Submitted by: Dan Rich

Submitted by: Dan Rich

 

 

Godfrey Nicholas Bruggner

May 5, 1895 – May 14, 1953

 

South Bend Tribune 5/14/1953

G. N. Bruggner

G. N. Bruggner, 58, a former South Bend resident, died in his home in Augusta, Ga., early today of a heart attack.  He was found dead in his bed this morning.  A native of South Bend, he left the city in 1914, moving to Ft. Wayne, Ind., and lived in Augusta during the last year.  Surviving are the widow, the former Miss Mabel Seybold; Defiance O., at home; two sons and a daughter, James N., Paul and Mrs. E. F. Mettler, all of Ft. Wayne; two brothers, Frank J. and Louis V. Bruggner, both of South Bend; two sisters, Miss Hildegarde Bruggner, South Bend and Mrs. Zita Teschner, Denver, Colo., and nine grandchildren, all in Ft. Wayne.