She completed her nursing degree at Odessa College and retired from rehab nursing at The University of North Carolina Health Care System in Chapel Hill, NC.
She is preceded in death by her daughter, Lisa Michelle Baldwin.
Brenda is survived by her ex-husband, John Baldwin; sons, James Todd Baldwin and Tracy Lynn Baldwin; daughter, Jennifer Diane Baldwin Whytlaw; son-in-law, Tom Whytlaw; grandsons, Ben Whytlaw, Justin Whytlaw; and granddaughter, Bella Gregston.
Services were held on Saturday, January 14, 2023 at 1 PM at Hubbard Kelly Funeral Home in Odessa and inurnment will be Saturday, January 21, 2023 at 1 PM at Westwood Cemetery in Carrboro, North Carolina.