Obit of Bruce, Andrew Milton (b620) - Wagoner County, Oklahoma Submitted by: Vivian Kessler 29 Aug 2004 Return to Wagoner County Archives: http://www.usgwarchives.net/ok/wagoner/wagoner.html ========================================================================== USGENWEB NOTICE Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm ========================================================================== From the Coweta Times-Star, June 9, 1960, page 1 Services Held Sunday At Shahan For A. M. Bruce Funeral services were held Sunday afternoon in the Shahan Free Will Baptist Church west of Coweta for A. M. Bruce, who died Thursday in a rest home in Broken Arrow. Dick Wallace, a Jehovah Witness minister from Self Unit Kingdom Hall in Tulsa, officiated. Music was furnished by a trio from the church in Tulsa. Pallbearers were George Bryan and Willis Bell of Coweta, Walter Pitts and Verne Reese of Wagoner, Peter Butrus of Muskogee and Bill Atkins of Tahlequah. Interment was made in Shahan Cemetery under the direction of Wright Funeral Home. Andrew Milton Bruce was born in Ripley County, Missouri on October 29, 1889 and died June 2, 1960 in Broken Arrow, Okla., aged 70 years, 7 month and 3 days. He was united in marriage on November 29, 1913 to Ivy Pearl Newton. To this union six children were born. The Bruce family moved to Coweta from Missouri in 1920. Mr. Bruce was a blacksmith by trade. Survivors include the wife, Ivy Pearl of the home, two sons, Robert W. of Stillwater, Okla., and William A. of East Orange, N.J.; four daughters, Mrs. Vivian Carter of Schenectady, N.Y., Mrs. Margaret Anna Williamson of Lodi, Calif., Elizabeth Pearl Rogers of Kansas City, Mo., and June Augustine Krinkle [sic] of Beaver Dam, Wis.; two sisters, Mrs. Anna Hunt of Coweta and Mrs. Belle York of Twin Falls, Idaho; two brothers, Richard Bruce of Kentucky and Frank Bruce of Missouri; 14 grand children and one great grandchild. ========== Submitted by Vivian Bruce Kessler granddaughter of Andrew Milton Bruce -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Return to Wagoner County Archives: http://www.usgwarchives.net/ok/wagoner/wagoner.html