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Jim was born on March 3, 1948 to Bertha and Arthur Bruening. He grew up on the family farm, Teacups’s View. The farm was located between North Star and Yorkshire, Ohio, in farming country. Jim was the oldest of six children, Betty, Jake, John, Joe and Bernadette. Jim attended elementary school in North Star and high School in Versailles, Ohio. He was in FFA and 4-H during high school. He graduated from Versailles High School and then Indiana Institute of Technology in 1970 and during the same week he married Rebecca (Becky) Simon on May 27. They lived in Griffith, Indiana and moved to Greenville, SC in 1973 after graduating from Purdue University, Calumet campus. In Greenville Jim worked for Fiber Industries.