Obit – Mrs. Brenda Bunker

Surrounded by her loving family, Mrs. Brenda Bunker age 75 entered eternal rest at the family’s Nature Mountain Trail farm in the Difficult Community on Friday afternoon October 9, 2026 following a battle with cancer. She was under the care of Kim Stafford of Gentiva Hospice of Livingston who pronounced Mrs. Bunker deceased at 12:13 p.m.

Graveside services are scheduled to be conducted on Thursday afternoon October 15th at 1 p.m. with eulogies by family members. Burial will follow in the Bunker Cemetery on the Bunker family farm.

Visitation with the family will begin at the graveside beginning at 12:30 p.m. Thursday afternoon.

Mrs. Bunker was born Brenda Kay Delancey on January 21, 1951 in Stuttgart in Arkansas County, Arkansas and was the daughter of the late Thomas Lee Delancey who died January 30, 2004 at the age of 72 and the late Lois Delancey.

A brother, Richard Delancey preceded her in death.

At the Trousdale County Courthouse in 1998 after relocating to Tennessee from North Little Rock, Arkansas, she was united in marriage to Prairie County, Arkansas native, Walter Dewayne Bunker.

Mrs. Bunker was a construction worker operating a backhoe and before relocating to Tennessee was employed by the Parks and Recreation Department in Little Rock, Arkansas.

She was of the Baptist faith.

Surviving in addition to her husband Walt, of over twenty-eight years, are her two step-sons, Richard Dewayne Bunker and wife Sharon of the Difficult Community, Jimmy Lloyd Bunker of Cabot, Arkansas; two sisters, Sharon Tanksley of Stuttgart, Arkansas, Merlyn Delancey of Paducah, Kentucky; brother, Tad Delancey of also of Paducah, Kentucky; neighbor and caregiver, Karen Deskins of the Difficult Community; four step grandchildren and five step-great-grandchildren.

SANDERSON of CARTHAGE