Yolo County CA Obituary Project Obituaries.....BRUHN, Elmer R.  January 21 1985
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“Winters Express,” Thursday, January 24, 1985
Elmer R. Bruhn  

Funeral services today for Elmer Bruhn

Funeral services for Elmer R. Bruhn, 93, will be held at the Pioneer
Presbyterian Church in Winters today (Thursday) at 11 a.m.  Rev. Susan Fleenor
and Rev. John Reimers will officiate.

Survivors include his wife, Mabel F. Bruhn, of the family home in Winters; three
children, Meredith F. Bruhn of Winters, Reva E. Stafford and E. Gordon Bruhn,
both of Sacramento; two brothers, Vernon Bruhn of Winters and Clyde Bruhn of
Sacramento; one sister, Mrs. Beryl Harrington of Winters; first grandchildren
and eight great-grandchildren.

The funeral will take place on the couple’s 65th wedding anniversary.

Interment will take place at the Winters Cemetery following the services. 
Arrangements are under the direction of Smith’s Colonial Chapel.

Mr. Bruhn was born near Winters in the Buckeye District on May 9, 1891.  He
worked in the Monticello Valley, Napa County, as a young man driving the old
“schooner” mule teams and wagons which hauled freight, grain and livestock from
Monticello to Napa and Winters.

He married his wife of almost 65 years, Mabel Frances Van Amber of Monticello
January 24, 1920.  Their wedding was held at Mabel’s sister’s (Alice Morlan) and
her husband’s home on East Main Street in Winters.  They made their first home
in Davis.  Later they moved to Monticello and in 1927 to 109 Baker Street where
they lived continuously since.

Elmer began his own plumbing business in 1936 on Railroad Avenue where the old
Buckhorn Dining Room was located.  In 1939 he moved to the former Plymouth
showroom on Railroad Avenue.  In 1951 he purchased property at 820 Railroad
Avenue and built a new building.  Later he took his son, Gordon, in as a partner
and continued the plumbing business and eventually the pump and water systems. 
In November 1960, Elmer R. Bruhn & Son became wholesalers for Myers Pumps.

Elmer continued to go to the office every day until January 11 of this year when
he became too ill to continue.  He was admitted to Sutter Davis Hospital on
January 19 and died quietly in his sleep on January 21. 


Additional Comments:
Submitted with the permission of the “Winters Express,” 312 Railroad Ave.,
Winters, CA 95694.  

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