March 16, 1964 - November 28, 2025

It is with the heaviest of hearts that we announce the passing of the rock of our family, Mrs. Brenda Di Franco (Russell). Born on March 16, 1964 in Thunder Bay ON, Brenda left this world peacefully on Friday, November 28, 2025, at Thunder Bay Regional Health Sciences Centre, with her family holding her hands and surrounding her with love as she concluded a courageous battle with cancer. Even in her final moments, she gifted us with the same grace, strength, and tenderness that defined her life.

From the very beginning, Brenda devoted herself wholeheartedly to the people she loved. Her life was beautifully intertwined with that of her beloved husband of 37 years, Tony, the boy she first met at St. Ann’s Elementary School, the one she grew up alongside a

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