Obituaries

Alan M. Bruns Indexer

Alan M. Bruns, 82, an indexer for the Congressional Record from 1981 until he retired in 1994, died Oct. 21 at his home in Fredericksburg of congestive heart failure.

Mr. Bruns was a news editor at the Washington Evening Star from 1971 to 1981.

A native of Brooklyn, N.Y., Alan Martin Bruns was a telegrapher for the Chesapeake & Ohio Railway in Richmond during World War II. In the late 1940s and 1950s, he was a reporter for the Daily Progress in Charlottesville. After a brief stint as a reporter for the Richmond Times-Dispatch in the late 1950s, he returned to the Daily Progress as a state editor until he moved to the Washington region in 1971.

In 1995, he moved to Fredericksburg from Alexandria.

His marriage to Jean Randolph Bruns ended in divorce.

Survivors include his wife of 36 years, Nancy Barlow Bruns of Fredericksburg; two children from his first marriage, Bryan Bruns of Bloomington, Ind., and Mary A. Bruns of Seagrove Beach, Fla.; a stepdaughter he adopted, Cameron T. Vardeman of Centreville; a sister; two brothers; and nine grandchildren.

-- Lauren Wiseman

James A. Cudney Development Specialist

James A. Cudney, 85, who worked in international development in Afghanistan and the Far East, died Oct. 5 at his home in Potomac of complications from Parkinson's disease.

In the early 1960s, Mr. Cudney worked for the U.S. Agency for International Development in Afghanistan as program officer for development projects. He worked for AID in Iran in 1964-66, in Vietnam during the war and in Washington.

By 1975, he was international programs director for the Far East for the National Rural Electric Cooperative Association, a job that helped bring electricity to rural areas of developing countries. He retired in 1988.