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Floyd Alton Bullard died Jan 18, 2008 at the age of 83. Funeral services were held Jan. 21 at St. John Lutheran Church.
He was born on Sept. 20, 1924, the son of George Floyd and Mamie (Rucker) Bullard of Hamilton. His father died leav-ing his mother with seven chil-dren to raise during the depres-sion. Since he was the oldest child, Mr. Bullard assumed the responsibility of helping his mother support the family.
When he was 15, he met Ruby Rosentreter who worked at her aunt’s dairy and he even-tually went to work delivering milk.
The couple got married at Grace Lutheran Church in Dal-las on December 13th, 1942.
The Bullards lived in Dallas seeking employment and soon decided they would rather live and raise their family in Hamil-ton.
When they returned to Ham-ilton, Mr. Bullard drove a gas truck, distributing gas through-out the county. He first pur-chased a Mobil gas and later operated a Shell gas station.
He was very involved in the Hamilton Volunteer Fire De-partment where he served for 40 years. His station was close to the square and when the si-ren would sound Mr. Bullard would run to the intersection and direct traffic which allowed the fire trucks immediate pas-sage through the square. If needed, he would hop on the last truck headed for the fire.
In 1955 he was awarded a Studebaker dealership and he became well known as a car salesman. He soon expanded his business and made the tran-sition from Studebaker to a Dodge Chrysler Plymouth deal-ership.
The Bullards were very in-volved in their community and church. They joined St. John in 1941 and raised their three daughters, as active members of the congregation. Mr. Bul-lard served as a Sunday School teacher when the church was located on Leslie street.
As a businessman in the community, Mr. Bullard was a member of the Chamber of Commerce, a member of the Lions Club and an avid sup-porter of the youth of our community working with the FFA. He was awarded the Honorary Chapter Farmer Award in recognition for his support of the kids in FFA.
Throughout his life and es-pecially after his retirement, Mr. Bullard loved the game of golf. He was a member of the Perry Country Club and every week he and his friends would play. He took time to teach his brothers, daughters, son-in-laws, workers, friends, and even strangers the sport of golf. There were times he would give away a set of clubs just to encourage someone to learn to play the game. As he grew older, he was not able to play as often as he desired but his love for the game never diminished.
He was preceded in death by his parents, George Floyd and Mamie (Rucker) Bullard; a brother, Marion Bullard; a son-in-law, Ronald Eary; a grand-son, Jason Lee Eary; and one granddaughter, Sara Elizabeth Wood.
Survivors include his wife of 65 years, Ruby; his three daughters, Barbara Wood and husband, Barry, Annette Eary and friend, Wayne Martin, and Ava Knapek; grandchildren, Bryan Wood and wife, Leslie and Justin Lee Eary and wife, Tamela and three great-grandchildren, Arlie, Heide, and Denver Wood; sisters, Doris Pauline Conner of Cen-terpoint, La. and Cora May Aymond of Effie, La.; brothers, Allen Gene Bullard of Sulphur La., Oliver Clayton Bullard of Marksville, La. and Harry Ma-son Bullard of Hamilton.
Pallbearers were Mason Bullard, Larry Knapek, Barry Wood, Hubert Friesenhahn, Justin Eary, Bryan Wood, Wayne Martin and Sam Re-inke. Honorary pallbearers were members of the Hamilton Volunteer Fire Department.
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Myrtle M. (Tillie) Treadway
Myrtle M. “Tillie” Tread-way, 83, of Hamilton, died Jan. 21, 2008, at the Hamilton Gen-eral Hospital. Funeral services were held Jan. 26, at First Bap-tist Church of Hamilton with the Rev. Keith Felton officiat-ing. Burial followed at Oak-wood Cemetery under the di-rection of Riley Funeral Home of Hamilton.
Mrs. Treadway was born Dec. 6, 1924, in Stanton the daughter of Tivis Rebel and Sarah M. Hovey Abbott. She was married to C. Joe Tread-way. He preceded her in death in 1977.
She was a member of the Hamilton First Baptist Church. She served her church and her community for more than 40 years as a Sunday school teacher. She was an active member of the Eastern Star, VFW Auxiliary and the Shive Grange.
Mrs. Treadway was known mostly for her band, “Tillie and the boys,” that entertained peo-ple in the area for many years. She owned and operated the local hearing aid store where she was a hearing aid specialist and helped many people in the community with difficulty hearing.
She loved music, entertain-ing, and more especially, serv-ing her Lord and her commu-nity.
Survivors include three chil-dren, Robert Tivis Treadway and wife Vicki, Cindy Tread-way Bankston and husband Curtis and Gail Raibourn Weaver and husband, Johnny, all of Gatesville, and Jerry Nailer of Oregon; two sisters, Henri Beth Hogg of Sanderson, and Mamie Lee Harris of Ft. Stockton; six grandchildren, Robert Treadway Jr. of Gates-ville, Shannon Treadway of Gatesville, Laura Edwards of Houston, Chad Treadway and wife Amanda of Rockport, Jen-nifer Treadway of Jonesboro, and Seanna Bennett and her husband, Koy of Hamilton; five great-grandchildren, Brittany Diserens, Landon Diserens, Kaitlyn Edwards, Shelby Bank-ston and Matti Bankston and numerous nieces, nephews and cousins.
In lieu of flowers, the family requests that donations be made to the Hamilton First Baptist Church for the Mrs. Tillie's Place Fund, or the donor’s charity of choice.
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Phyllis “Jerry” Mize
Phyllis “Jerry” Mize, 75, of Hamilton died Sunday January 27, 2008 in her home. Memo-rial Services will be held at 1 p.m. in the Calvary Baptist Church in Hamilton on Satur-day Feb. 2. Mrs. Mize was cremated. The family requests that no flowers be sent but to make memorials to Huts for Mutts or Calvary Baptist Church.
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