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Lacey Brute (1918-2000)

Childhood Born in rural Montana to a cattle rancher. He learned responsibility at an early age when his dad died in a cattle stampede when he was 5. He witness his dad's death while helping his dad out moving cattle from the pasture in early spring. He then took over his dad's responsibility from then on out. When he was 12 his mom (Mary Brute) met John Kylin and married him in 1930. John was very abusive to Lacey and regularly engaged in physical altercations. At 17 Lacey left home and enlisted into United States marine Core.