Georgia A. Gill-Elkins, St. Joseph County, Indiana, South Bend Tribune March 21, 1979, page 35

 

Roy E. Bullard

 

     Roy E. Bullard, 86, of 1221 N. Fremont, died at 6:05 p.m. Tuesday in Memorial Hospital after an extended illness. He was a contract administrator for the Air Force until retiring in 1964. Bullard moved to South Bend after World War I and was employed as an engineer for many years with the Studebaker Corp. He was born on Oct. 17, 1892, in Detroit, Mich. On July 24, 1920, in South Bend he married Ethel Wahl who survives. Also surviving are a daughter, Mrs. Harry (Dawn) Barrett of Fort Wayne and two grandchildren. Bullard was a member of the Scottish Rite, Valley of South Bend; Orak Temple, Hammond; the National Association of Retired Federal Employees; the Senior Citizens Club and the Garden Club. He was a veteran of World War I, a member of the Veterans of World War I and American Legion Post 284.
     Services will be at 2 p.m. Friday in the Welsheimer Funeral Home, 521 N. Williams, with Rev. Henry Weber, pastor of St. Paul's Memorial United Methodist Church, officiating. Interment will be in Highland Mausoleum. Friends may call from 2 to 4 and 7 to 9 p.m. Thursday in the funeral home. A Masonic memorial service will be conducted at 7 p.m. Thursday in the funeral home by St. Joseph Lodge 45 F.& A.M. where he was a 50 year member of the church.