AMERICAN VETERAN
Oklahoman Archives
Oklahoma City, Oklahoma County, Oklahoma
March 2011Lizzie Harjo Bruner was born on August
8, 1915 in Holdenville, Oklahoma to Reverend Lilla and Eliza
(Long) Harjo. She went to be with the Lord, at the age of 95, on
Saturday, March 12, 2011 at Sapulpa, Oklahoma. She was the last
living sibling of eight children. She was of the Bird Clan and a
member of Hitchitee Tribal Town.
She attended Pecan Grove, Bacone, Sacred Heart and then
graduated from Sapulpa High School in 1935. In 1944 she and
George Bruner were married and made their home in Tulsa,
Oklahoma, until moving to Sapulpa, Oklahoma in 1957. She worked
at Bartlett Memorial Hospital in Sapulpa and then retired from
Hissom Memorial in Sand Springs in 1977. George and Lizzie
returned to the Holdenville area in 1969, residing on her
father’s original allotment.
While residing in Sapulpa, the family attended Pickett Chapel
United Methodist Church and Rock Creek Independent Methodist
Church. However, she remained a lifelong member of Salt Creek
United Methodist Church north of Holdenville. She loved the
Lord, gospel singings and visiting other churches of all
denominations. She also enjoyed singing and listening to Creek
hymns. She always remembered the sick, upholding them in prayer,
and visiting them in hospitals and homes.
Lizzie was an active member of the local American Legion Unit 32
of Holdenville. She was a Gold Star Mother and in June, 2010 the
Veterans of Foreign War Post 1327 in Glenpool presented her with
a plaque and United States Flag, paying tribute to her son SP4
David Bruner, who gave his life in Vietnam on May 14, 1969. In
2007, she was selected as one of the Muscogee Creek Nation’s
Living Legends. In May, 2010 she was also named Mother of The
Year by the Holdenville Tribune.
She was preceded in death by her parents, five brothers, and two
sisters; one son, David Bruner;
one daughter, Ann Inay, one son-in-law, Dave Inay, and one
grandchild, John David Inay.
She is survived by two sons, George Doug Scott and wife Willena
of Holdenville, Oklahoma, and Melvin Bruner, of the home; three
daughters: Phyllis Warrington and Kugee Supernaw of Skiatook,
Oklahoma, Deborah Clark of Wewoka, Oklahoma, and Georgetta ‘Jo’
and Reverend Paul Fixico of Sapulpa, Oklahoma; one
sister-in-law, Alice Stevens of Tulsa, Oklahoma; thirteen
grandchildren, thirty-seven great grandchildren, and nine great
great grandchildren. She also leaves special friends and family,
including two sons-in-laws, two daughters-in-law, two
step-granddaughters, two step great-granddaughter, and a host of
nieces, nephews, relatives and friends.
Pallbearers will include grandsons and escorts will include
granddaughters. Honorary pallbearers are Freeland ‘Butch’
Powell, Louis McGeeley Jr., Roger Butler, Tommy Harjo, Alfred
Goate, Bobby Larney, Gene Harjo, Rusty Powell, Jerry Wilson,
Alfred Wilson, and all women’s leaders.
Funeral services will be held at Salt Creek United Methodist
Church Wednesday, March 16, 2011 at 1:30 p.m. Officiating will
be
Rev. Alfred Elgin, Rev. Jimmy Anderson, and Rev. Dave Long, Jr.
Lizzie will be laid to rest at Harjo Family Cemetery.
Burial: Harjo Family Cemetery
Holdenville, Hughes County, Oklahoma ...
Complied and transcribed by Marti Graham, 2011.
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