GLENS FALLS – Colleen Bullock, 82, formerly of Glens Falls and Fort Ann, passed away on Friday, August 18, 2023, at Wesley Health Care Center in Saratoga Springs.
Born on March 26, 1941, in Glens Falls, she was the daughter of the late Joseph and Ann (Reardon/Riordan) Lashway.
Colleen was a 1959 graduate of Glens Falls High School. Following her graduation, she worked as a waitress with her best friend Delores Devizzio at the luxury resort The Breakers in West Palm Beach, Florida. In later years she also waitressed at local favorites Ridge Terrace and Red Fez Restaurant, as well as Warren’s Lobster House in Kittery, Maine. It was also while working at a restaurant in Maine, where Colleen met her lifelong friend Carol Baldinger who nicknamed her ‘Beanie’.
On January 14, 1961, she married David Bullock at St. Mary’s Church in Glens Falls. With David serving in the US Navy, they had the opportunity to live in many different places from coastal cities of New England and Midway Island in the Pacific and lastly on the Gulf of Mexico in Gulfport, Mississippi.
In 1978, after David’s retirement from the Seabees, they moved back to the area and settled in their home on Pattens Mills Road, Fort Ann. Shortly after moving back, Colleen went to work for the papermill in South Glens Falls in the Converting Department. The mill had changed hands several times during her career before her retirement from SCA Tissue on January 11, 2008.
She was an active member of the Red Hat Society with her sisters. Colleen loved to collect all kinds of dolls and had never met a dessert she didn’t like; she was known to look at the dessert menu first when she was out to eat. Colleen enjoyed travelling and visited Canada, France, Italy and Ireland with her friend Bev Underwood, sometimes bringing the husbands along. During the summers she could be found enjoying the family’s camp site on the Hudson River in South Glens Falls. Throughout her life she has had many pets, whom she loved dearly.
In addition to her parents, she was predeceased by her husband, David Bullock who passed away in 1999, her siblings, Helen Bolton, Patricia Robichaud, Barbara Miller, Joseph “Buddy” Lashway and Gene Lashway.
She is survived by her son, Michael Bullock and his wife, Maria of Corinth, and many nieces, nephews, great nieces, great nephews and cousins.
Calling hours will be on Friday, August 25, 2023, from 10 to 11 a.m. at the Carleton Funeral Home, Inc., 68 Main Street in Hudson Falls.
Funeral services will follow at 11 am on Friday, at the funeral home.
The Rite of Committal will be at the Gerald BH Solomon Saratoga National Cemetery at 12:30 in Schuylerville.
Colleen’s family would like to thank the staff at the Wesley Health Care Center for all their care and compassion given to Colleen and her family for the past several years. And an extra special thanks to her niece Teena Weber and her special love for her Aunt Colleen. In lieu of flowers, memorial donations can be sent to the SPCA of Upstate NY, 588 Queensbury Ave, Queensbury, NY 12804 or the Alzheimer’s Association, 1003 Loudon Rd, Cohoes, NY 12047.
My deepest condolences to Maria and Michael.
Although things have changed in the past few years, we still have
a lot of memories of all the good times we had.
Love to both of you. Margaret May
Sincere sympathy to Michael and Maria. I didn’t know Colleen but wished I had. Death is permanent but the memories live on. God bless. RIP Colleen
RIP my friend, I don’t remember life without you. You and Squeak hanging out at our house when you were young teen agers, you guys attended our family gatherings all of your time that you lived in the area. We worked together for many yrs at SCA. I could go on about our vacations together and some really funny and also some of our very odd many adventures.