EARL BRUSTER

Funeral service for Earl W. Bruster, 2022 Montgomery, will be held at 2 p.m. Friday at Maple United Methodist Church. The Rev. John Gregory will officiate. Burial will be in Fairmount Cemetery, with an honor guard provided by Cape Girardeau Police Department and graveside rites by Missouri National Guard 1140th Engineer Battalion.

Friends may call at Ford and Sons Mt. Auburn Chapel from 4-8 p.m. today.

Bruster, 63, died Tuesday, April 23, 1996, at his home.

He was born Aug. 14, 1932, in Cape Girardeau, son of Earl William and Mildred Berry Bruster. He and Betty Loucretia Davenport Rhodes were married Dec. 28, 1992, in Cape Girardeau.

Bruster was an officer with Cape Police Department from October 1972 to December 1994. He was a member of Maple Church here, and the Goldwing Road Riders Association of Jackson. He was a veteran of the Missouri Army National Guard.

Survivors include his wife; three sons, Alan Bruster of Haysville, Kan., Terry Bruster of New Philadelphia, Ohio, Trevis Bruster of Arkansas City, Kan.; three daughters, Debbie Loenneke of Jackson, Sandra Dorman and Theresa Metzinger of Arkansas City; three stepsons, Robert Rhodes of Gibbon, Minn., John Rhodes of St. Marys, Ga., Bentley Rhodes of Yokosuka, Japan; a stepsister, Judy Fluegge of Millersville, and eight grandchildren.