Paul Henry Bruns (1984)

ALLGEYER, BRUNS, COX, KENNEDY, MCKINNEY, MELROY, PAGE, WILLIAMS

Posted By: Pat Hochstetler
Date: 1/2/2006 at 10:01:10

Winterset Madisonian
Winterset, Iowa
Wednesday, September 26, 1984
Page 4

Services for Paul Henry Bruns, 66, Eldridge, Iowa, who died Sept. 23 at St. Luke's Hospital in Davenport, were held Wednesday morning, Sept. 26 at the St. Joseph's Catholic Church with the Rev. Maurice Schulte officiating. Burial was at the Chase-McDonald Cemetery.

Born in Winterset Feb. 7, 1918, he was the son of Joseph and Jennie Allgeyer Bruns.

He engaged in farming, trucking and was a soil conservation technician with the Soil Conservation Service office for 25 years before retiring July 25, 1981.

Mr. Bruns lived most of his life in Madison County, but moved to Toledo, Iowa March 1, 1970 and then to Eldridge in 1982. He was a member of St. Joseph's Catholic Church in Winterset, St. Patrick's Church at Tama while living in Toledo, a former board member of the Lakeview Country Club, a member of the Davenport chapter of NARFE, and the Tama-Toledo Country Club.

On April 21, 1939, he was married to Arleta Cox at Winterset.

Survivors include his wife; a son, Thomas of New Paris, Ohio; a daughter, Marcia McKinney of Eldridge; a brother, Robert of Karlsruhe, Germany; sisters, Mary Jo Williams of California City, Calif., Nora Mae Page of Livingston, Texas, Genevieve Melroy of Winterset and Dorothy Kennedy of Le City, Minn.; four grandchildren and one great-grandchild.

He was preceded in death by his parents, a daughter, two brothers and a sister.

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