Semi-Retired, making Las Vegas, Nevada his home.

Raised on a farm in Jackson Township, Indiana.  Graduated from Rushville High School with a 98° average and was very active in sports (a four letter man), winning a Most Valuable Player Award in 1952.  He got several athletic scholarships but that ended when he had a head-on collision while on his Harley Davidson Hog, which put  him in a body cast and was on his back for a year.  Since Denny survived that and after several operations, he started racing midget and sprint cars.  Between operations, he wore a brace on his right leg and had to take it off while racing to fit into the cockpit and used  a pillow under his leg to hold it up while racing (the shin bone would bend because it was non-union).  One time, when racing in Louisville Kentucky, his midget race car caught fire in front of the grandstand and while getting out of the car and jumping on one leg (waiting for his crutches) the story got in one of the Speed Magazines using the nick-name Denny Jones, which caught on and was called that ever since. (his real name is Elden Jones)...
He has one brother, Ralph and four sisters, Edwina (deceased), Carol, Connie and Kathy.

After a one year stint as a drafting engineer for Boeing Airplane Company in Seattle Washington, Denny returned to Indiana and became a car salesman in 1959 (some of the cars he sold were Mercury, Edsel, Studebaker, Desoto, Packard) and moved to California in 1962.  He was in and out of the car business for over 40 years as a Sales Manager, General Manager and Finance Manager.  In between he had a employment agency, was in the Night Club business (Rock & Roll with live music and Go Go Girls), owned a used car lot, ran several mobile home dealerships and was the General Manger of the largest boat dealership in California.  One of his favorite jobs was being the Director of Memberships for "Magic Island", a high class private club in Houston , Texas.  Denny always came back to Southern California between stints.  he moved to Honolulu, Hawaii in 1990 to become a Finance Manager for the largest Ford dealership there.  Looking to retire somewhere, he picked Las Vegas and moved there in 1994 and bought a home.  Denny was a Finance Manager for one of the largest Motor Home Dealership in United States  until he had to have a knee replaced and then decided to semi-retire. He keeps busy doing Web Sites for friends, consulting for automobile dealerships and is on the Board of a couple of charity organizations. He helps out aspiring entertainers (booking them) and goes to a lot of entertainment functions and parties supporting them.  Denny is the Membership Director of The Showbiz Society.

Denny has three adult children, nine grand children and two great grand children.  His oldest son Elden II lives in Spring Valley, California with his family, one of his daughters graduated from WestPoint and just got back from Iraq, after a years duty there.   The other son, Eric lives in Virginia Beach with his family.  His daughter, Jennifer lives in Riverside, California with her husband (an Assistant District Attorney) and their son Christian. All of his children have Master Degrees and Jennifer is a LCSW (Licensed Clinical Social Worker) and a licensed psychologist.