Funeral services for Bruce Allen Mittag, age 65, of Glenville, will be at 2 p.m. Sunday, May 14, at Bethlehem Lutheran Church. The Rev. Jeff Wallager will officiate. Interment will be in the Pilgrim’s Rest Cemetery. Visitation is from 4 to 7 p.m. Saturday at Bayview/Freeborn Funeral Home and one hour prior to the services at the church.

Bruce died on the family farm Monday, May 8, 2006, as a result of a farming accident.

Bruce Mittag was born Feb. 18, 1941, to Waldemar A. and Luella M. (Schilling) Mittag in Northwood, Iowa. He attended District 59 grade school, Northwood High School until transferring to Glenville consolidation of a new school, graduating in 1959 and attended a semi driver’s school in Baraboo, Wis. On June 29, 1960, Bruce was united in marriage to Donna Kay Ellingson at the First Lutheran Church in Northwood. The couple lived on the family farm for a number of years before moving to Benen, Minn. where he was employed at Lyle Manufacturing as a repair foreman on fertilizer equipment and then to their present home. Bruce also drove semi for Ruan Transport for 34 years. Bruce was a member of the Elks, Eagles, the Glenville American Legion, the Horseshoe Lake Association, and the Glenville Snowriders. He was also the director of the Glenville-Emmons Scholarship Foundation, a past member of the church council, and a 4-H leader. Bruce and Donna had managed the 4-H Clover Stand at the Freeborn County Fair for 18 years.

He enjoyed attending his grandchildren’s activities, hunting, fishing, snowmobiling, going to county and state fairs, traveling, farming, gardening, and &8220;tinkering&8221; around the farm.

Survivors include his wife, Donna; mother, Luella Mittag of Glenville; daughter, Dorenne and husband, Mike Hansen and their children: Heidi, Alex, and Logan of Glenville; daughter, Bonnie and husband, Curt Anding and their children, Bethany and Lindsey of West Concord; son, David and wife, April Mittag and their children Skylar and Mariah of New London, Mo.; daughter, Brenda and husband, Troy Wehking and their children, Emma and Olivia of Avoca; German exchange daughter, Anette and husband, Dane Hutchinson and daughter, Amy of Ratingen, Germany; Norwegian exchange son, PerKare and wife, Meretta Brenne of Skogen, Norway; brother, Douglas and wife, Mary Mittag of Bolingbrook, Ill.; mother-in-law, Lila Ellingson; sister-in-law, Connie and husband, Larry Thompson of Glenville; and brothers-in-law, LeRoy and wife, Kathy Ellingson of Clemson, S.C. and LaDon Ellingson of Glenville.

Bruce was preceded in death by his father, Waldemar Mittag and his father-in-law, Kenneth Ellingson.