Renetta Prebluda Obituary (2008) - Overland Park, Kansas

Renetta Prebluda, 91, a resident of Overland Park, Kansas, died peacefully on Sunday, August 31st. Graveside services will be at 2:00pm Wednesday, September 3, at Fountain Lawn Memorial Park in Trenton, New Jersey. Donations can be made in her memory to Village Shalom, 5500 W. 123rd Street, Overland Park, Kansas, 66209 or Kansas City Hospice House, 12000 Wornall Road, Kansas City, Missouri, 64145. Renetta was born July 28, 1917, in Trenton New Jersey to Abel and Rose Berkman. She resided in Trenton for over sixty years where she owned and operated The Baby Carriage Factory Store, a business her father founded. In 1946, she married the late Dr. Harry Jacob Prebluda, a Biochemist from Fall River, Massachusetts. They had two children, Jeffrey and Ellen. Her brother, Nathaniel Berkman, also of Trenton, New Jersey, preceded Renetta in death. Renetta is survived by her son Dr. Jeffrey Prebluda and his wife Marjory of West Hartford, Connecticut and her daughter Ellen Chilton and her husband Dr. Jonathan of Leawood , Kansas as well as six grandchildren Aaron, Leah, Anna, and Alexander, Ilana and Jonah. Renetta will be remembered for her contagious laughter, her generous heart and her compassion for family and friends.