Vivian I Bruns

Vivian I. Bruns, age 92, Clark, the widow of Bill Bruns, died in the Clark Care and Rehabilitation Center early Sunday morning, August 5, 2018.

Visitation will be held on Thursday, August 9, 2018 from 5-7 PM at the Furness Funeral Home at Clark and 1 hour preceding the services at the Church in Clark on Friday.

Funeral services will be held on Friday, August 10, 2018 at 10:30 AM in the Plymouth Congregational United Church of Christ in Clark with Pastor Fawn Lamb officiating.  Music will be provided by Kathy Weber as pianist and Amber Brockberg with a piano solo. The honorary casketbearers will be her granddaughters, Shelly Margulies, Deb Brockberg, Tammy Stolle, Dawn Finstad, Shawn Moe and Jody Williamson. The active casketbearers are grandsons and great-grandson, Donnie, Shane, and Gunnar Hagstrom, Jamie Williamson, Taylor Finstad, Javen and Adam Moe, Matt and Michael Erickson, and Danny Bruns. Burial will follow in the Rose Hill Cemetery at Clark.

She was born Vivian Nelsen on October 14, 1925 near Carpenter, SD, the daughter of Fred and Blanche (Fountain) Nelsen. Vivian attended country school near Carpenter. The family moved to Iroquois in 1940 and she graduated from Iroquois High School in 1944.

On February 6, 1945 she was united in marriage to William "Bill" Bruns in Ortonville, MN. He was inducted into the United States Army a few days later. While Bill was in the Army, Vivian lived in Huron working for Mary's Café and then missing her friends back in Clark County, moved to Clark in 1947. The couple has lived and worked in Clark since that time. Bill died in 1997.

While living in Clark Vivian worked for area potato farmers, the M & M Café for 7 years, the Clark Bakery for two years and then cooked at the Clark Lanes for 34 years. For the past few years, Vivian enjoyed living at the Fay Wookey Assisted Living Center in Clark and in February of 2018 she became a resident of the Clark Care and Rehabilitation Center.

She enjoyed traveling, dancing and playing cards – any and all kind, except bridge. She would drop most anything to play cards!

Preceding her in death were her parents, husband, a granddaughter, Cheryl, a son-in-law, Donald Murphy, brothers, Wendell, Robert, and Lloyd Nelsen, and sisters Betty Wildfang and Carol Maxine Nelsen.

Survivors include her children, Karen (David) Hink, and Sandra Murphy all of Clark, Lynette (Melvin) Williamson of Doland, and William (Sandy) Bruns of Renner. She leaves 10 grandchildren, 21 great-grandchildren, 1 great-great granddaughter, 7 step grandchildren, and 2 step-great grandchildren. Vivian leaves sisters, Wanda Hart of Washington, and Helen Larson of Huron.

Funeral arrangements are announced by the Furness Funeral Home at Clark where there is an on-line registry at www.furnessfuneralhome.com