PIONEER DIES AT 81 YEARS OF AGE

Funeral Rites For Lonnie Bruner Held On December 28th

Lonnie Bruner, a native of this county, died on Wednesday night of last week following a stroke. At his death he was past 81 years of age.

He was born at DeSoto on October 12, 1864, and grew to manhood there. Lonnie was in his earlier years a person who enjoyed being alone. Back in the eighties and nineties when the brick business flourished here Lonnie was engaged in cutting cord wood to be used by them and in this line he was a specialist.

In the fall of the year a grove of timber, usually along the river, would be bought and Lonnie would build himself a shack and during the winter but little would be seen of him. He would work industriously at his wood cutting and he made good money at it.

Lonnie had many friends and all of the old timers of the DeSoto neighborhood always had a good word to speak of him. For the past several years he made his home in Blair at the home of Mrs. Clara Houghton.

Funeral services were held last Friday afternoon at two o’clock at the Bendorf funeral Home, and interment was made in the Blair cemetery.

He leaves one brother, Edward Bruner of Omaha.

Thus another pioneer has gone and the numbers are indeed getting smaller and smaller.

~~~Obituaries courtesy of the Nebraska Washington County Genealogical Society. Newspaper clippings on file in the Blair, Nebraska Public Library~~~

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