Benard “Ben” Brunick, 84, of Arlington died Wednesday, Nov. 1, 2017 at the Arlington Care and Rehabilitation Center in Arlington.
Funeral services for Benard Brunick will be at 10:30 a.m. Monday, at Trinity Lutheran Church in Arlington. Burial is in the Arlington City Cemetery. Visitation is from 5-7 p.m. Sunday at the Johnson-Henry Funeral Home in Arlington and preceding services in the church on Monday.
Benard Floyd Brunick was born Oct. 10, 1933, at Arlington to Tideman R. and Ane Christine (Jensen) Brunick. He was baptized at the Highland Lutheran Church at Brandt and confirmed at Trinity Lutheran Church in Arlington.
Ben attended rural school at District 44, Spring Lake No. 1 also known as the Four-Corners school and graduated from Arlington High School in 1952. Ben served in the U.S. Army from 1955 to 1957 taking basic training at Ft Chaffee, Arkansas and was stationed at Ft Hood, Texas. Ben was a farmer most all of his life starting as a young boy in 4-H with a Black Angus heifer, after selling his prize heifer he invested in a B John Deere. This was his beginning to farming, renting land and then the purchasing of his family farm from his father in 1972.
Ben is survived by two sisters, Helen Syverson of Arlington and Arlene (Don) Gruseth of Volga a number of nephews, nieces and cousins.
He was preceded in death by his brother, Leonard and two sisters, Edna Lee and Virginia Gunderson.
