Jimmy Harvey Bullock

August 31, 1943 ~ June 5, 2021 (age 77)

Jimmy Harvey Bullock, 77, of Fair Bluff, died on June 5, 2021 at the Lower Cape Fear Life Care Hospice in Whiteville. He was born in Horry County, SC on August 31, 1943; a son of the late Harvey Lewis Bullock and Reba Graham Bullock. Mr. Bullock was a retired Service Technician for Battle LP Gas in Nichols, SC. He was also a member of the Porter Swamp Baptist Church and was active in the Brotherhood.

Interment is in the Porter Swamp Baptist Church Cemetery.

Surviving are his wife, Rosa Lee Bullock of the home; two sons, Christopher D. Bullock and wife, Jenny, of Nichols, SC and Michael McCormick and wife, Crystal, of SC; a daughter, Sheila Connor and husband, Michael, of Fair Bluff; two sisters, Gerri Machmer and husband, Paul, of Holden Beach, and Sylvia Bissell, also of Holden Beach; seven grandchildren; and five great-grandchildren.

He is preceded in death by a brother, Charles Bullock; a sister, Lula Viola Lookabill; a grandson, Aaron McCormick; and a daughter, Erma Jean Bullock.

Memorials may be directed to the Lower Cape Fear Life Care Hospice, 206 Warrior Trail, Whiteville, NC 28472 or to the Porter Swamp Baptist Church, P.O. Box 98, Cerro Gordo, NC 28430.

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