Russell ‘Bruce’ Saunders
Russell ‘Bruce’ Saunders
Russell ‘Bruce’ Saunders of Boise, born on April 17, 1920 in Balko, Oklahoma to Chlaudie and Willie Saunders, went home to be with our Heavenly Father on June 15, 2011.
Bruce attended school in Blue Mound and Stillwater, Oklahoma and then entered the Marine Corps. Bruce served three years in the South Pacific sustaining a gunshot wound in Iwo Jima during WWII. Bruce met his wife Sybil while stationed at Camp Pendleton attending Marine training school. They married in Los Angles, California on April 29, 1944, celebrating their 65th wedding anniversary in 2009.
After the war, Bruce returned to Glencoe, Oklahoma, farming for several years while attending college at Oklahoma State University. In 1956, Bruce was fortunate to draw and homestead a farm in the Kasota/Burley area, farming until 1993 when he moved to Boise to be near his daughters and grandchildren, all of whom he held dear to his heart. Bruce was a long standing member of the VFW, Masons and El Korah Shriners.
Bruce came of age during the Great Depression and the Second World War. His generation was united by common purpose, values, duty, honor, courage and love of family and country and above all, responsibility for one’s self. Bruce lived true to these values every day of his life. Bruce was part of “The Greatest Generation.”
Bruce is survived by his three daughters, Beverly Grice (Pete), Joann Saunders, Susan Lusk (Jeff), granddaughters Jennifer Lusk (Brad) and Danielle Lusk, all of Boise.
Bruce’s family would like to thank the caring staff of the Meridian Care and Rehab Center and Hearts for Hospice for the care, support and devotion shown to their father.
If roses grow in heaven lord, then pick a bunch for me.
Place them in my dad’s arms and tell him they’re from me.
Tell him that I love and miss him, and when he turns to smile,
Place a kiss upon his cheek and hold him for awhile.
Bruce was a long standing member of the El Korah Shriners. In lieu of flowers the family requests donations to the Shriner’s Children Hospital in remembrance of their father.
Services will be held at Alden-Waggoner Chapel, at 5400 Fairview Avenue, Boise, Idaho at 10:00 a.m., Wednesday July 6th, 2011.
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