Portage County’s oldest resident, Mary Denny, dies at 111

Mary Denny sits in her chair while giving life advice to future generations. “Work hard, pray a lot and exercise. Even if you don’t feel like working, do it anyways,” she said. Asha Blake/ The Portager.

Portage County’s oldest resident, Mary Denny, dies at 111

- Natalie Wolford

Mary Denny, a Suffield native who was among the oldest people in the world at 111, died Tuesday, her family said.

In a Portager feature for her 111th birthday in June, Denny described her bucolic upbringing in Suffield as the youngest of seven children. She recounted different eras of her life, marked in her memory by the type of car she drove or didn’t drive. She only stopped driving herself when she was 93 years old.

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