The Herald of Truth , Vol. XXXVI, No. 8, April 15, 1899 - pages 124-126

BRUNK. - Magdalena, wife of Pre. Christian Brunk of Winchester, Va., died March 15th, 1899, aged 75 years, 1 month and 23 days. She was brought up in Rockingham Co., Va., and was the daughter of Christian Brenneman. She has one brother and four sisters living; and besides her husband, she leaves four sons and two daughters, also twenty three grandchildren and four great-grandchildren. Sister Brunk lived happily in matrimony for fifty-five years, and was a consistent member of the Mennonite Church for fifty-four years. She was indeed a mother in Israel and her place at meeting was seldom vacant, and by her untiring efforts to do good to all she came in contact with, she will be remembered by many, and by her aged companion she will be sadly missed, as they had traveled together so many years that he said he longed to go with her on this journey also. When he knew she would never again return to him and help and comfort him, he felt to say with Job of old, "The Lord gave and the Lord hath taken away. Blessed be the name of the Lord." She was buried on the 18th. A short service was held at the house by Lewis Shank of Broadway, text, 1 Cor. 13:13, then her remains were taken to Rockingham Co., where she was buried In the old Brenneman graveyard by the side of her three children who had preceded her. Services at the New Brenneman M. H. by L. J. Heatwole, Abram Shank and others. Text, Mark 13, latter part.

We saw not the angels who met her there,
The gates of the city we could not see,
Over the river our mother dear
Our mother stands waiting for me.

And she is just our loved one still,
And loves us now no less,
She goes away to come again
To watch us and to bless.