Ann K. Bullock
January 3, 2024 at 5:40 p.m.
Ann K. Bullock, 88, Warsaw, passed away at 4:25 p.m. on Saturday, Dec. 16, 2023, at Hickory Creek Nursing Home in Franklin.
Ann was born on Sept. 29, 1935, in Elkhart, to Clare and Ruth Young Ransbottom, and grew up there. She graduated in 1954 from Elkhart High School. After school, she worked as a secretary at the First National Bank of Elkhart.
In the early 1960s she moved to Louisville, Ky. There she had three children with her first husband and started a business grooming and showing standard poodles. She moved to El Cerrito, California, in 1974, where she was an avid Girl Scout volunteer and summer day camp leader.
She married her beloved husband George Bullock on Oct. 8, 1995. They moved to Englewood, Fla., in 1996. She and George were real estate agents for Manasota Key Realty in Englewood, Fla., for many years. After leaving the real estate business, they traveled and worked together on many entrepreneurial endeavors before retiring to their summer home in Warsaw in 2016.
She was a member of St. Anne's Episcopal Church of Warsaw, and a former member of St. Margaret of Scotland Episcopal Church in Sarasota, Fla.
Ann is survived by two daughters, Kelly Powers (Chris Shuford), of El Cerrito, Calif.; and Kerri Powers Hoffman (Ty Hoffman), of Franklin; a son, Christian P. Powers, of McClure, Ohio; a stepdaughter, Cynthia Bullock Szuch, of Durham, N.C.; and four stepsons: Mark Bullock, of Elkhart; Chris (Tracy) Bullock, of Goshen; Brian (Jacque Fetrow) Kell, of Reading, Pa.; and David (Nancy Walters) Kell, of San Anselmo, Calif.; and 18 grandchildren and 16 great-grandchildren.
She was preceded in death by her parents and her husband, George.
A Celebration of Life service for Ann will be held at 11 a.m. on June 22 at St. Anne’s Episcopal Church, 424 W. Market St., Warsaw. Burial will be in the Oakwood Cemetery in Warsaw.
Preferred memorials may be given to St. Anne's Episcopal Church, 424 W. Market St., Warsaw, IN 46580, https://stanneswarsaw.org/; or to The Girl Scouts of the USA, https://www.girlscouts.org/en/support-us/invest/donate/donate-now.html.
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Ann K. Bullock, 88, Warsaw, passed away at 4:25 p.m. on Saturday, Dec. 16, 2023, at Hickory Creek Nursing Home in Franklin.
Ann was born on Sept. 29, 1935, in Elkhart, to Clare and Ruth Young Ransbottom, and grew up there. She graduated in 1954 from Elkhart High School. After school, she worked as a secretary at the First National Bank of Elkhart.
In the early 1960s she moved to Louisville, Ky. There she had three children with her first husband and started a business grooming and showing standard poodles. She moved to El Cerrito, California, in 1974, where she was an avid Girl Scout volunteer and summer day camp leader.
She married her beloved husband George Bullock on Oct. 8, 1995. They moved to Englewood, Fla., in 1996. She and George were real estate agents for Manasota Key Realty in Englewood, Fla., for many years. After leaving the real estate business, they traveled and worked together on many entrepreneurial endeavors before retiring to their summer home in Warsaw in 2016.
She was a member of St. Anne's Episcopal Church of Warsaw, and a former member of St. Margaret of Scotland Episcopal Church in Sarasota, Fla.
Ann is survived by two daughters, Kelly Powers (Chris Shuford), of El Cerrito, Calif.; and Kerri Powers Hoffman (Ty Hoffman), of Franklin; a son, Christian P. Powers, of McClure, Ohio; a stepdaughter, Cynthia Bullock Szuch, of Durham, N.C.; and four stepsons: Mark Bullock, of Elkhart; Chris (Tracy) Bullock, of Goshen; Brian (Jacque Fetrow) Kell, of Reading, Pa.; and David (Nancy Walters) Kell, of San Anselmo, Calif.; and 18 grandchildren and 16 great-grandchildren.
She was preceded in death by her parents and her husband, George.
A Celebration of Life service for Ann will be held at 11 a.m. on June 22 at St. Anne’s Episcopal Church, 424 W. Market St., Warsaw. Burial will be in the Oakwood Cemetery in Warsaw.
Preferred memorials may be given to St. Anne's Episcopal Church, 424 W. Market St., Warsaw, IN 46580, https://stanneswarsaw.org/; or to The Girl Scouts of the USA, https://www.girlscouts.org/en/support-us/invest/donate/donate-now.html.