- Date Of Death: December 17, 2021
- State: Florida
Ms. Brenda Lee Hardiman Kennedy passed away on Friday, December 17, 2021.
Brenda was born on March 28, 1944, the daughter of Mary (Hardiman) Turner in Danville, Illinois. She attended the public schools of Danville. She later met and married Jimmy A. Kennedy and spent years raising her two children and being a military wife. Brenda worked many years in California with disabled young adults teaching them skills so they could learn to live independently. She loved all children and believed with education, structure, and love they all could cross the bridge to that place called ‘success.’ She not only encouraged and demanded the best from her children, but if you spent time with her children, you were automatically included in whatever blessings/punishment that was being dealt out. Today, many of those same kids consider her to be their second mom and grieve her passing along with her biological children. Brenda relocated to Tampa in 1993 and, not long thereafter, became employed at the Tampa Lighthouse for the Blind where she worked until she became ill.
Brenda was preceded in death by her husband, Jimmy A. Kennedy; mother, Mary Hardiman Turner; stepfather, John Turner, Sr.; brother, John Turner II; special cousin, Karen E. Turner; special aunt, Wanda Trice; and her grandmother, Omie.
