Edward Donald Brueggemann

1932 - 2017

Edward Donald Brueggemann, son of August and Hilda Brueggemann, born Jan. 7, 1932, in Tilton, Neb., died peacefully Friday, May 26, 2017, at Havenwood Health Services, surrounded by family. After graduating Elmhurst College in Elmhurst, Ill. in 1954, he married LuAnn Gleiber (d. 2015) in 1957. Upon completion of seminary at Eden Theological Seminary in Webster Groves, Mo., he was ordained with his brother, Walter Brueggemann. After serving churches in Missouri and Illinois, he became Minister of program for the Illinois South Conference, U.C.C. and then Conference Minister for the New Hampshire Conference, U.C.C. 

Edward followed politics closely and frequently wrote letters to the editor published in the Concord Monitor. He will be missed by his children, Don Brueggemann and his wife, Marjorie Waters, Barb Brueggemann and her fiancé, Marjorie Cohen and Deb Guarino and her husband, Michael Guarino; and grandchildren, Caitlin Guarino Coleman and her husband Kyle Coleman, Quinn Sanborn Brueggemann and her fiancé, Tim Rose and Tyler Guarino and Erin Waters.

A memorial service will be held Sunday, June 4, at 4 p.m. at the First Congregational Church of Concord, U.C.C.

The burial and a memorial service will be held at St. Paul's U.C.C. in Waterloo, Ill. at a time to be determined.

In lieu of flowers, memorial gifts can be made to First Congregational Church of Concord.