Bruce Good

Graveside Services were held 2:00 P.M., Wednesday, September 18, 1991 at the Aurora Cemetery.

OBITUARY: Bruce Good

Bruce A. Good, the son of Israel and Phoebe (Hinton) Good, was born on a farm near Owendale, Michigan, on September 10, 1908, and passed away at Bedford, Iowa, on September 14, 1991, at the age of 83 years and 4 days.

He attended a rural country school, and graduated from the Owendale High School, at Owendale, Michigan in 1926. He continued his education at Albion College, Albion, Michigan, graduating with a B.A. Degree in 1932. While in college he was a member of the Sigma Nu Fraternity and on the all conference varsity member of both the baseball and football teams. He had also done graduate work at the University of Michigan and the Harvard Business School. From 1932 to 1940 he was a teacher, coach, athletic director, and principal in the Senior Public High Schools in the state of Michigan.

In 1932, he was commissioned a second lieutenant in the Quartermaster Corps, U.S. Army Reserve. In 1940, he was ordered to extended active duty in World War II, to serve as a troop commander and staff officer in the Southwest Pacific Campaign, in Australia, New Guinea, the Philippines, and Japan. On June 4, 1946, he was promoted to the grade of full colonel in the Quartermaster Corps of the U.S. Army. His army education included graduation from the Command and Staff College, Ft. Leavenworth, Kansas, and the Army Industrial College in Washington, D.C. Military Decorations include the Bronze Star Medal and three battle stars.

In 1942, while stationed at Ft. Frances E. Warren Wyoming, he met Ellen (Nordland) Peterson, from Aurora, Nebraska, an U.S. Army Nurse, and they were married.

In 1946, he was transferred form the Active Army to the U.S. Army Active Reserve Corps to become the General Manager of the Hamilton County Farms Corporation, Aurora, Nebraska, and owned by the Mayo Property Association, Rochester, Minnesota, which included a seed corn processing and distributing organization and large scale framing organization in Hamilton and Merrick Counties in Nebraska.

In 1949, he was recalled to active duty to serve on Okinawa during the Korean War. He was placed on the U.S. Army Retired List on September 10, 1968.

He was a Scottish Rite Mason, Valley of Lincoln, Nebraska, and initiated in Sesastris Shrine Temple, class of 1948.

He was preceded in death by an infant son.

He is survived by his wife Ellen of Bedford, Iowa; 2 daughters, Karen Goodken of Minneapolis, Minnesota, and Kathy Ann Good of Springfield, Oregon.