Published in The News-Courier, Athens, AL, May 10, 2011.
Thomas Dave Bullington, 86, of Athens died peacefully Saturday, May 7, 2011, at the Athens-Limestone Hospital.
Services will be at 11 a.m. today at Limestone Chapel Funeral Home with burial in Roselawn Cemetery. Tom's beloved friend, Sewell Hall, will be officiating the service.
Tom was born May 13, 1924, to Melvin E. Bullington and Minnie Lee Noblitt Bullington. He was a life-long resident of Limestone County where he had agricultural and business interests. He will be remembered most as a servant leader giving of himself to his family, church, and all who knew him. His compassion, patience, goodness, kindness, faithfulness, gentleness, joy, and love were evident to all.
Tom worshipped with the Eastside Church of Christ where he served 27 years as an elder. He served on the Athens Bible School board of directors for 19 years and received the Bridge Builder Award.
In 2001, he was awarded his diploma from Athens High School in recognition that World War II had interrupted cirriculums for many veterans. He volunteered for service in the U.S. Army Air Force in 1944 and was stationed at Flixton Field, England, in early 1945. He was honorably discharged in 1946 at the rank of master sergeant and began farming in partnership with his father. He later founded with his brother, Robert, a plumbing, electrical, and mechanical business named Bullington Brothers. He taught those who worked with him not only the skills of a trade but pride in their work. His job of woodworking and building things was exceeded only by his job of making mechanical things run - especially clocks.
He was preceded in death by his parents; his stepmother, Hattie Lee Stinnett Bullington; two sisters, Catherine Pittman and Cindy Reynolds; and two brothers, Melvin Bullington and Robert Bullington.
He is survived by his loving wife of 66 years, Margaret Gey Bullington; his four children and their spouses, Shirley and Wayne Holt, Larry and Pat Bullington, James and Sandra Bullington, all of Athens, and David and Molly Bullington of Baton Rouge, LA; 10 grandchildren, 13 great-grandchildren, one great-great-grandchild; and a brother, Joe Bullington and wife Paula of the Thach community.
Pallbearers will be Greg Nix, Greg Steele, Eric Patterson, Scott Abernathy, Gary Boyd, Brent Horne, Vernon Reece, Craig Calvert and Mike Bryant.
Thomas Dave Bullington, 86, of Athens died peacefully Saturday, May 7, 2011, at the Athens-Limestone Hospital.
Services will be at 11 a.m. today at Limestone Chapel Funeral Home with burial in Roselawn Cemetery. Tom's beloved friend, Sewell Hall, will be officiating the service.
Tom was born May 13, 1924, to Melvin E. Bullington and Minnie Lee Noblitt Bullington. He was a life-long resident of Limestone County where he had agricultural and business interests. He will be remembered most as a servant leader giving of himself to his family, church, and all who knew him. His compassion, patience, goodness, kindness, faithfulness, gentleness, joy, and love were evident to all.
Tom worshipped with the Eastside Church of Christ where he served 27 years as an elder. He served on the Athens Bible School board of directors for 19 years and received the Bridge Builder Award.
In 2001, he was awarded his diploma from Athens High School in recognition that World War II had interrupted cirriculums for many veterans. He volunteered for service in the U.S. Army Air Force in 1944 and was stationed at Flixton Field, England, in early 1945. He was honorably discharged in 1946 at the rank of master sergeant and began farming in partnership with his father. He later founded with his brother, Robert, a plumbing, electrical, and mechanical business named Bullington Brothers. He taught those who worked with him not only the skills of a trade but pride in their work. His job of woodworking and building things was exceeded only by his job of making mechanical things run - especially clocks.
He was preceded in death by his parents; his stepmother, Hattie Lee Stinnett Bullington; two sisters, Catherine Pittman and Cindy Reynolds; and two brothers, Melvin Bullington and Robert Bullington.
He is survived by his loving wife of 66 years, Margaret Gey Bullington; his four children and their spouses, Shirley and Wayne Holt, Larry and Pat Bullington, James and Sandra Bullington, all of Athens, and David and Molly Bullington of Baton Rouge, LA; 10 grandchildren, 13 great-grandchildren, one great-great-grandchild; and a brother, Joe Bullington and wife Paula of the Thach community.
Pallbearers will be Greg Nix, Greg Steele, Eric Patterson, Scott Abernathy, Gary Boyd, Brent Horne, Vernon Reece, Craig Calvert and Mike Bryant.
