Edna Bruner Bulkley

Bruner was born on July 14, 1873, in Sacramento, California, the daughter of Elwood Bruner and Lillian J. Flint Bruner. Her father was an attorney and a pastor.^[1][2]

Bruner became a Presbyterian teaching missionary in Siam in 1903,^[3] working at the Wang Lang Girls' School (Kullastri Wanglang) in Bangkok, with principal Edna Sarah Cole and other American women.^[4][5] After she married, she helped to establish a hospital in Trang.^[2][6] On furloughs in the United States in 1909–1910^[7] and 1930,^[8] she spoke to church and women's groups about her work.^[9][10]

Bruner married medical missionary Lucius Constant Bulkley in 1911, in Thailand.^[11][12] His father was noted physician Lucius Duncan Bulkley,^[13] and his sister was married to another notable physician, Henry Harrington Janeway. They had seven children born between 1912 and 1924. Her husband died in 1949,^[14] and she died on March 25, 1962, at the age of 78, in Claremont, California.^[6] In 2003, her daughter Mary Bulkley Stanton published Siam Was Our Home, a memoir of the Bulkley family's time in Thailand.^[15][16] The school where Bruner taught in Bangkok was the precursor to the present-day Wattana Wittaya Girls Academy.^[17]