Mary J. Bullock

SOUTH YARMOUTH - Mary J. (Connors) Bullock, died Saturday, Sept. 22, 2007, at the age of 85.

Mrs. Bullock, born in Cambridge, graduated from Cambridge High & Latin School in 1939. She graduated form Boston University, with a bachelor's degree and subsequently returned and earned a master's degree in education in 1959. During the early 1960s, she traveled extensively in Europe.

Following her marriage to the late John J. Bullock of Arlington in 1963, they resided in Lexington. Mary taught school for many years in the Somerville school system and was promoted to assistant principal. Upon retirement, Mary and John moved to South Yarmouth and spent their winters in Northport, Fla.

Mrs. Bullock was preceded in death by two sisters, Eleanor D. King of South Yarmouth, and Lillian F. Biladeau of Potomac, Md. She is survived by her two sisters, Virginia Diffin of Gold Canyon, Ariz., and Margaret ''Peggy” Harsch of Mashpee; three brothers-in-law, Robert King of South Yarmouth, Robert Bullock of Wrentham, and Edward Bullock of South Yarmouth; a sister-in-law, Ruth (Bullock) Gilmore of Spring Hill, Fla.; and several nieces and nephews.

Friends and relatives are invited to visit at the Morris & O'Connor Funeral Home, 58 Long Pond Drive, South Yarmouth, on Friday, Sept. 28, from 9 to 9:45 a.m. A funeral Mass will be celebrated at 10 a.m. at St. Pius X Church, Station Avenue, South Yarmouth. Burial will follow in Mount Pleasant Cemetery, Arlington.

Memorial donations may be made to a charity of one's choice.