Wendy Yvonne Todd

Even when the medical community could no longer assist in her 16-year battle with breast cancer, Wendy stayed in the fight. Finally, though, the disease invaded her brain and, on May 25th, stilled the great heart that had showered so much love on everyone she knew.

Wendy never met a stranger. She would strike up a conversation in a checkout line, waiting room or chemotherapy lounge. She cried at railroad crossings and supermarket openings. Her dazzling smile and British accent captivated anyone within earshot. She agonized over unsold Christmas trees and every shop that had to close its doors. She wanted to donate to every homeless person holding a sign. (She actually jumped out of her car at a stoplight one blustery December day and gave her coat to a shivering, homeless man!)

Wendy was a bottomless vessel of love, compassion, sensitivity and selflessness. Besides her many friends and her “Cancer Sisters,” she will be most keenly missed by her husband, Harold W. (“Pete”) Todd; children by blood and marriage, Jamie Y. White (Gary), Hellen J. Wilson, Kenneth J. Todd (Crystie), James K. Mills II (Margaret), Stephen D. Todd (Kathy), Joseph M. Todd, Michelle M. Adams, Mark A. Todd and Timothy S. Emerson; plus seventeen grandchildren and one great-granddaughter. Also surviving are her nieces in England, Roberta Norris (Clive) and Julie Hayo (Nigel).

Wendy was preceded in death by her parents, her sisters, Myrtle Keen and Ruby O’Brien, and her niece, Shelley Daly.

A Celebration of Life will be held on Friday, June 1st, at 10:30 a.m. at the Air Force Academy Cemetery Pavilion, with a reception immediately following at a location to be announced.

In lieu of flowers, the family requests that donations be made in Wendy’s name to the American Cancer Society.