Edna Bruner Bulkley
Edna Bruner Bulkley was an American missionary in Thailand from 1903 to 1934.
Early life
Bruner was born on July 14, 1873, in Sacramento, California, the daughter of Elwood Bruner and Lillian J. Flint Bruner. Her father was an attorney and a pastor.
Career
Bruner became a Presbyterian teaching missionary in Siam in 1903, working at the Wang Lang Girls' School in Bangkok, with principal Edna Sarah Cole and other American women. After she married, she helped to establish a hospital in Trang. On furloughs in the United States in 1909–1910 and 1930, she spoke to church and women's groups about her work.
Bruner married medical missionary Lucius Constant Bulkley in 1911, in Thailand. His father was noted physician Lucius Duncan Bulkley, and his sister was married to another notable physician, Henry Harrington Janeway. They had seven children born between 1912 and 1924. Her husband died in 1949, and she died on March 25, 1962, at the age of 78, in Claremont, California. In 2003, her daughter Mary Bulkley Stanton published Siam Was Our Home, a memoir of the Bulkley family's time in Thailand. The school where Bruner taught in Bangkok was the precursor to the present-day Wattana Wittaya Girls Academy.