Bobby Joe Bullard

Funeral is 11 a.m. Monday, January 20, 2014 at Aurora Baptist Church in Aurora with burial in Aurora Cemetery. The family will receive friends 4 to 6 p.m. Sunday at Christian-Hawkins Funeral Home in Boyd.

Rev. Jimmy Withers will officiate. Pallbearers include Daren Hayden, Loren Hayden, Branden Hayden, Johnny Bullard, John Bullard, and Austin White. Honorary pallbearers include Tanner Hayden, Race Hayden, and Colten Hayden.

Bobby was born June 29, 1936 to Burley and Virginia (Pike) Bullard in Fort Worth, Texas. He was united in marriage to Synda Schupbach on July 4, 2007 in Wise County. Bobby was a member of Aurora Baptist Church and the Mid Cities Anglers Club. He retired from Bell Helicopter with over 40 years of service. Bobby loved to fish, play golf, travel, shoot pool and dance. From the words of his grandson "his dance moves were legendary." Bobby will be remembered most for his love for people, laughter and enjoying life to the fullest.

The family requests that in lieu of flowers donations be made to Aurora Baptist Church in Bobby's name.

Bobby was preceded in death by his parents; his children's mother, Vaneta McDonald Bullard in 1985; his daughters, Deborah Youngblood and Sandra Bullard.

Those left behind to cherish his memory are his wife, Synda Bullard of Newark; his son, Johnny Bullard and wife Susie of Azle; his daughters, Vickie Long of Avoca, Iowa and Barbara White and husband Jack of Weatherford; his step children, Debra Patterson and husband Gary of New Jersey, Pixie Rippy of Crowley, Derek Newman and wife Kim of Lebanon, Missouri, Loren Hayden and wife Rachell of Garland, Daren Hayden and wife Becky of Saginaw and Branden Hayden and wife Angie of Mesquite; 9 grandchildren, 10 step grandchildren and 10 great grandchildren; other family members and a host of friends.

Christian-Hawkins Funeral Home, Boyd, Texas-940-433-5310