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Obituary for The Reverend Bruns M. Myers, III.
The Reverend Bruns McKie Myers, III, of Madison, MS, passed away Friday, November 2, 2018, at 68 years of age. The Reverend Myers was born in Jackson, MS. He was a graduate of Murrah High School in Jackson, and attended Mississippi State University where he was injured in an accident in 1970 resulting in quadriplegia. Despite his disability, he earned a B.A. in Philosophy and Biblical Studies from Belhaven College in Jackson in 1986, and a Master of Divinity Degree from the Reform Theological Seminary in Jackson in 1988. As a candidate for Holy Orders in the Episcopal Church, he was ordained the diaconate in 2001 and to the priesthood in 2002. In 1975 he entered the Mississippi Methodist Rehabilitation Center in Jackson as one of its first patients, and in 1990 began a seventeen year career working at MMRC, first in the position of Patient Representative, and beginning in 1993 as Chaplain/Ethicist. After his ordination as an Episcopal priest in 2002, he served as a priest at St. Philip’s Episcopal Church in Jackson until his death. He was a past president of the Brain Injury Association of Mississippi; past board member of the Mississippi Paralysis Association; past Chairperson of State Rehabilitation Council for the MS Department of Rehabilitation Services, and after appointment by the governor, first Chairperson of the MS Traumatic Spinal Cord and Brain Injury Advisory Council. The Reverend Bruns Myers III was the son of Bruns M. Myers, Jr., deceased, and Evelyn U. Myers, of Madison, MS. He is survived by his mother, and by his brother Randle S. Myers, and his sister Betty R. Myers. Visitation will be held at 1:30 pm Thursday Nov. 8 at St. Philip's Episcopal Church, 5400 Old Canton Road, Jackson, followed by funeral services at 3:00 pm. Burial will take place immediately following the service at Natchez Trace Memorial Park Cemetery. In lieu of flowers, the family requests memorial donations to St. Philip’s Episcopal Church, 5400 Old Canton Road Jackson, MS 39211.
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