KENNEBUNK – Brenda Jane Morello, 80, of Kennebunk, died Tuesday, Feb. 9, 2021 at Gosnell Memorial Hospice House in Scarborough following a period of failing health.

Brenda was born Sept. 3, 1940 in Lewiston, the daughter of Peter James and Virginia Irene Saunders DeRosa, and attended local schools in Everett, Mass. She married her high school sweetheart, Tom Morello, in Everett in 1958. They would buy their first house in Saugus, Mass. in 1968, where they would live for 36 years. She went on to attend Northeast Metropolitan Regional Vocational School in Wakefield, Mass, then Salem Hospital nursing program to earn her licensed practical nursing degree in 1979.

Brenda was employed briefly as a nurse with the Shaughnessy Rehabilitation Hospital in Massachusetts, before joining an allergist physician in Salem, Mass. in 1985, a practice she stayed with until 2004, when she and her husband Thomas moved first to Lyman, then Kennebunk, while working with Dr. David Hurst’s office in Scarborough, until her retirement in 2013.

Brenda is a communicant of Holy Spirit Parish, St. Martha’s church in Kennebunk.

She is predeceased by her husband, Thomas Rocco Morello, who died in 2018.

Survivors include her sons, Mark Thomas Morello of Rumford, and Steven Peter Morello of Tunbridge, Vt., her daughter, Kim Denise Mitchell and her husband, Douglas of Bloomington, Ind.; her grandchildren, Antony Morello, Thomas Mitchell, Jackson Mitchell, and Rebecca Morello.

A period of visitation and funeral mass will be celebrated in the spring when all can travel and gather safely.

To share a memory or leave a message of condolence, please visit Brenda’s Book of Memories Page at http://www.bibberfuneral.com.

Arrangements are in care of Bibber Memorial Chapel, 67 Summer St., Kennebunk, ME 04043.

Should friends desire, memorial contributions may be made to

Alzheimer’s Association – Maine Chapter,

383 US Route One, Suite 2C,

Scarborough, ME.04074