Betty R. Bruny, 96, of Monroe, died Monday, September 14, 2015, at the New Glarus Home. She was born Betty Frances Daugherty in Wabash, Indiana, on October 8, 1918, the daughter of Brice and Josephine Daugherty. In 1936, she graduated from Wabash High School, where her gifted English teacher Ruth Jones gave her a lifelong love of Shakespeare.