Edna Pickering Bruce, 91

Edna Pickering Bruce, 91, passed away of natural causes Tuesday, Jan. 31, 2006, at Heritage Place in Kalispell.

She was born July 14, 1914, in Cheyenne, Wyo., the daughter of Martha Agnes Terry Pickering and Edward Glenn Pickering. Edna attended grade school in Clinton.

She graduated from Florence Carlton High School.

When she was 21, she married Ray Bruce and adopted his four daughters.

Another daughter was born to this family.

Edna was preceded in death by her parents; her husband; her brothers, Terry and Richard; and her sister, Margaret Whitney. Also preceding her in death were her daughter, Adele Bruce Zink; and a son-in-law, Loren Gerdes.

She was loved and is mourned by her daughters and their spouses, Bonnie and Bill Burgess, Betty Bruce, James Zink, Shirley Gerdes, and Martha and Eugene Johnson, as well as 20 grandchildren, 17 great-grandchildren and seven great-great-grandchildren.

Funeral services were held Friday, Feb. 3, at Montana Cremation and Memorial Society. Interment was in Sunset Memorial Cemetery in Missoula.