Ann Bullock

Ann K. Bullock, 88, of Warsaw, Indiana, passed away at 4:25 p.m. on Saturday, December 16, 2023, at Hickory Creek Nursing Home in Franklin, IN.

Ann was born on Sept. 29, 1935, in Elkhart, Indiana, 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, Kentucky. 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, Florida, in 1996. She and George were real estate agents for Manasota Key Realty in Englewood, Florida 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, Florida.

Ann is survived by two daughters, Kelly Powers (Chris Shuford) of El Cerrito, California and Kerri Powers Hoffman (Ty Hoffman) of Franklin, Indiana; a son Christian P. Powers of McClure, Ohio; a stepdaughter, Cynthia Bullock Szuch of Durham, North Carolina;  and four stepsons, Mark Bullock of Elkhart, Indiana, Chris (Tracy) Bullock of Goshen, Indiana, Brian (Jacque Fetrow) Kell of Reading, Pennsylvania, and David (Nancy Walters) Kell of San Anselmo, California, 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 11AM on June 22, 2024, at St. Anne’s Episcopal Church, 424 W. Market Street, Warsaw, IN 46580. 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