Funeral for the Rev. Stephen Paul Bruening of Alexandria, Minn., was held April 30 at Zion Lutheran Church in Alexandria. Burial was in Geneva Cemetery in Alexandria.

Anderson Funeral Home in Alexandria was in charge of arrangements.

Bruening, 52, died Monday, April 26, 1999.

He was born Nov. 12, 1946, in Cape Girardeau, son of Paul and Tekla Sieving Bruening. He and Vivian Schuette were married Dec. 29, 1968.

Bruening attended elementary school in Jackson, was a 1964 graduate of St. Paul Lutheran High School in Concordia, 1968 graduate of Concordia Senior College in Fort Wayne, Ind., and 1972 graduate of Concordia Seminary in St. Louis. His vicarage was completed at Zion Lutheran Church in Alexandria.

Following his ordination in 1972 he accepted a call to First English Lutheran Church in Dorsett, Minn. He became pastor at Zion Church in Alexandria in 1977.