Published in The News-Courier, Athens, AL, May 10, 2011.
Thomas Dave Bullington, 86, of Athens died peacefully Saturday, May 7, 2011, at the Athens-Limestone Hospital.
Services will be at 11 a.m. today at Limestone Chapel Funeral Home with burial in Roselawn Cemetery. Tom's beloved friend, Sewell Hall, will be officiating the service.
Tom was born May 13, 1924, to Melvin E. Bullington and Minnie Lee Noblitt Bullington. He was a life-long resident of Limestone County where he had agricultural and business interests. He will be remembered most as a servant leader giving of himself to his family, church, and all who knew him. His compassion, patience, goodness, kindness, faithfulness, gentleness, joy, and love were evident to all.
Tom worshipped with the Eastside Church of Christ where he served 27 years as an elder. He served on the Athens Bible School board of directors for 19 years and received the Bridge Builder Award.
In 2001, he was awarded his diploma from Athens High School in recognition that World War II had interrupted cirriculums for many veterans. He volunteered for service in the U.S. Army Air Force in 1944 and was stationed at Flixton Field, England, in early 1945. He was honorably discharged in 1946 at the rank of master sergeant and began farming in partnership with his father. He later founded with his brother, Robert, a plumbing, electrical, and mechanical business named Bullington Brothers. He taught those who worked with him not only the skills of a trade but pride in their work. His job of woodworking and building things was exceeded only by his job of making mechanical things run - especially clocks.
He was preceded in death by his parents; his stepmother, Hattie Lee Stinnett Bullington; two sisters, Catherine Pittman and Cindy Reynolds; and two brothers, Melvin Bullington and Robert Bullington.
He is survived by his loving wife of 66 years, Margaret Gey Bullington; his four children and their spouses, Shirley and Wayne Holt, Larry and Pat Bullington, James and Sandra Bullington, all of Athens, and David and Molly Bullington of Baton Rouge, LA; 10 grandchildren, 13 great-grandchildren, one great-great-grandchild; and a brother, Joe Bullington and wife Paula of the Thach community.
Pallbearers will be Greg Nix, Greg Steele, Eric Patterson, Scott Abernathy, Gary Boyd, Brent Horne, Vernon Reece, Craig Calvert and Mike Bryant.
Thomas Dave Bullington, 86, of Athens died peacefully Saturday, May 7, 2011, at the Athens-Limestone Hospital.
Services will be at 11 a.m. today at Limestone Chapel Funeral Home with burial in Roselawn Cemetery. Tom's beloved friend, Sewell Hall, will be officiating the service.
Tom was born May 13, 1924, to Melvin E. Bullington and Minnie Lee Noblitt Bullington. He was a life-long resident of Limestone County where he had agricultural and business interests. He will be remembered most as a servant leader giving of himself to his family, church, and all who knew him. His compassion, patience, goodness, kindness, faithfulness, gentleness, joy, and love were evident to all.
Tom worshipped with the Eastside Church of Christ where he served 27 years as an elder. He served on the Athens Bible School board of directors for 19 years and received the Bridge Builder Award.
In 2001, he was awarded his diploma from Athens High School in recognition that World War II had interrupted cirriculums for many veterans. He volunteered for service in the U.S. Army Air Force in 1944 and was stationed at Flixton Field, England, in early 1945. He was honorably discharged in 1946 at the rank of master sergeant and began farming in partnership with his father. He later founded with his brother, Robert, a plumbing, electrical, and mechanical business named Bullington Brothers. He taught those who worked with him not only the skills of a trade but pride in their work. His job of woodworking and building things was exceeded only by his job of making mechanical things run - especially clocks.
He was preceded in death by his parents; his stepmother, Hattie Lee Stinnett Bullington; two sisters, Catherine Pittman and Cindy Reynolds; and two brothers, Melvin Bullington and Robert Bullington.
He is survived by his loving wife of 66 years, Margaret Gey Bullington; his four children and their spouses, Shirley and Wayne Holt, Larry and Pat Bullington, James and Sandra Bullington, all of Athens, and David and Molly Bullington of Baton Rouge, LA; 10 grandchildren, 13 great-grandchildren, one great-great-grandchild; and a brother, Joe Bullington and wife Paula of the Thach community.
Pallbearers will be Greg Nix, Greg Steele, Eric Patterson, Scott Abernathy, Gary Boyd, Brent Horne, Vernon Reece, Craig Calvert and Mike Bryant.
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