Poppie's Playground-Memorial Fund Brent Waguespack

"Poppie's Playground" Fund- in Memory of Brent Waguespack at St. Paul's Lutheran Church & St. Paul's Children's Day Out

After losing Brent (Poppie) suddenly in July of 2022, the family decided what better way to honor him than by sharing the joy and laughter that a playground brings! The future playground will be established on the church grounds of St. Paul's Lutheran Church in NW Oklahoma City and utilized by community events, and the St. Paul's Children's Day Out and the children that attend weekly Sunday and Wednesday activities.

The family requests that any monetary donations be made to the ‘Playground Fund’ at St. Paul's Lutheran Church. You may send checks or bring cash to the church office with a note of “Brent Waguespack Memorial or Poppie's Playground" or through this GoFund Me.

If an electronic donation needs to be made outside of GoFundMe, then the family/ church leaders can also accept; Venmo, CashApp, or Paypal.

Checks can be mailed to:

St. Paul’s Lutheran Church

10600 N Council Road

OKC, OK 73162

www.stpaulsokc.com

Additional bio/ obituary info about Brent's life and family below:

Roy Brent Waguespack was born July 29, 1951 to Roy T. Waguespack and Connie Waguespack in Tulsa, OK. He was soon joined by his sister, Lisa Joy. His dad coached him as a pitcher in baseball, he played football in junior high, and became a state champion swimmer in High School. He and Marci met in Intermediate Algebra and became High School sweethearts after Marci asked Brent to a “Sadie Hawkins” dance. Brent became an OU Sooner and he earned his BBA. Marci followed and they married in 1972. They moved back to Tulsa for Marci to do a Med Tech Internship, and Brent went back to school to OSU Tech to study electronics. In 1977, they moved back to OKC and he accepted a job with Control Data/ Honeywell, which later morphed into Magnetic Peripherals INC-> BancTec. He became more interested in computers and became a certified specialist and eventually a LAN Engineer, for NCED. Brent dedicated his life to Christ while he was in High School. In his adult church life, he taught adult SS, sang in the choir, served on the mowing team, and served as a Youth prayer partner. Brent volunteered as a Reading Tutor, with Elementary students at Harvest Hills HHELP Program. He also volunteered with the American Red Cross after the last big Moore tornado, and the Oklahoma Foundation for Excellence.

After a diagnosis of Multiple Myeloma in 2018, he underwent chemotherapy and a Stem Cell transplant in June of 2018. He has happily been in remission for the last 4 years. His retirement job has been as a school crossing guard at DD Kirkland Elementary School where he felt much appreciated by the parents, students and staff. He came home with a new “kid” story almost every night.

Brent was a great son, brother, husband, Dad and Poppie, and always so devoted to his family. His legacy is his family; he and his wife Marci celebrated their 50th year anniversary in January of 2022. He is also survived by his son Martin Waguespack, his daughter Laura Emily, and son-in-law Jim Labus, grandson Luke, and granddaughters Madelynn Joy, and Nora Jane Labus. He is also best loved by his kid sister Lisa Sykes, and brother-law Donnie Sykes, sister in law Marianne Adams, brother in law Ray Sinclair, and all of his extended family.

Roy Brent Waguespack

7/29/1951-7/4/22

Brent's Obituary Site thru Smith and Kernke

YouTube Video Below is a slideshow (7m42sec in length) from pics with Brent Waguespack through his life-span.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e5n7cLI2x3M

If you could not attend Brent's Celebration of Life services, you can contact the fundraiser's organizers, and we will get you a link to the Zoom recording.

Lastly, thanks for all the care, love, food, flowers, plants, cards and support you have shown our family!