Brenda Gay Gillespie, daughter of the late Theo Poindexter and Natalie Hendrix Poindexter, was born on June 11, 1961, in Sikeston, Missouri, and departed this life on August 26, 2024, at Mercy Hospital Stoddard in Dexter, Missouri, at the age of 63 years.

Mrs. Gillespie was an employee of Missouri Delta Medical Center in Sikeston, she was a member of the Dexter Church of Christ, and a resident of Dexter.

On May 24, 1986, in Sikeston, Missouri, she was united in marriage to Kyle Gillespie. Mr. Gillespie survives of their home in Dexter.

Along with her husband, she is survived by her son, Tyler Gillespie and wife Danielle of Arnold, Missouri; by her brother, Roger Poindexter of Nashville, Tennessee; by her sister, Anita Poindexter of Sikeston, Missouri; and by two grandchildren, Zayne Gillespie and Brayden Gillespie.

No services are currently planned.