Edna P. Bruner
Canadian and American minister
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Edna Pearl Bruner (May 14, 1906 – August 3, 1997[1]) was a Canadian and American minister and educational consultant in the Unitarian Universalist denomination.
May 14, 1906
Edna P. Bruner | |
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Bruner from the 1929 yearbook of St. Lawrence University | |
| Born | Edna Pearl Bruner May 14, 1906 Ruthven, Ontario, Canada |
| Died | August 3, 1997 (aged 91) Boston, Massachusetts, U.S. |
| Occupations | Minister, educational consultant |
Early life and education
Bruner was born and raised in Ruthven, Ontario, Canada,[1][2] the daughter of Albert Leonard Bruner and Nora May Peterson Bruner. While she was still in high school, Bruner became junior superintendent of the Young People's Christian Union, a Universalist youth organization.[3] She graduated from St. Lawrence University with a Bachelor of Arts degree in 1929,[4] and a Bachelor of Divinity degree in 1931.[5][6]
Career
Bruner was ordained as a Universalist minister in 1930. She served as a pastor in Waterloo, Iowa, from 1930 to 1940,[7][8] in Canton, New York, from 1945 to 1950,[5] and in Kennebunk, Maine, from 1968 to 1972.[1] She was also dean of the Midwest Universalist Summer Institute in Michigan for three years.[5]
From 1940[9] to 1968, Bruner was a field worker[10] and educational consultant on the national staffs of the Council of Liberal Churches[7][11] and the Unitarian Universalist Association, based in Boston.[12] She toured nationally in this work,[13][14][15] giving lectures and introducing local congregations and church women's groups to curriculum materials for religious education.[16][17]
Personal life
Bruner became a United States citizen by naturalization in 1941. She died in 1997, at the age of 91, in Boston.[1] There is a collection of her papers in the library of Harvard Divinity School.[18]