Obituary for William Aloysius Brungs
Little River - William A. Brungs (Bill), age 89 passed away at home peacefully on Sunday, February 27, 2022.
He was the son of William A. Brungs (deceased) and Lorena Hunt Brungs (deceased) of Columbus Ohio. He is survived by his wife of 59 years, Peggy (Rolfes) Brungs and two children, Karen Brungs and Mark Brungs.
Bill was born in Covington Kentucky and grew up in Columbus Ohio attending St. Charles Prep. High School and Ohio State University. He was drafted into the army in 1953 during the Korean Conflict and served in a MASH unit in Japan, as an X-ray Technician, until 1955 when the war was over. He returned home to Columbus and went back to Ohio State, graduating with a Phd in Wildlife Management in 1963.
He was hired by the Public Health Service in Cincinnati Ohio as part of a research team to study the precise effects of pollutants on fish with his mentor and friend, Don Mount of Duluth. He also designed a wildstream study to validate the laboratory results.
From Cincinnati, he moved to the EPA Freshwater Lab. in Duluth, Minn., where he became instrumental in developing Water Quality Criteria for the EPA. He and his family spent 9 happy years in Duluth on their farm with two other EPA families, riding horses and playing in the snow and resurrecting an abandoned farm house.From Duluth, Bill and his family moved to Rhode Island where he was appointed Deputy Director at the Narragansett EPA Lab. He became Director there for a short time and retired. In 2010 Bill and Peg moved to Brevard, North Carolina to build their dream home where they live today. Through the years they traveled to many places in the world including Egypt, Kenya, Peru and France studying ancient cultures and spiritual traditions.
At the end of the Gulf War, in 1992, Bill and Peg went to Kuwait where he helped design research at the Kuwaiti Environmental Lab. It was an exciting and interesting experience for them both. They lived and worked there for 7 months.
Bill is survived by his wife Peggy, Karen Brungs and her husband, John Seale, of Rhode Island, and Mark Brungs, his wife, Doli Arrumm, and granddaughter Marika of New York. Bill is also survived by a sister, Sandy Tylka of Toledo, Illinois and 7 nieces and nephews.
His Celebration of Life memorial service will be held at the Moody Connolly Funeral Home of Brevard, North Carolina at 2pm on March 20, 2022. There will be a reception following the service at the home of Bill and Peg in Little River.
In lieu of flowers, please donate in his memory to Four- Seasons Hospice of Flat Rock, NC, (https://fourseasons.teleioscn.org).
He was the son of William A. Brungs (deceased) and Lorena Hunt Brungs (deceased) of Columbus Ohio. He is survived by his wife of 59 years, Peggy (Rolfes) Brungs and two children, Karen Brungs and Mark Brungs.
Bill was born in Covington Kentucky and grew up in Columbus Ohio attending St. Charles Prep. High School and Ohio State University. He was drafted into the army in 1953 during the Korean Conflict and served in a MASH unit in Japan, as an X-ray Technician, until 1955 when the war was over. He returned home to Columbus and went back to Ohio State, graduating with a Phd in Wildlife Management in 1963.
He was hired by the Public Health Service in Cincinnati Ohio as part of a research team to study the precise effects of pollutants on fish with his mentor and friend, Don Mount of Duluth. He also designed a wildstream study to validate the laboratory results.
From Cincinnati, he moved to the EPA Freshwater Lab. in Duluth, Minn., where he became instrumental in developing Water Quality Criteria for the EPA. He and his family spent 9 happy years in Duluth on their farm with two other EPA families, riding horses and playing in the snow and resurrecting an abandoned farm house.From Duluth, Bill and his family moved to Rhode Island where he was appointed Deputy Director at the Narragansett EPA Lab. He became Director there for a short time and retired. In 2010 Bill and Peg moved to Brevard, North Carolina to build their dream home where they live today. Through the years they traveled to many places in the world including Egypt, Kenya, Peru and France studying ancient cultures and spiritual traditions.
At the end of the Gulf War, in 1992, Bill and Peg went to Kuwait where he helped design research at the Kuwaiti Environmental Lab. It was an exciting and interesting experience for them both. They lived and worked there for 7 months.
Bill is survived by his wife Peggy, Karen Brungs and her husband, John Seale, of Rhode Island, and Mark Brungs, his wife, Doli Arrumm, and granddaughter Marika of New York. Bill is also survived by a sister, Sandy Tylka of Toledo, Illinois and 7 nieces and nephews.
His Celebration of Life memorial service will be held at the Moody Connolly Funeral Home of Brevard, North Carolina at 2pm on March 20, 2022. There will be a reception following the service at the home of Bill and Peg in Little River.
In lieu of flowers, please donate in his memory to Four- Seasons Hospice of Flat Rock, NC, (https://fourseasons.teleioscn.org).