Bruce Hart

It is with heavy hearts that we announce the passing of Bruce William Hart at the age of 69 in Twin Falls, Idaho on November 9, 2025. Bruce was born on November 18, 1955, in Redlands, California to Bob and Janice Hart. He was soon joined by his younger brother, Gary. The Hart boys and their friends lived the Mentone Beach lifestyle playing in the dirt, hiking, racing dirt bikes through the orange groves, off roading in the hills, and enjoying their parent’s shop “Bob’s Dunebuggies.” Bruce was taught the power of hard work and family by his parents. They were an ambitious couple who built a successful business in Mentone, California from the ground up.

Bruce began his lifetime career at twenty years old as a land surveyor and soon began working with Hicks and Hartwick in Redlands, California. The outdoors became his office. In the summer of 1983 Bruce had his first date with his one true love, Cynthia Lee Braga (Sewell). They spent the evening overlooking Mentone on top of The Plateau while sipping beer in the back of his blue 1982 Toyota pickup. In 1988 they married in Las Vegas, Nevada at the Candlelight Wedding Chapel.

Bruce and Cindy invested in their first home in the small town of Forest Falls, California. They got a taste of mountain life and all the earthquakes, fires, and flashfloods that came along with the territory. After building a life and a beautiful home in Forest Falls with their two kids they decided to make the move to Hailey, Idaho in 1994 to live a simpler life. Bruce was recruited immediately and continued his career as a land surveyor with Galena Engineering where he remained employed until his retirement in 2022. He made life-long friends at Galena Engineering, and his office was the beautiful landscape of the Wood River Valley.

You’ll never meet another man like Bruce. His style and personality were entirely his own. He was witty, sentimental, grateful, loyal, and he loved his friends, family, and pets deeply. Bruce was born with a heart wired for adventure, and he blessed, thrilled and sometimes scared friends and family throughout the years with that wild side. Ask anyone who knows him and you will hear stories of fast rides, close calls, laughter, and unforgettable moments that became family legends. He was a fierce protector of good times, was humble, and careful not to sweat the small stuff.

Bruce had a lifelong love for nature and for the thrill of exploring it. His children grew up in “River Mode” alongside him, spending countless days at the Colorado River with jet skis, friends, and family. Over the years, that sense of adventure expanded. Bruce took the RZR into the hills of Lake Havasu, rode snowmobiles through the Sawtooth Mountains, tore through trails on dirt bikes, roamed through nature on the quad with his wife, and enjoyed the wild wilderness camping and fishing. He lived with a bold spirit, and he made sure his kids understood the meaning of adventure and respect for nature from a young age. Camping throughout Idaho was one of the Hart families’ favorite things to do. Bruce forged trails never traveled, carving glassy water on jet skis, stomping through untouched brush, and white-water rafting with only family as the guide.

Bruce is survived by his wife, Cindy Hart, son Sheldon Hart, daughter Brooke Braga, son-in-law Jeremiah Hammon, and his cow dog Jack London Hart. He was preceded in death by his mother Janice Hart, father Bob Hart, and brother Gary Hart.

Bruce will always be known as our fun guy; our Hart. We will miss him dearly and will honor his legacy through continuing his spirit of adventure, appreciation of nature, gratefulness for our blessings, reciting a “Bruce-ism when it comes to mind, and the love and loyalty for our family and friends.

A celebration of life will be held in Hailey, Idaho in the summer of 2026.