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Henry Rungay
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Automobile dealer, realtor, community activist.
Born at Portage la Prairie on 14 October 1915, son of Henry Smalley Rungay and Leado Beryl Hunter (1888-1978), he attended Newdale School to grade 11. After working as a truck driver, gas jockey, and coal and wood deliveryman, at age 20 he enrolled at the Brandon Technical School to take a mechanics course. In 1936, he began a 32-year career with Western Motors, interrupted during the Second World War with service in the Royal Canadian Ordinance Corps, ending in 1969 as a sales manager. In 1970, he formed Martin-Rungay Realty and, in 1988, he received honorary life membership in the Brandon Real Estate Board.
Active in the community, He served on the management board for the Provincial Exhibition of Manitoba from 1957 to 1968 and served as President (1962-1964). He was a member of the Royal Canadian Legion, Associated Canadian Travellers (President, 1947), Masons (Tweed and Fenwick Lodges). He served as President of the Brandon Shrine Club (1952) and, in 1953, brought the Shrine Circus to Brandon for the first time. He was a director of the Brandon Flying Club (1950-1961, Vice-President 1952, President 1953-1959). He served on the boards of the Boy Scouts, Rotary, First United Church, and Brandon Liberal Association (President). In retirement, he delivered Meals on Wheels and visited hospital and personal care home shut-ins.
He and wife Doreen Marie Craig (1923-2012) had a daughter and a son before separating.
He died at Brandon on 15 October 2003 and was buried in the Rosewood Memorial Gardens.
Birth registration [Henry Rungay], Manitoba Vital Statistics.
Obituary, Brandon Sun, 18 October 2003, page 72.
Obituary [Doreen Marie Craig], Brandon Sun, 14 January 2012.
Pride of the Land, An Affectionate History of Brandon's Agricultural Exhibitions by Ken Coates and Fred McGuinness, Winnipeg: Peguis Publishers, 1985.
This page was prepared by Gordon Goldsborough.
Page revised: 23 April 2026
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