Services for Danny Rothwell Brune, 87, Lawrence, will be at 1 p.m. Saturday at Rumsey-Yost Funeral Home. Cremation will follow.
Mr. Brune died Wednesday, March 28, 2007, at his home.
He was born Oct. 15, 1920, in Douglas County, the son of Gus W. and Doris Rothwell Brune. He grew up in the Midland area. He graduated from Kansas University in 1943 with a degree in mechanical engineering.
Mr. Brune worked for an aircraft plant in Texas and as an engineer in New York. He later worked for an auto manufacturer in Detroit and as an engineer at Sunflower Ordnance Works in De Soto. He returned in 1947 to Kansas, where he continued farming. He served on the Midland school board and Kaw Valley Drainage District for 35 years.
He married Elizabeth Josephine "Betty Jo" Svoboda on Nov. 6, 1943. She survives, of the home.
Other survivors include three sons, Daniel C., Tempe, Ariz., Albert W., Lawrence, and Stewart F., Seattle; a daughter, Marilyn J., Eudora; a brother, Harold, Jefferson County; a sister, Ruth Sherwood Bowlin, Olathe; five grandchildren; and two great-grandchildren.
Saturday, March 31, 2007 ljworld
Mr. Brune died Wednesday, March 28, 2007, at his home.
He was born Oct. 15, 1920, in Douglas County, the son of Gus W. and Doris Rothwell Brune. He grew up in the Midland area. He graduated from Kansas University in 1943 with a degree in mechanical engineering.
Mr. Brune worked for an aircraft plant in Texas and as an engineer in New York. He later worked for an auto manufacturer in Detroit and as an engineer at Sunflower Ordnance Works in De Soto. He returned in 1947 to Kansas, where he continued farming. He served on the Midland school board and Kaw Valley Drainage District for 35 years.
He married Elizabeth Josephine "Betty Jo" Svoboda on Nov. 6, 1943. She survives, of the home.
Other survivors include three sons, Daniel C., Tempe, Ariz., Albert W., Lawrence, and Stewart F., Seattle; a daughter, Marilyn J., Eudora; a brother, Harold, Jefferson County; a sister, Ruth Sherwood Bowlin, Olathe; five grandchildren; and two great-grandchildren.
Saturday, March 31, 2007 ljworld
Services for Danny Rothwell Brune, 87, Lawrence, will be at 1 p.m. Saturday at Rumsey-Yost Funeral Home. Cremation will follow.
Mr. Brune died Wednesday, March 28, 2007, at his home.
He was born Oct. 15, 1920, in Douglas County, the son of Gus W. and Doris Rothwell Brune. He grew up in the Midland area. He graduated from Kansas University in 1943 with a degree in mechanical engineering.
Mr. Brune worked for an aircraft plant in Texas and as an engineer in New York. He later worked for an auto manufacturer in Detroit and as an engineer at Sunflower Ordnance Works in De Soto. He returned in 1947 to Kansas, where he continued farming. He served on the Midland school board and Kaw Valley Drainage District for 35 years.
He married Elizabeth Josephine "Betty Jo" Svoboda on Nov. 6, 1943. She survives, of the home.
Other survivors include three sons, Daniel C., Tempe, Ariz., Albert W., Lawrence, and Stewart F., Seattle; a daughter, Marilyn J., Eudora; a brother, Harold, Jefferson County; a sister, Ruth Sherwood Bowlin, Olathe; five grandchildren; and two great-grandchildren.
Saturday, March 31, 2007 ljworld
Mr. Brune died Wednesday, March 28, 2007, at his home.
He was born Oct. 15, 1920, in Douglas County, the son of Gus W. and Doris Rothwell Brune. He grew up in the Midland area. He graduated from Kansas University in 1943 with a degree in mechanical engineering.
Mr. Brune worked for an aircraft plant in Texas and as an engineer in New York. He later worked for an auto manufacturer in Detroit and as an engineer at Sunflower Ordnance Works in De Soto. He returned in 1947 to Kansas, where he continued farming. He served on the Midland school board and Kaw Valley Drainage District for 35 years.
He married Elizabeth Josephine "Betty Jo" Svoboda on Nov. 6, 1943. She survives, of the home.
Other survivors include three sons, Daniel C., Tempe, Ariz., Albert W., Lawrence, and Stewart F., Seattle; a daughter, Marilyn J., Eudora; a brother, Harold, Jefferson County; a sister, Ruth Sherwood Bowlin, Olathe; five grandchildren; and two great-grandchildren.
Saturday, March 31, 2007 ljworld
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