Brenda Dianne Hepner

Ms. Hepner died Monday, May 5, 2003, at Lawrence Memorial Hospital.

She was born July 15, 1959, in Lawrence, the daughter of Robert Hepner and Loma Gregg. She was raised by Dale and Loma Gregg. She graduated from Perry-Lecompton High School and Baker University with a master’s degree in business management in 1998.

Ms. Hepner worked for Southwestern Bell for 25 years. She was a member of American Business Women’s Assn. and Bell Pioneers.

Survivors include her mother, Lawrence; father, Dale Gregg, and his wife, Elsie Stucky Gregg, Taylors, S.C.; two brothers, Steven Gregg, Baldwin, and Dan Gregg, Eudora; four sisters, Christine Hollister, Des Moines, Iowa, Julia Hackl and Dayle Wiley, both of Lawrence, and Dorothy Denney, Baldwin.

Friends may call from 9 a.m. to 9 p.m. Thursday at the funeral home, where family will receive friends from 7 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. Thursday.

The family suggests memorials to Lawrence Humane Society or National Kidney Foundation, sent in care of Rumsey-Yost Funeral Home, P.O. Box 1260, Lawrence 66044.

Online condolences may be sent at www.rumsey-yost.com.