It is with great sadness that LM reports on the loss of a friend of the magazine and a friend of the industry. Brodie Bruner, executive vice president of Weathermatic, passed away last month. He was 49.
Bruner was a husband and a father of three. A graduate of Baylor University, Bruner joined Weathermatic right after college and never left. He was passionate about saving water as well as delivering clean drinking water to impoverished countries. Over the last 10 years, 30,000 people and 100 communities have been impacted by Bruner’s and Weathermatic’s efforts.
A frequent guest on LM’s YouTube channel, LM’s Editor-in-Chief Seth Jones once tried to catch Bruner off-guard with a surprise question: did his Baylor Bears have what it takes to win it all? “(The basketball) I see is making me start to believe,” Bruner said. “(Coach) Scott Drew, our Baylor Bears, they’ve got what it takes.”
The Bears went on to win the 2021 national championship, beating Villanova 86-70.
