Pegeen Brennan died peacefully on Sept. 17 at home, surrounded by family. She was 84 years old. Born in Ashcroft, B.C., she was brought up in Ontario, but she returned to B.C., to Fernie, where her father was a coal miner. She received two degrees from UBC. She wrote poetry and novels, and joined the English Department at UBC, where she met her husband, Lee Whitehead. Pegeen and Lee retired to the Okanagan, where she delighted in horses, cats, and wild birds. Pegeen is survived by her husband; son Paul and his wife Lenore; daughter Lael Whitehead, her husband Richard Iredale, and their daughters Lauren (Blake Wilder), Marlies, and Julia; by a great-grandaughter, Kymera Wilder; by her sister Sandra Gabriel, her brother Desmond Brennan; by her foster daughter, Meltem Brennan; and by numerous nieces, nephews, and cousins.
Condolences and tributes may be directed to the family by visiting www.nunes-pottinger.com
Arrangements entrusted to Nunes-Pottinger Funeral Service & Crematorium, Oliver & Osoyoos
From Remuda, by Pegeen Brennan: “Love” (1977)
LOVE
Do not think love can be coffined
it slips the oak paneling
to course the underground
toward the loved one
Along the way
some crystallizes as quartz
or as coloured gems
some solidifies as silver or gold
Some, like mine for you,
bursts the surface
in joyous streams,
tumbling wild
in diamond cataracts