Coletta was born December 9, 1916 in St. Killian, Minnesota, to Henry and Catherine Bruns. She is the oldest of ten siblings. One of her siblings, Irma lives with her husband John in California. The two maintain phone contact on a regular basis. Coletta’s siblings included three brothers Vincent, Willis, Norbert, and six sisters; Viola, Audrey, Marie, Alverna, Irma, and Vivian.
Coletta graduated from the 8th grade and helped her parents in raising her siblings. When she was 13 years old, I had to learn a lot of skills. I would bake 10 loaves of bread three times a week. She also couldn’t wait to learn how to milk cows. “Then after I learned how, I wished I never had.”
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