Obit of Bruner, Iris Jennings - Leflore County, Oklahoma Submitted by: Gene Phillips 11 Jun 2006 Return to Leflore County Archives: http://www.usgwarchives.net/ok/leflore/leflore.htm ========================================================================== USGENWEB NOTICE Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm ========================================================================== ::Mount Olivet Cemetery--?? Bruner, Iris Jennings 1905 - 2004 Iris Jennings Bruner, 99, a homemaker, passed away Sunday, Dec. 19, 2004, after a short illness. Funeral: 1:30 p.m. Wednesday in Mount Olivet Chapel. Burial: Mount Olivet Cemetery. The Rev. Jay Bruner of Centerpoint Church and the Rev. George Dixon of North Richland Hills Baptist Church will officiate. Memorials: The family requests that memorials be made to the James Bruner TK Ranch for Mentally Handicapped Adults, Box 879, Bowie, Texas 76230. Iris was born on March 25, 1905, in Caddo Mills. Her family moved to Cameron, Okla., when she was a child. A few years later, her family moved to Fort Worth, where she lived ever since. She married Julius C. Bruner in 1930. She and her husband owned Bruner's Department Store in North Fort Worth, and were founders of the Northeast National Bank in North Richland Hills. They also owned the Bruner's Edgeworth Stock Farms in Fort Worth and imported the first Black Angus cattle from Scotland. Mr. and Mrs. Bruner helped establish the Evangelical Methodist Church in America and started the First Evangelical Methodist church in Fort Worth, which is now Grace Community Church in Haltom City. In her later years, she attended Glenview Baptist Church, North Richland Hills Baptist Church and Centerpoint Church. She and her husband built Bruner Jessup Apartments at Asbury College in Willmore, Kentucky, and the Bruner-Hamilton Library at Venard College in University Park, Iowa, and gave other large gifts to universities, colleges and churches across the nation. Both she and her husband were active in the Boy Scouts of America. Her passionate care for children and especially the mentally challenged led her to found the James Bruner TK Ranch for the Mentally Handicapped in Sunset, and to consistently support the Special Olympics. She was preceded in death by her husband, and a son, James Clifton Bruner. She loved her God, her family, and the church. Survivors: Sons, Julius "Jay" Bruner and wife, Lucy, of Hurst, Kenneth L. Bruner and wife, Martha, of Granbury; grandchildren, Kip Bruner and wife, Rene, Chuck Bruner and wife, Janet, Julie Avary and husband, Sam, Jay Kirk Bruner and wife, Regina, Cathy Witham and husband, Kevin, Kristy Autrey and husband, Brett, Kelly Harris and husband, Rodney, Christann Rinn and husband, Randy, and Kenneth L. Bruner and wife, Gaye; great-grandchildren, Pepper Bruner, Lauren Bruner, Candace Garner and husband, Chris, Catie Bruner, Blake Avary, Bryce Avary, Tiffany Avary, Desire Bruner, Cole Bruner, DeAnn Witham, Kyle Witham, Nathan Autrey, Samantha Harris and Sidney Harris, Tyler Putnam and Matt Putnam; and great-great-grandson, Braeden Bruner. Published in the Star-Telegram on 12/21/2004. -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Return to LeFlore County Archives: http://www.usgwarchives.net/ok/leflore/leflore.htm