Brenda Tretter

Brenda Lea (Head) Tretter, 62, of Little Falls, passed away November 23, 2021 at St. Joseph’s Medical Center in Brainerd.

Funeral services were held at the Camp Ripley Chapel November 30 with Pastor Tim Sumner officiating. 

Interment followed at the Minnesota State Veteran’s Cemetery. 

Brenda was born March 11, 1959 to Byron and Shirley (McCoy) Head in Wadena. She left school after the eighth grade and was married at 16-years-old to Gary Pierzinski. The couple welcomed a daughter, Melanie. 

At the age of 18, Brenda and Gary divorced. She then joined the United States Army, a career that would last 23 years. During her time working at Camp Ripley, she met her second husband, Robert Tretter. The two were married October 6, 1989 and to this union a daughter, Lindsey, was born. 

Brenda is survived by two daughters, Melanie Pierzinski and Lindsey Tretter; mother, Shirley Feakes; one grandson, Hunter Adamski; two sisters, Sheri LaCroix and Elsie (Duane) Miller; one brother, Wally Head; three stepsons and their families, Robert, Scott and Troy Tretter and many nieces and nephews.

She was preceded in death by her husband, Robert Tretter; father, Byron Head and one brother, William “Billy” Head. 

Arrangements are by the Emblom Brenny Funeral Service.

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