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Services for Dr. Ruth Bruner, 73, of Monroe will be at 3 p.m. today at First United Methodist Church at Loop Road with Dr. William Blakely officiating.
Burial will be in Mulhearn Memorial Park Cemetery under the direction of Kilpatrick Funeral Home on Lamy Lane of Monroe.
Dr. Bruner died Thursday at North Monroe Community Hospital after a short illness.
A native of Chickasha, Okla., Dr. Bruner had retired after 40 years of teaching. She was head of the Department of office Administration at Northeast Louisiana University for eight years. While at NLU she was selected by the alumni association as outstanding professor for teaching in 1971.
Her other teaching experiences included 18 years at Northwestern State University in Natchitoches and two years at Arizona State University in Temple. She obtained a Bachelor of Science degree from Memphis State University, the masters of Arts degree from Northwestern University in Evanston, Ill., and doctorate from LSU.
She was a member of many professional organizations and active in the Christian Community Ministries of Monroe. She was a member of the First Methodist Church in Monroe.
Survivors include one sister, Lois Beauchamp of Bethel Island, CA. one brother Joe Bruner of Tulsa, OK; three nieces', Naomi May of Scott, AR., Carolyn Voss of Hammond and Suzy Burgess of Marietta, GA., and several great nieces and great nephews.
Pallbearers will be Charles Buck, Dr. Bobby Canterbury, Dr. Robert Harrison, Marcus Mapp, Tom McCann, J. W. Smith, Dr. Dwight Vines and Dr. George Walker.
Memorials may be made to the Ruth Bruner Scholarship Fund in care of the NLU Foundation, Monroe, La. Visitation will be from 9 a.m. until noon at the funeral home and from 1:30 p.m. - 3 p.m. at the church.
Published in The Monroe News-Star World, September 12, 1986 
(Thanks to Sharon Ray for the obituary) 

Residence:
25 October 1945, Dayton, Liberty, Texas, United States
7 June 1946, Evanston, Cook, Illinois, United States
1958, Natchitoches, Natchitoches, Louisiana, USA
1984, Monroe, Ouachita, Louisiana, USA1

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Birth	12 Nov 1912	Chickasha, Grady County, Oklahoma
Census (family)-shared	17 Jan 1920	(Peter Nicholson Bruner and Cora May Holland) Chickasha, Grady County, Oklahoma
Census-shared	18 Apr 1930	(Peter Nicholson Bruner) Brazoria County, Texas
Death	11 Sep 1986	Monroe, Ouachita Parish, Louisiana
Burial		Mulhearn Memorial Park Cemetery, Monroe, Ouachita Parish, Louisiana

Father	Peter Nicholson Bruner (1873 - 1958)
Mother	Cora May Holland (1881 - 1926)
Sibling	Joseph Jamison Bruner (1898 - 1990)
Sibling	Mae Estella Bruner (1902 - 1984)
Sibling	Clarice Maurine Bruner (1905 - 1977)
Sibling	Sara Alwana Bruner (1909 - 1912)
Sibling	Lois V. Bruner (1920 - 2002)

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