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Mrs. Eva Glenn Bruce, widow of lidwin I-awson Bruce, founder of E. I-. Bruce Co., died May 26 at Methodist Hospital in Memphis where she had been a patient since Septembcr 1948 when she fell and broke hcr hip. Ilurial services wcre held at Forest Lawn Cemetery, Glendale, Calif., where her husband is buried.

The daughter of George W. Glenn and Sarah Dleanor Van Vost Glenn, she rvas born in Clark County, Iowa, in 1856. She moved with her family to Kansas in 1865. And it rvas in 1883, in Olathe, Kan., she was married to Mr. Bruce. A year later her husband went into business for himself, opening a retail lumber yard in Kansas City.

Their sons brought the business from Kansas City to Litle ltock, Ark., in l9l3 and to Memphis in 1921.

X{eanwl-rile she and Mr. Bruce moved to Los Angeles in 1919. The elder Mr. Bruce continued to serve as chairman of the board of E. L. Bruce Co., even though he lived in the West until his death.

She rvas a member of the Unitarian Church and in her )rounger days was very active in club work.

After her hus.band's death in 1944, she came to Memphis to be n'ith her farnily and had made her home ever since rvith Ii. L. Bruce, Jr., president of the lumber firm. Another son, C. Arthur Bruce, is executive vice president of the company. Her other trvo sons, Robert Glenn Bruce and Frank E. Bruce, both of Memphis, died several years ago.

Mrs. Bruce leaves nine grandchildren, 24 great grandchildren and a brother, Albert C. Glenn. Wichita. Kan.

Adrian Levy

Adrian Levy, 46, manager of the Coast Plywood facturing Company, San Francisco, was killed June the plane he was piloting crashed in a heavy fog Berkeley Hills, just over the Contra Costa County

I{e was alone in the plane, and was on his way to the com1>any's plant at Calpella, Calif., from the Oakland Airport, on his first trip in the newly purchased Beechcraft Bonanza. He is survive<l by his widow, Mrs. Rosalie I-evy.

Joseph P. Hofbnan

Joseph P. Floffman, 59, director of purchases for the \A/eber Showcase & Fixture Co., Los Angeles, passed away at his home in Whittier on May 24. He had been associated with the company for thirty-one years.

He leaves his rvidow, Valeda; two sons, Phillip and James, and two daughters, Harriet and Jeanette, all of Whittier. Funeral services were held at Whittier on May 26.

Rclph J. Hines

Ralph J. Hines,49, a director of the Iidrvard Hines Lumber Co. of Chicago, passed away on May 27 at the Harkness Pavilion of the Presbyterian Hospital in Nerv York City.

Bricrnt S. Young

Funeral services for Briant S. Young, 78, retired American Portland Cement Co. executive, were held in the Church of the Recessional, Forest Lawn Memorial Park, Glendale, on June 2.

Mr. Young passed away on May 31, and he is survived by trvo sons, Marvin and Gordon, and a daughter, Mrs. Maeli Miller.

Iohn W. HuII

Ftrneral services for John Walter Huff , 78, retired furniture and cabinet maker, were held in Los Angeles on May 27. He rvas born in New York. and had lived in Los An1 when geles for thirty years. He passed away at his home in Los in the Angeles on May 24. He is survived by his rvidow, Mrs. line. Bertha B. Huff.

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