W.O.(Sonny) Brussow
William Otis (Sonny) Brussow was born in Woodbine in 1915, the youngest
child of Frank and Mary W. Brussow. He had four sisters. His family lived in
Woodbine in the house now occupied by Mr. and Mrs. Milton Gunter. After the
death of his father, he and his mother lived on the farm north of Woodbine.
Sonny married Phyllis McKinnie who died in 1942 when their daughter
Jeanette was born. He married Estelle Seubert and they were the parents of
one son, William Charles. Sonny lived and farmed all his adult life on the
farm on which his father and grandfather had lived and reared their families.
Sonny Brussow died in 1984. Both the Woodbine Methodist Church and Lyona
Methodist Church were constructed on stone quarried on the Brussow farm.
Source: Woodbine, Kansas Centennial, 1887 - 1987,
Woodbine through the years pg. 69
Submitted by Estelle Brussow