Brenda Oxendine Price died on September 10. The Lumbee Tribe and people all over North Carolina were sad about her death. She was 65 years old.
A statement released by the Lumbee Tribe of North Carolina on Sunday said, “Oxendine is honored as the first woman sworn into the North Carolina State Highway Patrol.”
Brenda was the first woman to successfully finish the 20 weeks of basic training in Raleigh that was needed to join the NC Highway Patrol. She did it when she was 21 years old. On March 29, 1980, she was sworn in as a member of the NC State Highway Patrol.
Her biography says that Price went to Richmond Technical Institute and majored in criminal justice. She didn’t finish, though; she went into basic training and worked her way through the Highway Patrol school.
A message released on Sunday said, “Price was a proud member of the Lumbee Tribe of North Carolina.” “She was laid to rest in the Lumbee Tribal Territory in Scotland County.”