Hermenta Pendleton

It is with great sadness that the family of Hermenta A. Pendleton announces her passing, surrounded by loved ones, on Monday, March 12, 2018, at the age of 96 years.

A funeral service will be Saturday, March 17, 2018, at 3:00 p.m. at Wright Funeral Home in Brookfield with Pastor James Reed officiating. Burial will be in Rose Hill Cemetery in Brookfield.  The family will receive friends Saturday, from 2:00 p.m. until the time of service at the funeral home.

Memorials to the First Baptist Church in Brookfield, may be left at or mailed to Wright Funeral Home, P.O. Box 496, Brookfield, MO 64628.

She was born in Kansas City, Missouri on November 18, 1921 to Lenis and Devolua Perkins.  At the age of 3, Hermenta and her family moved to Brookfield. On September 11, 1939, she married Leon Pendleton, who preceded her in death on February 6, 2005.

At the age of 11, she became a member of the First Baptist Church in Brookfield where she was a member of the junior/senior choir, Sunday School teacher, and served on the Mission Circle as a devoted local missionary, holding various offices.  She was also a member of the Mount Zion Baptist Association.

While being a homemaker, she also worked at Whitaker Cable in Brookfield, where she retired in 1982.  Hermenta also enjoyed being a Pink Lady, volunteering at Pershing Memorial Hospital in Brookfield.

Hermenta will be lovingly remembered by daughters, Connie Pendleton-Barnes and husband, Joseph of Denver, Colorado and Angeline Terrell and husband, Jack of St. Joseph.  She will be fondly remembered by her 5 grandchildren; 3 step-grandchildren; 6 great-grandchildren; 9 great great-grandchildren (5 generations); and a host of nieces, nephews, cousins, other family members, and friends.

Her parents, Lenis and DeVolua Perkins; two brothers, Lenis “L.E.” Perkins and Alvin Perkins; and one sister, Era Lewis also preceded her in death.

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