Brenda Ladene (Jones) Bennett

Brenda LaDene Bennett, 82, of Hillsboro passed away Tuesday, January 3, 2023.  Graveside services will be held at 11:30 a.m. Thursday, January 5, 2023, at Hillcrest Garden of Memory near Hillsboro with Rev. Ricky Woodall officiating.  Visitation will take place prior to service time from 9:00-10:45 a.m. at Marshall & Marshall Funeral Directors in Hillsboro.

Brenda was born March 4, 1940, in Hillsboro to Oliver and Markie (Roark) Jones.  She attended Hillsboro schools, graduating in 1958.  While in high school, she dated and fell in love with Dean Paul Bennett who she married on July 11, 1959.

Brenda attended the University of Texas briefly and excelled in secretarial studies, ranking top of her class in shorthand and typing.  She put that skill to good use one year later and was secretary at the Texas Department of Health in Austin, while her husband attended pharmacy school at U. T. in Austin.

When he graduated from pharmacy school, they moved back to Hillsboro where he became a pharmacist at H & R Drug Store and Brenda became a legal secretary.  After becoming a mother, Brenda was a stay-at-home mom and took care of her two sons until 1975 when she started working with her husband at the drug store.  She worked there until they sold the store in December 1987.  They had bought a cattle farm in 1964, where they also resided.

Brenda loved and believed in God in Heaven and his Son, Jesus Christ.  She believed strongly in prayers.  She mostly prayed thank you prayers for all her many blessings.

She was preceded in death by her parents, her husband, and her sister, Annette Potter.

Survivors include her two sons, Stephen and wife, Kim, and Scott and wife, Sarah; six grandchildren; and six great-grandchildren.

In lieu of flowers, memorials may be made to Providence Hospice, 6700 Sanger Ave., Waco, TX 76710 or St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital, 501 Saint Jude Place, Memphis, TN 38105-1942.