Brenda Kay (Blackwelder) Holder

Brenda Kay Blackwelder Coleman Holder was born in Concord, NC to Annie Mae Wilson Blackwelder (deceased) and Tony Junior Blackwelder (deceased). She was a graduate of the Class of 1978 from Northwest Cabarrus High School. Brenda suffered from many years of ailing health and has now gone home to the spiritual world.

Brenda wrote for three online newspapers and was a professional photographer, owner of B. Blackwelder Photography. She was also an employee of Dr. Paul Agris at NCSU in the Biochemistry department for many years.

Brenda is the mother of Tonya Renee Blackwelder Riddle and Anthony Wayne Holder, wife Jaclynn Holder, Grandchildren, Alana Oliver, Cassady Holder, Kailee Helms, Zoey Holder, Wyatt Holder, Arimus Joseph Drake and Cheyane Dakota Eagle. Sisters Debbie C McDaniel, Toni Lynn Blackwelder Greene, Johana E. Blackwelder McManus (deceased) and brother Tracy Blackwelder.

Members of the Holder family, Linda Russ Holder (deceased), Arnold W. Holder, Dwayne and Jennifer Holder, Patty Williams and son Joshua and daughters, Stephanie, Stacy and Cassey. Also Todd and Jeff Russ.

She was preceeded in death by her fiancé Jeffery Allen Engelland. She had become a member of the Engelland Family, member, Marry Lou and Allan A. Engelland, Linda Hocker and Glenn. Jeff’s sons Joshua Engelland, wife Sara Engelland, son Riley, also Dylan Engelland.

Her son will be planning a small gathering in memory of her life, in the near future. It will be a celebration of her life, not a morning of her death for family and close friends.