Family/Spouse: GRABAU, Clara. Clara (daughter of GRABAU, Johannes J and HARNISCH, Johanna Sophia) was born in May 1871 in Town of Wheatfield, Niagara County, NY; and died. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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28 March 1955 Tonawanda News
BRUSS – Olga Leupold Bruss, 59, died suddenly Saturday morning (March 26, 1955) in the parsonage of St. James Evangelical Lutheran Church. Born in Buffalo, Mrs. Bruss had resided there the greater part of her life before marrying the Rev. Otto Bruss Nov. 1, 1950. She was a member of St. James Church, the Ladies Aid Society, and the Women’s Missionary Society of the church. She was also a member of the PTA of School District 5, Town of Wheatfield. Besides her husband, the Rev. Otto Bruss, she is survived by two stepsons, Roland W. Bruss and Gerald H. Bruss, both of Bergholz; three stepdaughters, Mrs. Raymond Mielke, Mrs. Charles Greinert and Mrs. Donald Becker, all of Niagara Falls, Niagara County, NY; 10 step-grandchildren and four step-great-grandchildren. Friends may call at the parsonage on Rohr. St., Bergholz, where services will be held Tuesday afternoon at 1:45 and at 2 o’clock in St. James Lutheran Church. The Rev. Merton L. Baseler, pastor of St. Peter’s Lutheran Church, North Tonawanda, the Rev. Martin J. Alpers, pastor of Trinity Old Lutheran Church, Buffalo, will officiate. Burial will be in St. James Cemetery, Bergholz

Olga married BRUSS, Otto Carl August on 1 Nov 1950 in Bergholtz, Town of Wheatfield, Niagara County, NY. Otto (son of BRUSS, Franz and WEGNER, Caroline Wilhelmine Auguste) was born on 11 Nov 1877 in Klein Justin, Cammin, Pomerania, Germany; died on 5 Feb 1963 in Niagara Falls, Niagara County, NY. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]