Terry Lynne Brulte

“I Needed the Quiet, So He drew me aside-into the shadows where we could confide; away from the hustle where all the day long I hurried and worried when active and Strong.” (Richard Cardinal Cushing)
Following a two year bed ridden life after suffering a stroke in February 2016, Terry Lynne Tuminello Brulte passed away at the home of her mother in Monroe. Terry was born November 25, 1950, in Clarksdale, MS. The daughter of Anthony (Tony) and Lola Tuminello, she was the first of the four children followed by three brothers. When she was four years old the family moved to Greenville, MS, where she grew up among family and friends. She attended St. Joseph Catholic School from Kindergarten through 12th grade. Following graduation, she attended Mississippi Delta Junior College in Morehead, MS, majoring in art. She was selected as a beauty queen. Following college, she chose to join the work force rather than pursue her art. Which she hated but did it anyway! In 1971, she married William Pollard Coleman and lived in Ferriday, LA, for ten years, but as life would have it, that marriage did not survive, and she moved to Monroe, where her family had relocated in 1974. Then eventually Simsboro, where her father had purchased a business, which she and her brother Trey operated. Later she became secretary to the first woman mayor in Simsboro. She married the late James (Jim) Brulte and has continued to live in Simsboro. It was unfortunate that she was never to become a parent, but she made it up by adopting every stray cat or dog that people left in her driveway. She had tremendous love for each animal that came her way and since she lived alone we teased her about becoming the “cat lady” of Simsboro. She had many friends in Simsboro and spent her life ‘working’ to improve an older home there and using her ‘art’ to make it her way. She lived near Trey and his family and enjoyed her two nieces and later a grandniece. She loved her brothers and their wives and children so much and was adored by her father and mother.
She was preceded in death by her father, Tony in 2015, and by her much-adored youngest brother, John Stephen, who passed away in 1973.
Surviving her is her mother, Lola Tuminello; her brothers, Trey Tuminello and wife Hazel and Kary of Monett, MO and his wife Marci; as well as several nieces and nephews.
Memorial service will be held in Simsboro on Wednesday, January 17, 2018, at 1:30PM at First Memorial Methodist Church located on Hwy 80 in Simsboro, LA.
If you choose, memorials can be made to the charity of your choice.
We give special love and thanksgiving to Premier Hospice, Candy Hibbard (much loved nurse), Robert Younger, Ella Lee, Brother Andy Myrick, and Dr. Hubbard and especially the lady who loved and cared for her, Annie Knight.
“I Needed the quiet, though at first I rebelled. But gently, so gently my cross He upheld, and whispered so sweetly of spiritual things, -though weakened in body my spirit took wings to height never dreamed of when active and gay. He loved me so gently, He drew me away. I needed the quiet, no prison my bed but a beautiful valley of blessing instead; a place to grow richer, in Jesus to hide, I needed the quiet, so he drew me aside. (Richard Cardinal Cushing, Archbishop of Boston).”