her loving family on October 3, 2021, at the age of 84. She was born on March 3, 1937, to Vernon and Catherine Jones in Baltimore, Maryland. She moved to California and then back to Baltimore where she met and married her loving husband, Charles Denner. She had a great sense of humor. She was the family jokester; always smiling, joking, and making the party fun. She also loved shelling, crabbing, fishing, boating, playing cards (poker was her game), and going out dancing with her friends. But most of all, she loved her family. Everything was about family for her. She once traveled to a Key West campground with her family and went shelling (even though she wasn’t supposed to) and collected a good 5-gallon bucket’s worth of beautiful conch shells and decided it would be a good idea to clean them off with muriatic acid. So, without diluting the acid, she poured it over the shells, and they immediately began giving off noxious fumes, pluming down the campsite in a cloud of white smoke. When the reaction had stopped all the shells had been melted away. Another time, she was out on an old friend’s boat with her daughter, Martha, bragging about her fishing rod. No sooner had she said how great it was, did a fish get hooked and drag it off into the water, never to be seen again. She was a member of the Moose Lodge in Millington. Mrs. Denner is survived by her husband of 54 years, Charles Denner; their three children, Holly Jones (Ricky) of Duck Neck, MD, Martha Porter (Warren) of Spring Grove, PA, and Chip Denner of Crumpton, MD; grandchildren, Keith Jones (Erica) of Ingleside, MD, Amy Combs (Ron) of Newark, MD, Heidi Ferguson (Jesse) of Federalsburg, MD, Matthew Porter of Spring Grove, PA, and Chad Denner of North East, MD; as well as many great-grandchildren. In lieu of flowers, donations can be made to Compass Regional Hospice 160 Coursevall Dr. Centreville, MD 21617. Services will be held on Wednesday, October 6, at 1pm at Fellows, Helfenbein, and Newnam Funeral Home in Chestertown, MD. A two-hour visitation will be held prior from 11am-1pm. Interment will be in Crumpton Cemetery.

Gail Bernice Denner

March 23, 1937 - October 3, 2021