Brenna T. Ollivier

Brenna Tamam Ollivier (35) was born with a smile on Monday, June 27, 1983 in Atlanta, Georgia and shortly joined her adoptive family in Washington DC.  She arrived at the airport in a red christening gown into the waiting arms of her forever-family.  On Thursday, February 21, 2019, the now beautiful, young woman was taken from those same loving arms and those of her devoted husband by Polycystic Kidney Disease complicated by Sneddon’s Syndrome.  Even though she lived only 35 years, she more than filled them with joy and love for those fortunate enough to know her.

In her first year, Brenna was off to the Congo for two years with her Foreign Service family.  She subsequently attended school in Spain, Brazil and Virginia before graduating from Silver High School in Silver City, NM.  Brenna excelled in dancing, gymnastics, piano, equestrian, golf, and in competitive shooting.  She valued highly her recent involvement in the Del Norte Gun Club in Rio Rancho.

Brenna studied at Truckee Meadows Junior College in Reno where she met her future husband, Chasen.  She completed the Medical Assistant program at The Bryman School in Phoenix, AZ and worked as a medical assistant in the Lovelace Health System in Albuquerque.  Brenna and Chasen were later married at the Hyde Memorial State Park in the Santa Fe mountains accompanied by friends and family from around the country.  Her closest friends from high school, Andrea Padilla, Alice Bigelow Morris, and Jesse Reiss attended Brenna at the ceremony.

Missing and loving our gifted, beautiful daughter are her parents, Louis and Ginger Ollivier; her husband, Chasen Nye-Lund; sister, Maria Teresa Ollivier Whitehead of Silver City and husband; brother, Roberto Ollivier of Saudi Arabia; two nephews, Brennan and Benni Ollivier; as well as numerous cousins and friends.  According to Brenna’s wishes, she was cremated.  The family will respect her request for private funeral rites.