Bruce Saurino, passed from this life on Friday, July 16, 2010 at the age of 67.
Bruce was born on April 3, 1943 to Vincent Robert and Grace Velfy (Evers) Saurino in El Paso, Texas. Bruce lived his life in Los Angeles, California until moving to Tulsa to be near his family two years ago. He owned and operated his own nursery the Dark Star Nursery in Los Angeles for several years before his retirement. Bruce served in the U.S. Army during Viet Nam.
He leaves behind to mourn his passing his two sons, Jason Saurino of West Virginia, and Ben Smith of Kentucky, his elder brother Vincent Saurino, Jr. of South Carolina; and younger brothers James E. Saurino of Florida, Dan R. Saurino of North Carolina, John A. Saurino of Tulsa a sister, Bonnie Saurino Arnold of Tulsa, 3 grandchlldren, 18 nephews and nieces including John West of Vancouver, Sarah Labra of California, and Nigel, Hans, Joshua and Senna Saurino of Tulsa as well as an abundant number of great friends.
Bruce gave us the gift of investing himself in all of our lives and will be terribly missed. He is a lifetime loss.
Memorial services will be held on Thursday, July 22, 2010 at 6:00 p.m. in the Ninde Brookside Chapel with Pastor David Peterson officiating.
Sorry for your loss, my thoughts and prayers are with you.
Timothy Frink, DO
Bruce, You are incredibly precious to me. Words are inadequate to describe how much I will miss you. Thank you for investing so much of your time in me and my children throughout your entire life. You have the amazing ability to stop and focus on the person you are speaking to and truly enjoying the moment. Love, Bonnie
Bonnie Saurino Arnold
Bruce, I am sorry that we are not together anymore in the physical aspect of life but you will always be there in my heart and mind. I wish could be there for your service but you have my word that I will be there to send your remains to this earth. I want to thank you for being my father, I am who I am because of you and with out you I would not be. I wish that we could have spent more of our lives together but I will never hold that against anyone. I am very greatfull for the time that did get to spend together and I am so happy that you wanted and became apart of my childrens lives. It was alot of fun, the time that we spent together and I pray that we meet again to enjoy those memories toghther. I wish I had more time right now Bruce to continue to write to you, but I don't. I really hope that I have made you proud and you will be in my mind during these trials that I am going through right now and I promise you that I have a set day to let the hurt be released. I will miss you forever and Thank you Dad. Your Loving Son, Ben
Ben Smith