Mercer County native Peter Brennan was born in Trenton and grew up in Hamilton. He attended Our Lady of Sorrows School, Hamilton; was a 1966 graduate of Notre Dame High School, Lawrenceville, and earned a bachelor’s degree in education from The College of New Jersey, Ewing. He has been married to his wife, Linda, for 46 years and has been a member of Incarnation-St. James Parish, Ewing, for 45 years. He spent 33 years working for the Hopewell Valley School System as a teacher, administrator, coach, and class advisor. He retired in 2003.
Since retiring, Brennan has devoted much of his time to volunteer work. Since 2003, he has been a weekly volunteer at St. Mary’s Assisted Living at Morris Hall, Lawrenceville, offering a current events program and serving as a social companion. As a member of the Morris Hall Community Service Board, he has served as treasurer, hosted social events at his home for residents, such as barbecues, holiday parties and homemade soup luncheons.
Other agencies to whom he has offered his assistance include Interfaith Caregivers of Greater Mercer County for the past three years, and from 2006 until 2009, he worked with the founders of The Capital Prep Charter School in Trenton, which he helped to establish and currently serves on the school board. He has also spent three years serving as an extraordinary minister of Holy Communion to patients at Capital Health Hospital in Trenton.
Over the years at Incarnation-St. James, Brennan has worked on two major fundraising campaigns for the school, which is now closed, as well as the parish where he has been a member of the finance council, parish council, chairperson of the stewardship committee, a reader, and extraordinary minister of Holy Communion. For the past three years, he has also served the parish as chairperson of the parish’s Faith in Our Future campaign team, and chairperson for the Cohort 9 parishes.
Brennan’s hobbies include reading, golf, fantasy baseball and refinishing discarded furniture, selling it at discounted prices for those in need.
Peter and his family would like to thank Trinitarian Father Thomas Morris, pastor of Incarnation-St. James Parish, and the committee for selecting him to be recognized by the Mount Carmel Guild.