Mrs. Laura Esterlene Bulin, 101, went home to be with her Lord and Savior Jesus Christ on October 4, 2019.
Services will be 11:00 am Thursday October 10, 2019 at Bellmead Funeral Home Chapel. Visitation will be 10:00 am till service time. Burial will be at Waco Memorial Park.
She was born February 21, 1918 in Freestone County, Texas to Willard and Eliza (Evans) Ellis. She attended school in Donie, Texas where she graduated in 1937. After graduation, she moved to Waco, Texas and began working as a seamstress for manufacturing companies.
She married Ellis Bulin on December 19, 1942 and was a homemaker for many years and an accomplished seamstress and quilter. They moved to Bellmead, Texas in 1952 and lived there until their retirement in 1984.
Esterlene moved to Troup, Texas in 1984 after the passing of her beloved husband and spent many years enjoying her daughters, grandchildren, and church family, and keeping busy with her hobbies of gardening, sewing, and quilting.
Esterlene is known to her grandchildren and many others as Meme. She adored her grandchildren and great-grandchildren spending as much time as possible with them. She always said that no one enjoyed their grandchildren as much as she did.
She was preceded in death by her parents, Willard and Eliza Ellis; her husband, Ellis Bulin; 5 brothers and 3 sisters.
Survived by her daughters, Trudy Watson and Gail White and husband David; her grandchildren, Scott Medearis and wife Sarah of Pasadena, Texas, Ginger Deck and husband Kenneth of Tarkington, Texas and Denise Hazen and husband Timothy of Sidney, Montana; her great-grandchildren, Trae Deck, Natalie Deck, Ellis Hazen, Corbin Hazen and Pierce Hazen; one sister, Nelle Bulin; and Many Nieces, Nephews and Friends.