Marion Nelson Bruce (1975)

BRUCE, BURTON, MILLER, PETERSON, POTTER

Posted By: Kent Transier
Date: 8/4/2024 at 11:09:51

The Rapid City Journal
Rapid City, South Dakota
Sunday, February 16, 1975
Page 2, Column 2

Marion N. Bruce

MC INTOSH – Services for Marion Nelson Bruce, 76, who died Wednesday at the University of Minnesota hospital, will be 2 p.m. Sunday at First Presbyterian Church in McIntosh with the Rev. Robert Duryee officiating.

Burial will be at noon Monday in Black Hills National Cemetery near Sturgis with Masonic graveside rites. Interment will be under the direction of Evanson-Jensen Funeral Home.

Bruce was born Jan. 31, 1899 at Winterset, Iowa, to Richard and Bertha Bruce. He moved with his family to Wall in 1904 where he attended schools.

He finished high school at the School of Mines and Technology in Rapid City and graduated from South Dakota State College in 1921.

He married Alvera Peterson Dec. 5, 1925 at Custer. They made their home in Scenic and in 1933 Bruce went to work for the Bureau of Indian Affairs as an agricultural agent, serving for 13 years.

In 1945 he moved to McIntosh, where he had lived since. Locally Bruce was a member of the Order of Eastern Star, Masonic bodies and American Legion Post. He was an Army veteran of World Wars I and II.

Other interests included sponsorship of the water fluoridation program which he organized and followed through the state legislature until its final passage. He also promoted weather modification and was chairman of the State Weather Modification Board for several years.

He attended First Presbyterian Church in McIntosh and was a member of the State Historical Society.

Survivors include his widow, Alvera, McIntosh; daughter, Mrs. Burton (Marianne) Miller, Huron; two sons, Donald, McIntosh, and Richard, Cincinnati, Ohio; eight grandchildren, two sisters, Mrs. Leone Potter, Lead, and Mrs. Helen Burton, Carroll, Iowa, and step-mother, Mrs. Emma Bruce, Rapid City.

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