Services were held Monday for William Brubaker, 86, who died Thursday in a Waterloo nursing home of cancer. The Rev. Myron Brockmeyer, pastor of the Traer United Methodist church, officiated and burial was in Grant township (Amity) cemetery. Born in Kurtz Valley, Pennsylvania, April 3, 1882, he was a son of Jacob and Amanda Brubaker. He was married August 19, 1909, at Kent City, Michigan to Nelly Nancy Merritt. They lived at Moline, Illinois, from 1909 to 1914, moving to north Tama county in the spring of 1915 to start farming southeast of Reinbeck. They operated various farms in Grant township until 1943 when they moved to Traer, buying the Henry Leethje acreage in south Traer. Mrs. Brubaker died October 5, 1955. Also preceding him in death was a son, Clarence A., who died in 1923 at the age of 12. Survivors are one son, Harold of Reinbeck; four daughters, Mrs. Forrest Edwards, Gladbrook; Mrs. Alvin Hendershot, Waterloo; Mrs. Joe Dedic, Traer; and Mrs. Ivan St John, Muskegon, Michigan; two brothers, Jay and Hudson Brubaker in Pennsylvania; 15 grandchildren and 18 great grandchildren.
Services were held Monday for William Brubaker, 86, who died Thursday in a Waterloo nursing home of cancer. The Rev. Myron Brockmeyer, pastor of the Traer United Methodist church, officiated and burial was in Grant township (Amity) cemetery. Born in Kurtz Valley, Pennsylvania, April 3, 1882, he was a son of Jacob and Amanda Brubaker. He was married August 19, 1909, at Kent City, Michigan to Nelly Nancy Merritt. They lived at Moline, Illinois, from 1909 to 1914, moving to north Tama county in the spring of 1915 to start farming southeast of Reinbeck. They operated various farms in Grant township until 1943 when they moved to Traer, buying the Henry Leethje acreage in south Traer. Mrs. Brubaker died October 5, 1955. Also preceding him in death was a son, Clarence A., who died in 1923 at the age of 12. Survivors are one son, Harold of Reinbeck; four daughters, Mrs. Forrest Edwards, Gladbrook; Mrs. Alvin Hendershot, Waterloo; Mrs. Joe Dedic, Traer; and Mrs. Ivan St John, Muskegon, Michigan; two brothers, Jay and Hudson Brubaker in Pennsylvania; 15 grandchildren and 18 great grandchildren.
Gravesite Details
ss w/Nellie; p/o Clarence A.
Family Members
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Samuel Saul Brubaker
1874–1947
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Mary Ella Brubaker Long
1875–1928
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John Elmer Brubaker
1877–1964
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Park Martin Brubaker
1879–1956
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Clark Milton Brubaker
1879–1959
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Elizabeth Mae Brubaker Gross
1888–1940
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Hudson Harrison Brubaker
1890–1973
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Ola B. Brubaker Shelley
1892–1958
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PFC Earl Alvin Brubaker Sr
1893–1959
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