Barbara Anne Hanson Bulman

APPLE VALLEY, Minn. - "My sheep listen to my voice; I know them, and they follow me. I give them eternal life, and they will never perish. No one can snatch them away from me, for my Father has given them to me, and he is more powerful than anyone else. No one can snatch them from the Father's hand."
Barbara Anne Hanson Bulman, born May 24, 1923, Winnebago County, Forest City, died March 31, 2012, at the age of 88 years, at the Augustana Apple Valley Health Care Center in Apple Valley, Minn.
Memorial Service will be held at 11:30 a.m. Friday, April 13, 2012. Visitation Friday from 10:30 a.m. until time of service at Immanuel Lutheran Church 246 South Clark Street, Forest City. Interment in Oakland Cemetery, Forest City. The family requests memorials be given to Immanuel Lutheran Church and Waldorf College, Forest City.
Barbara Anne Hanson was born in Forest City, May 24, 1923, the seventh of eight children to parents Knut John and Gina Josephine Hanson Hanson. She was baptized at Immanuel Lutheran Church, June 17, 1923, and confirmed June 5, 1938. She entered kindergarten in the Forest City Public Schools in September, 1928; graduating May 29, 1941; and Waldorf Lutheran College 1943; and Buena Vista College in 1955 with an Education/ English major.
She taught school in Rockford, Humboldt, Sac City, Northwood and Forest City. On Sept. 10, 1949, she was married at Immanuel Lutheran Church to Neil Edward Bulman in Forest City. They established their home in Sac City, celebrating their 30th wedding anniversary in 1979.
Barbara was a devoted and loving wife and mother. She gave generously of herself to her family and friends. She was active in Education Associations in each of the schools during 32 years she taught holding offices; the NEA, Alpha Delta Kappa, Honorary teachers sorority; American Association of University Women; Winnebago Historical Society; charter member of the YMCA Board serving as its first Chairperson; Waldorf Alumni Board; Buena Vista Alumni Board, Storm Lake; Vesterheim Board of Norwegian Historical Museum, Decorah, Iowa; Buena Vista College Board of Trustees, Storm Lake, Iowa; Winnebago Industries, Inc., Board of Directors where she was employed for ten years. She was honored receiving the Distinguished Alumni Award at Waldorf College, the Distinguished Alumni Award at Buena Vista College, Storm Lake, Iowa and the Forest City High School Hall of Fame. She taught Sunday school in each of the communities she resided. She was very involved in documenting the family genealogy of all four of her Norwegian grandparents, parents and family, traveling to Norway many times to collect missing information. She enjoyed traveling to all fifty states and many countries and continents. Most recently she was living in Apple Valley, Minn.
Mrs. Bulman is survived by her son, Ned E. Bulman, Apple Valley, Minnesota and his wife, Denise; and her sister, Mrs. Dorothy Nelson, Sheboygan, Wis., and many nieces and nephews.
She is preceded in death by her husband, Neil E. Bulman, her parents Knut J, Gina J; and by her sisters Marilyn, Mrs. Margaret Wright, Mrs. Ruth Stougaard, Mrs. Enid Robinson, Mrs. Mildred Sager, and brother, John K. Hanson.
Holcomb-Henry-Boom-Purcell Funeral Homes, St. Paul, MN, 651-646-2844, www.holcombhenryboompurcell. com.