Gail Marian (Rosenthal) Bruno was born on February 26, 1943 in West Allis, Wisconsin to Martin and June Rosenthal and died on August 7, 2026 in Las Vegas, Nevada. She had two sisters, Janis Duran (Robert) of Hatch, New Mexico and Gene Evans of Valparaiso, Indiana. With her dad’s work as an engineer for Texas Instruments, Gail and her family moved from Wisconsin to Illinois to Arizona and then California. Gail graduated from the University of Arizona in Tucson where she studied nutrition science and became a member of Gamma Phi Beta Sorority. Gail did her residency to become a Registered Dietitian at the University of Wisconsin Madison and began working in Phoenix at St Joe’s Hospital. If you ever asked Gail about Madison, she would tell you about the lake and the snow and how she missed Arizona.

While living in Phoenix, she was set up on a blind date with Lee Bruno, who immediately impressed Gail’s mom June when he offered June a beer. Proving that blind dates can work, the two married in 1968 in Canoga Park, California, and celebrated their 58th anniversary in August 2026. The couple settled in Kingman where their two girls, Theresa Kauffman of Fort Worth, Texas (Phil) and Lisa Bruno of Billings, Montana (Nate Downing) were born and raised. Gail was proud of the fact that both of her daughters became attorneys and went on to serve in the US Air Force. She was also proud that both of her sons-in-law attended the United States Air Force Academy and are also both veterans.

Throughout her time in Kingman, Gail worked at Kingman Regional Medical Center as a Registered Dietician and later as an instructor at Mohave Community College. Gail served on the Kingman Clean City Commission and the Mohave Museum of History and Arts Board. Gail enjoyed participating in book club as well as Soroptimist International and a local sorority. Gail also volunteered as a Girl Scout Troop leader and Kingman Dolphin Swim parent, serving on the Board and as a timer at numerous swim meets all over the state. Gail hosted exchange students from Spain and Brazil in addition to finding homes in Kingman for other Spanish students who wanted to study in Arizona. Gail was the mom who went to everything that Theresa and Lisa were involved in, from swim meets, to tennis trips, to back-to-school shopping in Las Vegas, to taking her girls in 1983 to see the Hoover Dam water levels at their highest on record, to driving across the country multiple times to take them both to law school and military training, to flying to Germany on a moment’s notice when Theresa’s military orders from Saudi Arabia sent her there, to a tour of Notre Dame’s Law School when Lisa found out during her visit that she had been accepted there.

In retirement, Gail and Lee began traveling the world and took 19 Tauck trips and 12 UniWorld cruises. Gail loved Italian Art (and the fascinating life of Caravaggio in particular), which she studied online with Italian Art Historian Elaine Ruffolo. In addition to travel, Gail loved frozen custard, foreign shows and films, HGTV, staying at Little America in Flagstaff, the deer in her yard (even though they ate her roses), and collecting linens from every country, which she treasured. She was an avid tennis and college football fan and claimed that if she didn’t watch Notre Dame football (Go Irish!) they would win and when she did watch, they would lose. She recently had a raspberry cookie from Das Dutchman Essenhaus in Middlebury, Indiana, which she declared the best cookie of her life (if you’re ever in the area).

Gail had 3 granddaughters (Claire, Harper, and Hadley) and was a cheerful supporter of their pets, summer camps, grades, college aspirations, AP scores, music, travel, and martial arts awards and competitions. She was affectionately known by her granddaughters as “GG” or“Gigi” - not as a nod to being a grandma, but because she was “Grandma Gail.”

Gail (Gigi) will always be remembered for her positive and supportive nature to all who knew her and for her impeccable elegance, grace, and sense of humor. Gail is survived by her husband, Lee, her two daughters, three grandchildren and her two sisters, as well as nieces and nephews who spread the globe from Japan, California, Washington, Arizona, Alaska to Indiana.

In her honor and in lieu of flowers, donations in Gail’s honor can be made to St Jude’s Ranch for Children in Boulder City, Nevada

Proverbs 22:6 “Train up a child in the way he should go, and when he is old he will not depart from it.”