Bruce Family Burial

Bruce Family Monument

Alice (Huff) Bruce  |  Charles Bruce  |  C. Ron Bruce

Ethelyn Bruce  |   Jacquelyn (Wicks) Bruce  |  Marla (Bruce) Seals

Charles Cochrane2 Bruce

Born: July 29,1877 in Scotland
Died: May 2, 1951 in Palo Alto Twp., Jasper Co., Iowa
Buried: Lot 151, plot 4
Lot Owner: Charles C. Bruce, purchased 1920
Married: Alice Huff on December 13, 1899 in Metz, Jasper Co., Iowa
Children: Glenn, Earl, Charles Ronald, Ethelyn, and Erma
Parents: David and Margaret Bruce

Charles Bruce stone

C. C. Bruce Dies at 73 At Home
Services Friday for Well-Known Farmer;
Was Born In Scotland

Charles C. Bruce, 73, well-known Jasper county farmer who lived about four miles southwest of Newton, died early this morning at his farm home.

Born in Scotland on July 29, 1877, to David and Margaret Bruce, he came to the United States as a young boy with the family. They first settled in Pennsylvania, then moved to a farm near Monroe and when a young man Mr. Bruce moved to Prairie City.

Married 1899

On Dec. 13, 1899, he was married to Alice Mabel Huff near Metz. The couple celebrated their golden wedding anniversary in December 1949. They spent all of their life on the farm except from 1920 to 1923 when they lived in Newton.

Mr. Bruce was a charter member of the Palo Alto Grange and a past master of that group, was a township trustee, belonged to the Elks lodge, Red Men's lodge and was a member of the Methodist church east of Monroe.

Survivors

He is survived by his widow; three sons, Glen, Earl and Ronald, all of Newton; a daughter, Mrs. Erma B. Allen of Des Moines; several grandchildren; four brothers, Andy of Newton, John of Monroe, Robert of Marshalltown and David of Des Moines, and two sisters, Mrs. Burt (Margaret) Turner and Mrs. Percy (Mary) Van Epps, both of Newton.

Mr. Bruce was preceded in death by his parents; one sister, Mrs. Helen Rayburn, and one brother, William Bruce, both of whom died in late March of this year, and one daughter, Evelyn, who died in 1941.

Funeral services will be held Friday afternoon at two o'clock in Johnson-Murdoch Funeral Home. Officiating will be Rev. F. D. Boldt and burial will be in the Sugar Grove cemetery. ~ The Newton Daily Newton, May 2, 1951.

Alice (Huff) Bruce

Born: November 23, 18781 Prairie City, Jasper Co., Iowa
Died: April 3, 1965 in Newton, Jasper Co., Iowa1
Buried: Lot 151, plot 5
Lot Owner: Charles C. Bruce, purchased 1920
Married: Charles Bruce on December 13, 1899 in Metz, Jasper Co., Iowa
Children: Glenn, Earl, Charles Ronald, Ethelyn, and Erma
Parents: Samuel and Mary L. (Johnson) Huff

Allice Huff Bruce monument

Mrs. Alice Bruce Dies at Hospital;
Services Tuesday

Mrs. Charles (Alice) Bruce, 85, of Rt. 4, Newton, a lifelong resident of Jasper County, died Saturday evening at the Skiff Memorial Hospital.

Funeral services will be held at 2 pm. Tuesday at the Morgan - Loehr Funeral Home.

The Rev. Austin Rugger, associate minister of the First Methodist Church will conduct the services. Burial will be in Sugar Grove Cemetery.

Mrs. Bruce will lie in state at the funeral home afternoon today.

Survivors are three sons, Glen C. Bruce, Earl Bruce and Ronald Bruce, all of Newton; a daughter, Mrs. August (Erma) Allen of Des Moines; nine grandchildren and 12 great-grandchildren.

She was preceded in death by her parents; husband; a daughter; brother and sister.

Mrs. Bruce was a charter member of the Palo Alto Grange.

The daughter of Samuel and Mary Carnaby Huff, she was born Nov. 23, 1878 on a farm northeast of Prairie City.

She was married to Charles C. Bruce Dec. 13, 1899 on her parents farm near Prairie City. ~ The Newton Daily News, April 3, 1965.

Mary Ethelyn Bruce2

Born: Apr 9 1903in Jasper Co., Iowa2
Died: 1941
Buried: Lot 151, plot 2
Lot Owner: Charles C. Bruce, purchased in 1920
Parents: Charles and Alice (Huff) Bruce

Ethelyn Bruce tombstone

1. Jasper Co., Iowa Death Record, Book 4, page 461
2. Ancestry Family Tree submitted by Krista Kleinschrodt

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