AMERICAN VETERAN

Oklahoman Archives 
              Oklahoma City, Oklahoma County, Oklahoma
              May 20, 1969, pg 58

Indian-Killed p Near Da‘Nang

SAPULPA — Army 8-4 David Bruner, member of the Seminole Indian tribe.- was killed during an enemy attack near Da Nang last Wednesday. his relatives were notified Monday. - Bruner, 22, entered the army Aug.31. 1966. He was stationed at Fort Leonard Wood. Mo. and Fort Dix. N. J. before being sent to Vietnam in September. 1968; Bruner. who was with the 26th Infantry Division, would have returned home in August.

He was born Oct. 16. 1946, at Claremore. After graduating from Sequoyah Indian High School at Tahlequah in 1965, he attended Haskell Indian Institute at Lawrence. Kan. for a year.

Services for Bruner are pending with Smith Funeral Home at Sapulpa. Melvin Brunet. a brother, is in the army stationed in Germany. He will arrive at Sapulpa Tuesday to attend the funeral.

Other survivors include: his father, George Bruner, of the home: a brother Douglas. Chicago; (our sisters. Phyllis, Ann. Deborah and Georgetta, all of the home and his grandmother, Mrs. (article ends)

Burial: Harjo Family Cemetery
Holdenville, Hughes County, Oklahoma

[07-21-2017  FindAGrave has a nice photo]

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Complied and transcribed by Marti Graham, 2011.