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DENTON, EDWARD H. (TED) Age 94, passed away Friday, March 8, 2013. He was born in London, England on November 1, 1918, the third of four children of Prof. and Mrs. Francis M. Denton. In 1925, the family crossed the Atlantic to settle in Albuquerque, New Mexico, where Prof. Denton had been invited to organize the Electrical Engineering Department at the State's University. In Albuquerque, Ted went to elementary and high school, and, after two years of college at UNM, transferred to the Southern Methodist University, in Dallas, Texas, where he got his BA degree with the idea of attending the University's seminary. Interrupted by the second world war and two years in the US Navy, he decided, instead, to marry his college-days sweetheart, Mary Lou Williams. The two settled, at first in Chicago, where Ted worked as a technologist at the University of Chicago's Research Institutes, and she as a teacher of set design at the Art Institute's Goodman Theater. Fourteen years later, they moved to Boulder, Colorado, with their five-year-old son, where Ted oversaw the development of a rocket-borne, cryogenic air sampler for the National Center for Atmospheric Research. Upon completion of that project, and following the untimely death of their son, Ted and Mary Lour moved to Denver where Ted helped develop specialized instruments for the U.S. Geological Survey in Denver and Reston (Virginia), until 1982, when he retired. At that time Ted and Mary Lou returned to New Mexico, where Mary Lour pursued her special talent as a portrait and landscape painter, and Ted turned his attention to developing a simple freeze-drying apparatus for preserving biological specimens, and to helping teachers in the public school systems discover the insights to be found in the world's great literature. He was preceded in death by his wife, May Lou (Williams) Denton; his brother, Francis C. Denton; and a sister, Mrs. Lucia Salat, all of Albuquerque; and a sister, Mrs. Clyde Kamatchis, of Levittown, Long Island, New York. In lieu of flowers donations may be given in Edward's honor to Ambercare Hospice, 2129 Osuna Rd. NE, Albuquerque, NM. To view information or leave a condolence please visit www.danielsfuneral.com Daniels Family Funeral Services 2400 Southern Blvd Rio Rancho, NM 87124 505-891-9192
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