Wannetta Mae (Lowell) Bannister

BRANDON:

Wannetta Mae Bannister, age 71, passed Saturday, March 8, 2025, at Central Vermont Hospital in Berlin.

Wannetta was born in Middlebury on July 12, 1953. She was the daughter of Percy and Edith (Jones) Lowell. She grew up in Brandon where she received her early education and graduated from Otter Valley Union High School, class of 1971. October 23, 1971, she married Donald Bannister in Brandon. She had worked for many years at Brandon Training School and later for Nexus Corporation. They moved to Wildwood, FL where she continued working in the electronics business in Sumterville, FL. She afterwards worked as a teller at the First Federal Bank in Wildwood, FL, where she was robbed at gunpoint. She then decided to get out of the banking business and began working as a toll collector for the State of Florida. She later worked as a Pharmacy Tech in Wildwood until retirement. She was a past member of the Ladies Auxiliary Unit 55 Brandon American Legion.

She is surviving is her son; Kenneth Bannister of N. Chittenden, 2 step-sons; Donald Bannister, Jr and Leonard Bannister both of St. Albans and a step-daughter; Helen Columb of Leesburg, FL, a sister; Wanda Martin of Brandon and a brother; Werdna Lowell of Dennison, TX. Several nieces, nephews & cousins also survive her. She was predeceased by her husband; Donald on May 3, 2009 and her parents.

The memorial service “In Celebration of Her Life” will be held on March 22, 2025, at 12 noon, at the Miller & Ketcham Funeral Home in Brandon.

Graveside committal service and burial will follow the service at the family lot in the  Pine Hill cemetery, Brandon.

Memorial gifts in lieu of flowers may be made, in her memory to; Rutland County Humane Society, 765 Stevens Road, Pittsford, VT 05763.