Brenda Breithaupt

Brenda Joyce (Penny) Breithaupt, 81, passed away peacefully July 11, 2021, at Brookside Retirement Community, Overbrook.

She was born March 21, 1940, in Lawrence, Kansas, daughter of Margaret (Spence) Penny and Jim (Pappy) Penny.

She was a lifelong member of Lawrence First Church of the Nazarene where she met her high school sweetheart, Glenn. They were married April 18, 1958.

She loved her church and serving wherever she was needed, whether that was VBS, teaching a Sunday School class, having families over for Sunday lunch after church to sitting in her wheelchair passing out candy when the children would come to her with bible verses they'd memorized during church. She also loved the outdoors, cooking, baking, sewing, and spending time with her family – especially Glenn.

Brenda worked at Hallmark Cards and Sears, Roebuck & Co. before suffering from a brain aneurism in 1973. She then went on to work at USD 497 Food Services where she worked at Schwegler Elementary and South Junior High School where she was able to combine her love for cooking/baking with her love of children & so enjoyed the years she was able to work there. In 1996 she suffered her second aneurism which left her 100% reliant on Glenn to care for her. She was preceded in death by her husband Glenn, her parents, sister Carol Grant and sister-in-law Tina Penny.

Survivors include son Don W. Breithaupt (Janet), their kids Amy Newell (Daniel), Mackenzie Wehrman (Gunther); Jay Amyx (Tracy); Joe Amyx (Erica); daughter Kris Oehlert (Paul), their kids Samantha Wright (Zach) and Kasey Oehlert (Madison); daughter Carrie Shuck (Brad) and their kids Taylor Sansano (Julian), and Connor Shuck (Keeli). Great grandchildren Rock, Xavier, Braxton, Breaker, Hayden, Vossen, Jackson, Jules and future Baby Sansano.

Funeral services will be 10 am Thursday at Lawrence First Church of the Nazarene. Burial will follow the service at the Worden Cemetery.

In lieu of flowers, memorial contributions may be made to Lawrence First Church of the Nazarene. Online condolences may be sent at rumsey-yost.com