Bruce, Frank J. 1854-1929

BRUCE, PAYNE, PURCELL, REISS, MEILLER, HOUVENAGLE, HURSBERGER, BIDDULPH

Posted By: Marilyn Holmes (email)
Date: 4/24/2010 at 08:40:13

Grinnell Herald (Grinnell, Iowa) Feb. 26, 1929

FRANK BRUCE IS BURIED IN GRINNELL

The body of Frank Bruce whose death in Marshalltown last Thursday was announced in Friday's Herald, was brought to Grinnell for burial Saturday after funeral services had been conducted in Marshalltown by Rev. Mr. Ellis of the Marshalltown M.E. church. Brief services were conducted at the grave in Hazelwood by Rev. H.C. Rice. Pall bearers were C.L. McNally, George Murray, Ed Thompson, Leland Clark, John Anderews and J.R. Rivers.

Frank J. Bruce was born in Putnam county, Illinois, September 9, 1854, and passed away February 21, 1929, at the home of his daughter, Mrs. S.M. Payne, at Marshalltown, after a lingering illness of many months.

Thirty-seven years ago this March, Mr. Bruce and his family came to Iowa and settled on a farm three miles south of Grinnell and with the exception of the past year and a half, spent at the Payne home in Marshalltown, he has lived in the same community.

On June 2, 1880, he was united in marriage with Mary Etta Purcell, who passed away two years ago. Those who are left to survive him are nine children: Mrs. S.M. Payne and Mrs. A.C. Reiss of Marshalltown; Ira M. of Colfax; Mrs. A.D. Meiller of Madison, Wisconsin; Mrs. R.J. Houvenagle of Grinnell; and Walter, Earl, Glen and Mrs. Maurice Hursberger of Des Moines. One sister, Mrs. Ella Biddulph of Dixon, Illinois, also survives him, besides twenty-eight grand-children and two great-grand-children.