Elfriede Brunner

April 14, 1940 - November 26, 2017

Elfriede Brunner, age 78 of Toledo, Ohio, lost her two year battle with stomach cancer on Saturday November 26, 2017. She was born to Anita and Franz Schilling on April 14, 1940 in Schweinfurt, Germany. In 1964 she immigrated with her husband and two children to the United States to pursue higher education. Elfriede received her Bachelor’s Degree from Ball State University in Muncie Indiana and her Master’s Degree from College Park at the University of Maryland. She taught at Bridgewater-Raritan High School, V.J., Watching Hills Regional High School, both in NJ, and for 27 years at St. John’s Jesuit High School in Toledo, Ohio, where she was the Department Chair of Foreign Language. Elfriede loved to travel and has seen almost every state in the U.S. She also led many Student trips to Europe and went on mission trips to Guatemala and El Salvador. Christmas was her favorite time of the year to stay in touch with family and friends throughout the world. She loved the smell of a live Christmas tree and almost every ornament had a story behind it; Christmas cookies were always shared with neighbors and friends. She will be greatly miss by her loving husband of 56 years, Guenter Brunner; daughter Evelyn, son Peter Brunner; grandchildren Shannon, Angela and Sarah; brother-in-law and sister-in-law and nieces and nephews. Memorial services will be held in the chapel at St John’s Jesuit High School on Wednesday December 6, 2017 at 3:30 p.m. Interment will be private.