Bobbie Jo Bullock's Obituary
Bobbie Jo Currie Bullock
Mass of Christian Burial for Bobbie Jo Currie Bullock, Corpus Christi, formerly of Longview, will be Friday, March 26, 2004 at 2 PM at St. Mary?s Catholic Church in Longview with Father Publius Xuereb officiating. Rosary will be recited at 7 PM Thursday, March 25 at Rader Funeral Home. Following the Rosary, friends and family will be invited to share any special memories of Bobbie. Burial will be in Memory Park Cemetery, Longview. She died Monday, March 22, in Corpus Christi.
Mrs. Bullock was born March 29, 1929, in Dierks, Arkansas, to Bob Currie and Mary Etta Jester Currie, and she married Jack William Bullock in 1945. Mrs. Bullock raised a family and worked part-time in the Chicago area from 1950 to 1970. She trained and worked as an LVN from 1971 to 1974 at Arlington Memorial Hospital, Arlington, Texas. From 1974 to 1985, she was a pediatric nurse for Dr. Robert K. Portman, Jr. in Arlington, and later worked as a charge nurse at Highland Pines Convalescent Center in Longview. Prior to her retirement in 1994, she worked as a nurse/counselor at Meadow Pines Psychiatric Hospital in Longview.
She volunteered her experience on behalf of children with Down?s Syndrome, and worked with the Head Start Program in the 1960?s. She was a member of St. Andrews by the Sea Roman Catholic Parish in Corpus Christi, Texas.
She was preceded in death by her parents, the father of her children, Jack William Bullock, and her daughter, Judith Arlene Bullock.
Those left to cherish her memory are her children, James L. Bullock of the U.S. Embassy in Cairo, Egypt, Richard D. Bullock of Flagstaff, Arizona, Rebecca S. Rathman of Dallas, and Joan C. Kohlschmidt of Corpus Christi; sister, Evelyn ?Genell? Threlkeld of Sheridan, Arkansas; brother, Bill Currie of Elizabethton, Tennessee; grandchildren, Ryan R. Rathman of San Francisco, California, Dusty L. Burrows of Dallas, Rachel R. Hairford of Dallas, James Cotton Burrows of The Colony, TX., William Bullock of Baltimore, Maryland, Sybil J. Bullock of the U.S. Embassy in Cairo, and Cyprien J. Bullock also of the U.S. Embassy in Cairo; great-grandchildren, Jordan C. Burrows of The Colony, Austin E. Burrows of Dallas, Sydney N. Burrows of Dallas, and Bridget M. Bullock of Baltimore.
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