Son of James and Esther Stitt Bruell. Married first Nellie Gasaway Repp. Married second Hazel A. Bishop.
Peru Daily Tribune, September 28, 1951:
Elzie R. Bruell, 55, of 30 W. Boulevard, a retired Wabash Railroad engineer, died at 8:20 p.m., Thursday, at the Fort Wayne Veteran's Hospital, of complications. He was ill two years.
A lifelong resident of Miami county, Mr. Bruell was a veteran of World War I and a member of the First Baptist church, B. of L. F. and E, American Legion, Moose lodge, and Peru Male Chorus.
He was born Aug. 19, 1896, in Butler township, a son of James and Esther (Stitt) Bruell. He married Hazel Hutton March 10, 1945. She survives. Other survivors are, a stepson, Gene Repp, of Memphis, Tenn.; a brother, Elmer Bruell, of Route 2, and a sister, Mrs. Lucille Caltz of Detroit. Three sisters and two brothers preceded him in death. The body is at the Eikenberry funeral home, where friends may call after 7 p.m., Saturday.
Funeral services will be conducted at 2 p.m., Monday, from the funeral home, the Rev. Gary Allbritten officiating.
Burial will be Mount Hope cemetery.
(Jo White, #47016498)
Peru Daily Tribune, September 28, 1951:
Elzie R. Bruell, 55, of 30 W. Boulevard, a retired Wabash Railroad engineer, died at 8:20 p.m., Thursday, at the Fort Wayne Veteran's Hospital, of complications. He was ill two years.
A lifelong resident of Miami county, Mr. Bruell was a veteran of World War I and a member of the First Baptist church, B. of L. F. and E, American Legion, Moose lodge, and Peru Male Chorus.
He was born Aug. 19, 1896, in Butler township, a son of James and Esther (Stitt) Bruell. He married Hazel Hutton March 10, 1945. She survives. Other survivors are, a stepson, Gene Repp, of Memphis, Tenn.; a brother, Elmer Bruell, of Route 2, and a sister, Mrs. Lucille Caltz of Detroit. Three sisters and two brothers preceded him in death. The body is at the Eikenberry funeral home, where friends may call after 7 p.m., Saturday.
Funeral services will be conducted at 2 p.m., Monday, from the funeral home, the Rev. Gary Allbritten officiating.
Burial will be Mount Hope cemetery.
(Jo White, #47016498)
Son of James and Esther Stitt Bruell. Married first Nellie Gasaway Repp. Married second Hazel A. Bishop.
Peru Daily Tribune, September 28, 1951:
Elzie R. Bruell, 55, of 30 W. Boulevard, a retired Wabash Railroad engineer, died at 8:20 p.m., Thursday, at the Fort Wayne Veteran's Hospital, of complications. He was ill two years.
A lifelong resident of Miami county, Mr. Bruell was a veteran of World War I and a member of the First Baptist church, B. of L. F. and E, American Legion, Moose lodge, and Peru Male Chorus.
He was born Aug. 19, 1896, in Butler township, a son of James and Esther (Stitt) Bruell. He married Hazel Hutton March 10, 1945. She survives. Other survivors are, a stepson, Gene Repp, of Memphis, Tenn.; a brother, Elmer Bruell, of Route 2, and a sister, Mrs. Lucille Caltz of Detroit. Three sisters and two brothers preceded him in death. The body is at the Eikenberry funeral home, where friends may call after 7 p.m., Saturday.
Funeral services will be conducted at 2 p.m., Monday, from the funeral home, the Rev. Gary Allbritten officiating.
Burial will be Mount Hope cemetery.
(Jo White, #47016498)
Peru Daily Tribune, September 28, 1951:
Elzie R. Bruell, 55, of 30 W. Boulevard, a retired Wabash Railroad engineer, died at 8:20 p.m., Thursday, at the Fort Wayne Veteran's Hospital, of complications. He was ill two years.
A lifelong resident of Miami county, Mr. Bruell was a veteran of World War I and a member of the First Baptist church, B. of L. F. and E, American Legion, Moose lodge, and Peru Male Chorus.
He was born Aug. 19, 1896, in Butler township, a son of James and Esther (Stitt) Bruell. He married Hazel Hutton March 10, 1945. She survives. Other survivors are, a stepson, Gene Repp, of Memphis, Tenn.; a brother, Elmer Bruell, of Route 2, and a sister, Mrs. Lucille Caltz of Detroit. Three sisters and two brothers preceded him in death. The body is at the Eikenberry funeral home, where friends may call after 7 p.m., Saturday.
Funeral services will be conducted at 2 p.m., Monday, from the funeral home, the Rev. Gary Allbritten officiating.
Burial will be Mount Hope cemetery.
(Jo White, #47016498)
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