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BRUCE FREDERICK JUNKIN A light rain was falling on a cool morning in Mesa, Arizona. It is the kind of morning the locals like as it brings a fresh scent to the air and washes the desert clean as it encourages new growth for the coming Spring. It was on this morning of February 1, 2011, just after his 91st birthday, that Bruce Frederick Junkin passed into God's bosom. Bruce was born into a farming family on the LaSalle River, Sanford, Manitoba, the youngest of five siblings. He attended the University of Manitoba acquiring a B.Sc. in Electrical Engineering. Bruce served his country as a Sub Lieutenant in the Royal Canadian Navy on HMCS Loch Achinault sailing out of Londonderry, Ireland, during The Second World War. After returning to civilian life Bruce worked a year with Bell Telephone in Montreal. It was in Montreal that he met and married his wife Noreen. He then joined the I.W. Killam group of companies and embarked on a South American adventure looking after the Killam power interests in Bolivia. Bruce left Bolivia in 1959 as General Manager to return to head office in Montreal where he took on the presidency of a power group ministering to utility interests in Bolivia, El Salvador, Barbados and Venezuela. He stayed with the company through its various incarnations until his retirement in 1983. During this latter period he worked first from Montreal, then New York and finally Cincinnati. He was a past master of Anglo-Bolivian Lodge, AF AM, LaPaz, Bolivia and a member of Acacia Lodge, Bridgewater, N.S. He spent the last twenty eight years with Noreen splitting their time between Pleasantville, N.S. and Mesa, Arizona. Bruce is survived by his wife Noreen, children Brock and Stephanie and grandchildren Blane, Dane, Neville and Rebecca.

As published in Winnipeg Free Press on Feb 26, 2011