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THE BOARD OF SUPERVISORS
CONTRA COSTA COUNTY, CALIFORNIA
Date: June 12, 2001 Adjournment
On this date, the Board of Supervisors adjourned this meeting in honor of the
memory of Lafayette resident, Russell J. Bruzzone. Mr. Bruzzone was the builder
of the Moraga Shopping Center in Moraga and Plaza Shopping Center, as well as
homes in the Burton Valley and Happy Valley areas of Lafayette.
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TIMES STAFF WRITER -Joan Bruzzone,
LAFAYETTE -- Developer Russell Bruzzone's Me
Russell Bruzzone, who built
shopping centers and hundreds
of custom homes in Lafayette nightmare," she
and Moraga, died Sunday of car- said, because of
diac arrest at the University ofdevelopment
California Medical Center in San controls "and
Francisco. He was 75. the, way people
Bruzzone had had several vilified him and
heart attacks in recent years and destroyed a
underwent a kidney transplant lot of what he
about seven years ago, said his Bruzzone felt was impor-
daughter, Kathryn Bruzzone of tant.it
Lafayette. He was hospitalized He was raised in Oakland and
for about 10 days before his spent part of his boyhood work-
ing on a Lafayette ranch owned
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and Senate versions of the bud-
get show a large difft;rence.The
Assembly budget provides $750
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Russell I Bruzzone
Russell J. Bruzzone, a Lamorinda
real egtate deve)oper of 45 years,died
Sunday at the UCSF Medical Center of
a cardiac arrest. He was 75.
Born in Oakland,Mr.Bruzzone grew
up in the Rockridge Avenue area of
Oakland with his beloved parents Jo-
seph and Delia Bruzzone and his
brother and sister,Milton and Joyce.
He attended Berkeley High, the Uni-
versity of California at Berkeley,where
he graduated in 1948 Phi Beta Kappa
in Mechanical Engineering, played on
Cal's National Championship baseball
team and served in the V12.After Cal ,
he attended Stanford University,
where he earned his MBA.
After Stanford, Mr. Bruzzone
worked for the California Research and
Development division of Standard Oil,
where he met his loving and devoted
wife of 50 years, Joan Eck Bruzzone.
Recognizing the stifling affect of cor-
porate life on the entrepenural spirit,
they,with their first child and pregnant
with twins, moved to Maracaibo,Ven-
ezuela,with a close Stanford Business
School classmate to strike it rich, not
in oil, but in ice cream. Family soon
prevailed over foreign pursuits and the
5 Bruzzones returned to the Bay Area
in 1954 with many dreams and a
willingness to work hard.They settled
in Lafayette and started a development
business. He built and sold his first
house in 1954, acquired several hill-
side lots adjacent to now Highway 24
in Lafayette which he developed into
the Plaza Shopping Center, and later
in the early 60's he purchased the
Moraga Ranch from Utah Construc-
tion, pledging the little he had but
riving his unconditional word of repay-
ment. Because of Utah's faith.in this
ntegrity, work ethic and vision, they
,xtended the financial support needed
o repay that debt through many diffi-
:ult times and to help him achieve his
Iream of developing Lafayette's Bur-
)n Valley,and substantial parts of
4oraga.
To his family and those who truly
new him, he was a visionary, a bea-
m for fairness and justice,a person of
ie utmost integrity,forceful but digni-
3d, passionate; intellectually curious
id most importantly, loving and car-
g. He will be truly missed.
He is survived by his wife, Joan
'uzzone of Lafayette;his six children,
ate, Stephen, David, Rick, Kip and
wl, all of Lafayette or Moraga; and
six grandchildren, Joe, Ted, Nick,
ice, Katie, Kenny and Matt. He was
ich loved by this daughters-in-law,
iny, Lisa, and Mary Bruzzone.
4 memorial service will be held on
ursday at 2 p.m. at St. Perpetua
tholic Church, 3454 Hamlin Road,
:ayette,California.A 7:00 p.m. Ro-
y Service will be held at St. Perpe-
the night before;Wednesday,June
Those who wish to, may make a
cation in his name to (1) Kidney
nsplant Empram at Univpmity rff