Artie O. Brunson
Artie O. Brunson, age 102, died Monday, September 2, 2013 at the Garden Valley
Retirement Village in Garden City, Kansas. She was born on May 8, 1911 in Loco,
Oklahoma, the daughter of William Henry & Lillie May Blevins Clarkston. A resident
of Garden City since 1930 she had been in partnership with her husband of Brunson
Distributing Company.
She was a member of the First Baptist Church of Garden City, Kansas.
On November 27, 1928 she married Mearl Brunson in Frederick, Oklahoma. He died March
9, 1997 in Garden City, Kansas.
Survivors Include:
One Son, Roger Brunson of Garden City, Kansas;
One Daughter, Alene Calder Herrman of Liberal, Kansas;
Seventeen Grandchildren and Thirty-seven Great-Grandchildren.
She was preceded in death by her husband, a son, Doyle Brunson, a daughter, Mearlene
Ankrom, a great-granddaughter, Jaimie Carr, a sister, Esley Clarkston, and six brothers,
Clarence, Carl, L.K. (Pete), Bill, Chester & Wendell Clarkston.
Graveside Services will be held at 10:30am, Friday, September 6, 2013 at the Valley View
Cemetery in Garden City, Kansas.
Friends may call from 10:00am-8:00pm on Thursday at the Price & Sons Funeral Home in
Garden City, Kansas.
Memorials may be given to the Artie Brunson Memorial Fund in care of Price & Sons
Funeral Home of Garden City, Kansas.