Bruce Charles Purcell

Bruce was born July 11, 1951 in Philadelphia, PA, to Violet Isaacson and Thomas Purcell. He was raised in Jacksonville, FL, where his love for music and performance started to bloom. After high school he enlisted in the U.S. Navy. He called many places home including the mountains of Colorado where he met the love of his life, Jodi. He spent his life working in the arts as a musician, an actor, a camera man, a producer, and set dresser. He was a true renaissance man.

Bruce passed away peacefully at home, meditating in his favorite chair, on the morning of December 28,2025. He is survived by his best friend and wife Jodi, his daughter Megan, his son-in-law Nathan, his brother-in-law Mark, his mother and father-in-law Kris & Dave, his daughter Katie, and his son's Juan and Phil. He is also survived by his amazing grandsons Rylan, Clayton and Landon.

Bruce will be remembered for his sense of humor, his quick wit and his unwavering sense of adventure. He was always up for a last minute road trip to find Bigfoot tracks or abandoned buildings with his family. One of his favorite things to do while he was out and about was to help people by taking their family pictures. If you ever happen to have a kind stranger offer to take your family picture, smile a little bit bigger and think of Bruce.

Bruce walked a spiritual path of love and adventure and will be missed tremendously by those who loved him. But he will also be missed by those who didn't know his name, those who he smiled and waved to during his frequent trips to Costco and Hy-Vee, those he chatted with daily at the dog park, and those strangers who didn't know they needed a shoulder to cry on until they came across a kind and gentle stranger who was there just to listen.