ANN BRANDENBERGER May 5, 2017
Ann Brandenberger of Los Alamos, New Mexico passed away peacefully in her sleep at Saint Vincent hospital May 5, 2017 due to complications from a severe infection. She had been residing in the Santa Fe Care Center nursing home since February 2017.
Mrs. Brandenberger was born in Brownsville, Texas in 1938 and spent her childhood in San Angelo, Texas. Her parents were Jack Henry Morris and Billie Gresham-Morris. She had a degree in mathematics from the University of Texas and obtained her Doctorate of Jurisprudence from St. Mary’s University in San Antonio, Texas. She worked at the University of New Mexico in Los Alamos teaching math and other subjects as well as Trinity on the Hill Episcopal Church as a day care teacher. She was a lifelong learner, loved drawing, and considered herself to be an artist and draftswoman, too. Also, she was an expert on nutrition and supplied many friends with essential oils and free diet advice. She was a lifetime member of Mensa and a tambourine player with the Los Alamos Hillstomper Band. She enjoyed reading, and going to the Betty Ehart Senior Center Day Out Program.
Mrs. Brandenberger is survived by her daughter Sarah Brandenberger and grandson Eagan Epeldi of Boise, Idaho, and her son Jerry Brandenberger of Edgewood, New Mexico.
She is preceded in death by her husband, Jerry Duke Brandenberger in 1979 and her son John David Brandenberger in 1981, who are buried in Guaje Pines Cemetery. She will be interned there as well at a later date.
There will be a memorial service at the Christian Church of Los Alamos on Eastgate Road on Saturday, May 20, 2017 at 11:00 a.m. Pastor Doug Parton will preside, and all are welcome to come say goodbye to Ms. Ann as she was popularly known.
In lieu of flowers, donations may be made in her honor to the PEEC Nature Center, the Los Alamos Food Co-op, and the Betty Ehart Senior Center. She will be missed by her friends and staff at the Day Out Program at the Senior Center and her band mates from the Hillstompers Band in Los Alamos.