The wake will begin Saturday, June 27, at the Red Lake Community Center and continue until the time of the funeral at 1 p.m. Monday at St. Mary’s Mission Catholic Church with Rev. Patrick Sullivan officiating. A meal will be served following the funeral at the Red Lake Community Center. Burial will be at Holy Cross Cemetery in Bemidji.

Pallbearers will be her grandsons, Travis, Daniel, Virgil, Vincent, Zachary and Francis III.

Honorary pallbearers will be Roxanne Johnson, Myrna Hardy, Nancy J. Richards, Cindy Gagnon, Bernice Donnell, Vivian Lawrence and special sons Allen Brown and Patrick Mills.

She was born June 11, 1940, to Joseph and Nancy (Dudley) Lussier in Red Lake. She graduated in 1958 from Red Lake High School as salutatorian. She attended the Northland Community College in fall 1958 and graduated one year later from the secretarial course. She went to Los Angeles, Calif., in 1959 and was employed at an insurance company for one year. She came back to Red Lake in 1960 and married Francis “Chunky” Brun Oct. 22, 1960. She was employed with the Red Lake Tribal Credit Program operated by the Bureau Of Indian Affairs where she started as a credit clerk and worked herself up to be the credit officer, administrative officer and supervisory contracts and grants specialist from 1960-1994. She retired for approximately two years and went back to work for the Tribal Council as grants and contracts specialist from 1996 to 2007. She enjoyed reading, spending time with her children, grandchildren, family and friends. She enjoyed going to the casino and was active in community affairs and activities. She was a great cook and prepared many family feasts, and had many memorable experiences with extended family, relatives and friends.

She is survived by her husband; children, Victoria Brun, Francis (Simone) Brun, Kathleen (Bobby) Brun and Jeffrey (Kristie) Brun; six grandsons; five granddaughters; two great-grandsons; sisters, Anna Schoenborne, Virginia Perkins, Joan Donnell and Ramona Barrett.

She was preceded in death by her mother and father; sister, Gertrude Beaulieu; brothers, Kenneth, Harlan, Paul and Donald; two brothers-in-law; Son, Derrick; and a grand-daughter.