RONALD L. BULLIS

CARTHAGE- A graveside service will be held at 11 a.m. Monday, at Carterville Cemetery for Ronald Leroy Bullis, 82, Carthage, who died Thursday, Sept. 27, 2018.

Services are under the direction of Simpson Funeral Home in Webb City.

Online condolences may be sent to www.simpsonfh.com.

Survivors include his wife, Ivaleen; three children, Susan Williams and husband TJ, Robert Bullis and wife Tammy and Kathy Shaw; six grandchildren and 10 great-grandchildren.

He was preceded in death by two sisters, Jean Ann and Edna Mae and a granddaughter, Heidi Dalton.

Mr. Bullis was born Nov. 9, 1935, in Prosperity. He and owned operated Brooklyn Heights Machine Shop for over 30 years.

He enjoyed his leatherwork and was an avid reader of Louis L’ Amour and William W. Johnstone. He loved his family and worked hard to take good care of them. He will be greatly missed by his family.

He married Ivaleen Taft on Aug. 2, 1953.