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http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/10/26/AR2009102603077.html

Alan M. Bruns Indexer

Alan M. Bruns, 82, an indexer for the Congressional Record from 1981 until
he retired in 1994, died Oct. 21 [2009] at his home in Fredericksburg of
congestive heart failure.

Mr. Bruns was a news editor at the Washington Evening Star from 1971 to
1981.

A native of Brooklyn, N.Y., Alan Martin Bruns was a telegrapher for the
Chesapeake & Ohio Railway in Richmond during World War II. In the late 1940s
and 1950s, he was a reporter for the Daily Progress in Charlottesville.
After a brief stint as a reporter for the Richmond Times-Dispatch in the
late 1950s, he returned to the Daily Progress as a state editor until he
moved to the Washington region in 1971.

In 1995, he moved to Fredericksburg from Alexandria.

His marriage to Jean Randolph Bruns ended in divorce.

Survivors include his wife of 36 years, Nancy Barlow Bruns of
Fredericksburg; two children from his first marriage, Bryan Bruns of
Bloomington, Ind., and Mary A. Bruns of Seagrove Beach, Fla.; a stepdaughter
he adopted, Cameron T. Vardeman of Centreville; a sister; two brothers; and
nine grandchildren.

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Lauren Wiseman


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