Robert L. Brunker is the first child of Gilbert and Adeline Brunker. He witnessed sixty-one years of Sweet Adeline’s life. As her life lessons took root in his life and he became a...ver maisRobert L. Brunker is the first child of Gilbert and Adeline Brunker. He witnessed sixty-one years of Sweet Adeline’s life. As her life lessons took root in his life and he became aware of her “Kitchen Poetry,” he started collecting her verses. For over thirty years he wrote what he called retrospections—reflections on how his mother’s life examples influenced him and how that was summarized in her various poems. This effort evolved into one of his bucket list items to be completed in his retirement years.
During most of the forty-two years he practiced dentistry, he helped raise two daughters, edited his state’s dental journal, went on thirteen medical missions to Jamaica, and engaged his grandchildren in illustrating his first Christian juvenile novel.
He serves on the Board of Elders of his church and continues to make mountains of sawdust from his woodworking projects at the aggravation of his wife of fifty-five years.ver menos