MELLIE E. BRUNE

SEDGEWICKVILLE -- Funeral service for Mellie E. Brune of Sedgewickville was held Thursday at Trinity Lutheran Church in Friedheim, with the Rev. Wayne Palmer officiating. Burial was in the church cemetery.

Young and Sons Funeral Home in Perryville was in charge of arrangements.

Brune, 100, died Sunday, Sept. 24, 1995, at Perry Oaks Health Care in Perryville.

She was born Dec. 13, 1894, in Daisy, daughter of John H. and Julie Seabaugh Crites. She and Oscar H. Brune were married Sept. 6, 1918. He died March 4, 1973.

Brune had been an elementary teacher at Hildebrand, Critesville and Old Salem schools. She was a member of Trinity Lutheran Church and its Ladies Aid, and Daisy Homemakers Club.

Survivors include five sons, John and Cleo Brune of Perryville, Carl and Clyde Brune of Sedgewickville, Kelly Brune of Friedheim; six daughters, Mary Brune of Denver, Colo., Verna Hobeck of Daisy, Erna Seems of Peoria, Ariz., Mabel Kutschner of St. Louis, Dorothy Buck of Cleveland, Ohio, Loral Brune of Sedgewickville; 21 grandchildren; 37 great-grandchildren, and four great-great-grandchildren.

She was preceded in death by two sons, a daughter, three brothers and three sisters.