Maria Louise Day Bullard

Maria Louise Day Bullard passed peacefully to be with our Lord at 1:22 am on April 11, 2025 at the age of 61. She was born on July 1, 1963 in Milton, Florida to Russell Albert Day and Shirley Magruder Day. She spent most of her life in Milton, Pensacola, and St Petersburg Florida except for a few years living in Lakewood, Colorado during grade school. She graduated from Northeast High School in St. Petersburg and the University of West Florida in Pensacola (Accounting). She spent her working years in accounting and hospital admissions.
As a child, in Milton, Maria enjoyed outdoor activities (swinging, kick ball, and neighborhood hide-and-seek), playing dolls with her older sisters, bicycle riding, gathering pecans, Blackwater River and Santa Rosa Island. Later she spent many weekends camping and visiting a friend's ranch in the Rocky Mountains of Colorado. She traveled frequently to see her relatives in places such as Maine, Vermont, Maryland, Mississippi, Texas, Virginia, Hawaii, and Illinois. She loved the color purple, animals (especially dogs (Tinker, Inga, Duvette, and Chico), cats, guinea pigs, and penguins), her biking trip in Europe, cruising, Disney World, Sea World and being near/on the water.
Maria was a kind-hearted person who spent most of her life dealing with medical issues associated with being diagnosed with diabetes as a child. Maria was predeceased by her parents, grandparents Walter and Mabel Magruder and Albert and Ola (Dolly) Day. She is survived by her husband James Bullard, his mother Betty and his daughters Raven (son Bjorn) and Jessica (Garrison); sisters Ellen (son James (Kristi) and family) and Annette (Doug), son Robert (Kanjana) and daughter Sara (Andrew and family); and family friend Nancy of Colorado.
In lieu of flowers, memorials can be made to the American Diabetes Association and American Heart Association.