When he was 12 years of age, he became a member of the Reorganized Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints at Pawnee City, Neb. In 1940, he was ordained to the office of Priest.
In Pawnee County, Nebraska, he attended rural school through the elementary grades, until he moved with his family in 1917 to a farm near Genoa, Colo. Here, he attended high school and was graduated in 1920. March 26, 1925, he was united in marriage to Lucille Milem, and they made their home on a farm near Genoa. In 1943, they moved to with their family to a farm north of Cameron. Mr. Bruch was a substitute rural mail carrier for many years, and at one time substituted on every rural route out of Cameron.
Survivors include his wife, Lucille; five daughters, Mrs. Cebert Young [Mary Lou], Independence, Mrs. Wayne King, [Ann], and Mrs. Richard Barry, [Barbara], both of Cameron, Mrs. Walter Gooding [Peggy], Paoli, Pa; and Mrs. James Briggs [Dottie], Palo Alto, Calif., two brothers, Page John Bruch, Cameron, and James Garfield Bruch, Genoa, Colo., three sisters, Mrs. Eleanore Sarah Elefson, Butler, Mo., Mrs. Ruth Self, Genoa, Colo., and Mrs. Mary Elizabeth [Bessie] Nolan, San Jose, Calif.; also ten granddaughters and three grandsons, nieces and nephews.
Preceding him in death was one son, Howard Milem Bruch in 1950, at the age of 20.
Posted in The Cameron Sun (Cameron, Missouri) – Thu., May 2, 1963.
Contributor: Vicki Knight-Smith, Bessie's granddaughter, April 2021.
When he was 12 years of age, he became a member of the Reorganized Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints at Pawnee City, Neb. In 1940, he was ordained to the office of Priest.
In Pawnee County, Nebraska, he attended rural school through the elementary grades, until he moved with his family in 1917 to a farm near Genoa, Colo. Here, he attended high school and was graduated in 1920. March 26, 1925, he was united in marriage to Lucille Milem, and they made their home on a farm near Genoa. In 1943, they moved to with their family to a farm north of Cameron. Mr. Bruch was a substitute rural mail carrier for many years, and at one time substituted on every rural route out of Cameron.
Survivors include his wife, Lucille; five daughters, Mrs. Cebert Young [Mary Lou], Independence, Mrs. Wayne King, [Ann], and Mrs. Richard Barry, [Barbara], both of Cameron, Mrs. Walter Gooding [Peggy], Paoli, Pa; and Mrs. James Briggs [Dottie], Palo Alto, Calif., two brothers, Page John Bruch, Cameron, and James Garfield Bruch, Genoa, Colo., three sisters, Mrs. Eleanore Sarah Elefson, Butler, Mo., Mrs. Ruth Self, Genoa, Colo., and Mrs. Mary Elizabeth [Bessie] Nolan, San Jose, Calif.; also ten granddaughters and three grandsons, nieces and nephews.
Preceding him in death was one son, Howard Milem Bruch in 1950, at the age of 20.
Posted in The Cameron Sun (Cameron, Missouri) – Thu., May 2, 1963.
Contributor: Vicki Knight-Smith, Bessie's granddaughter, April 2021.
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