Brenda Whitaker Pujol

Warren Holloway Ward

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Posted by: Warren Holloway Ward FH
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Date: Sep 26 2016 3:42 PM

Brenda Whitaker Pujol died Sunday, September 25, 2016, after a long battle with breast cancer. She was 58 years old.

Brenda was born October 23, 1957, in Geneva to the late Paul and Pauline Ellis Whitaker. She attended Geneva schools and was a 1976 graduate of Geneva High School. She graduated from the printing program at Washington-Holmes Area Vocational Technical Center (now Florida Panhandle Technical College) in 1981, when she was named the center’s outstanding student of the year.

She worked at Chipley Newspapers from 1981 until 2006 as advertising director and eventually co-publisher of the Washington County News and Holmes County Times-Advertiser, having co-founded the Holmes County Times with her husband, Moe, in 1989. She loved all of her clients and always went the extra mile to serve them to the best of her ability, which was the key to her success. She won several advertising awards and was privileged to have her photographic work featured in People magazine on two occasions.

In 2008, Brenda and her husband bought The Opp News and Geneva County’s newspapers, the Geneva County Reaper, Hartford News-Herald, The Samson Ledger and Geneva County Shopper with their recently formed company, Pujol Printing & Publishing LLC.

Brenda was a “people person” who attributed her success to the fact that she was genuinely interested in the success and well being of her clients and didn’t approach every sale as a mere business transaction. She was loved by people, and she loved people. That’s just who she was.

Brenda was a member of Mt. ida Congregational Methodist Church, where Moe serves as pastor. Brenda is survived by her husband, Moe Pujol of Geneva;  a daughter, Courtney Norman of Phenix City; two stepsons, Barry Pujol of Tallahassee and Brad Pujol (Leah) of Chipley; two grandchildren, Paul Thomas Norman and Caroline Julia Norman of Phenix City; a sister, Mary Ann Whitaker of Skipperville.

Visitation will be Wednesday, Sept. 28, at Warren-Holloway-Ward Funeral Home in Geneva from 6-8 p.m. Funeral services will be at 10 a.m. Thursday, Sept. 29, at First United Methodist Church of Geneva with Revs. John Dickinson, Jake Brady and Moe Pujol officiating. Burial will follow at Mt. Ida Congregational Methodist Church cemetery with Warren-Holloway-Ward Funeral Home directing.

Pallbearers will be Ben Vickers, Alan Keeton, Don Lusk, Russell Goodson, Stephen Byrd and Philip Byrd.

 

Warren~Holloway~Ward Funeral Home (334) 684-9999, is in charge of arrangements. "Continuing The Trust You’ve Placed In Us” To sign a guest register, please visit: www.whwfuneralhome.com

 

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