Full Name: Lourine M. Bruening Age: 84 Years Sex: Female
Current address: Topeka, Kansas
Date of death: Early Thursday morning, August 1, 2002
Place of death: A Topeka area hospital
Date of birth: April 13, 1918 Place of birth: Brazilton, KS
Parents: C. H. and Katherine Wintjen Imbusch
Years in current city/town: came to Topeka in 1978 from Larned, Kansas.
Background: Graduated from High School in Mound City, Kansas. She attended Ft. Scott Junior College.
She worked in her father's grocery store in Paola, Kansas. She and her husband served in churches in Crowley, LA, Augusta, KS, Salt Lake City, Utah, Larned, Kansas, and Topeka, KS. As a pastor's wife, she was responsible for teaching Sunday school, Bible School, playing the organ and piano for services, as well as being a full time homemaker and mother.
Married: Reverend George J. Bruening on September 6, 1942 in Paola, Kansas
preceded in death by: one daughter at birth
Survivors: Husband: George J. Bruening, of the home
Daughter: Delores Bruening McKinney, Wentzville, MO
and her husband, Richard A. McKinney
Service time, day, date, place: Services will be at Faith Lutheran Church, 17th & Gage Blvd, Topeka, Kansas, August 5, 2002 at 10:30 a.m.
Burial: Mt. Hope Cemetery Topeka, Kansas
Visitation times, place: Lourine M. Bruening will lie in state at Penwell-Gabel Mid Town Chapel after 8:00 a.m. Sunday, August 4, 2002 where the family will receive friends from 7-8 p.m.
Memorial contributions, if any: Lutheran Social Service, 1855 N. Hillside, Wichita, KS 67214; or Topeka Lutheran School, 701 SW Roosevelt, Topeka, Kansas 66606; or Faith Lutheran Church, 1617 SW Gage Blvd, Topeka, Kansas 66604
Funeral home in charge: Penwell-Gabel Mid Town Chapel, 1321 SW 10th Ave., Topeka, Kansas 66604