Mrs. Erma Lee Brunkhorst

Mrs. Erma Lee Brunkhorst Erma Lee Brunkhorst 82, former Bartlesville resident, died at 11:20 A.M. on Tuesday in Tulsa. Private Family Graveside Services will be held at a later date. Cremation arrangements and services are under the direction of the Stumpff Funeral Home & Crematory. Memorial contributions may be made in her memory to the American Cancer Society at 4110 S. 100th E. Ave., Suite # 101 Tulsa, OK. 74146. Mrs. Brunkhorst was born May 21, 1933 in Nowata County near Lenapah, Oklahoma to Cleo Adelbert and Virginia Nell (Winegar) Young. She was raised and received her education in Lenapah public schools, where she graduated High School. She was married to Rudolph Edwin Brunkhorst of March 8, 1952 at Coffeyville, Kansas. They made their home in Bartlesville for most of their married life where Mrs. Brunkhorst was a homemaker and mother for many years, until 1972 when she and her mother attended basic nursing training at Tri -County technical school, where they both received their LPN nursing degrees. Mrs. Brunkhorst later attended Tulsa Junior College, and received her Registered Nursing Degree as a RN in 1977. She worked in Bartlesville for Dr. Claire Liebrand for several years, and then later at Jane Phillips Medical Center as a RN, until her husband retired from Phillips Petroleum company in 1986. They later moved to the Houston area, where she worked as an RN at MD Anderson Cancer Institute in Houston. She had been an active member of the Redeemer Lutheran Church in Bartlesville for many years. Mrs. Brunkhorst is survived by her two daughters Becky Nichols of Tulsa, and Susan Delaloye and husband Kenneth of Tulsa by one granddaughter Nichole Delaloye and Kyle Wagner of Denver, Colorado, three step grandchildren Dennis Nichols of Yukon, OK, Jamie Landers of Altus, OK and Regina Smith of Tuttle, OK, six great grandchildren, three sisters Treva Little, Dorothy Swanson, and Helen Barclay, and three brothers Billy, Lonnie and John Gillman. She was preceded in death by her husband Rudy Brunkhorst in 2008, and a son-in-law Danny Nichols in 2004, by her parents Cleo and Virginia Young Gillman, and a sister Norma. Friends who wish may sign the online guest book and leave condolences at www.stumpoff.org.

Mrs. Erma Lee Brunkhorst

May 21, 1933 - January 26, 2016