Mary Blanche Bing

Mary Blanche Bing, 88, passed away on Tuesday, July 29, 2003. She was born September 20, 1914 in Waco, Texas to Mary Elrena and Thomas Elmer Hobbs. She also had a brother, Thomas Stuart Hobbs. Mary graduated from Waco High School and then attended Texas Woman’s College (now Texas Wesleyan College) in Fort Worth for one year after which she transferred to Baylor University, graduating in 1935 with a teaching degree (B.A.). She taught third grade in the Lorena, Texas elementary school system for three years. In the intervening summers she did some graduate work at the University of Texas where she met her husband, R.H. Bing. They married in the summer of 1938 and moved to Palestine, Texas. The Bings moved to Austin in 1942 where her husband received his Ph.D. in mathematics and taught the V-12 navy boys who were in school during war time. In 1947 Mary and R.H. moved to Madison, Wisconsin where R.H. was a professor at the University of Wisconsin for 26 years. The Bings also lived briefly in Charlottesville, Virginia and Princeton, New Jersey. They traveled extensively, both in the U.S. and Europe, where Dr. Bing, an internationally known mathematician, attended conferences or gave talks. Mary has been active in the women’s groups at the University Presbyterian Church in Austin, Texas. She served as deacon, elder, and clerk of session in Westminster Presbyterian Church in Wisconsin. She also volunteered for 20 years at Brackenridge Hospital; and was a member of the Municipal Art Guild; the Highland Park Garden Club; University Faculty Wives; and Faculty Wives Social Club – Chancellors Council. And, she was a member of the Retired Faculty & Staff U.T. Club. Mary’s blessings were many – she loved God, family, and church. She looked forward to family get-togethers, especially the many cruises they took together. Mary is survived by four children: Robert H. Bing and his wife, Carol, of Austin, Texas, Susan Hannah and her husband, Steve, of Mequon, Wisconsin, Gay Hundley and her husband, Tim, of Princeton, New Jersey, Mary Pat Bing of Racine, Wisconsin and six grandchildren and two great grandchildren. Pall bearers will be grandsons Stuart, Brendan, Michael and also Mills Menke, John and Rob Scholl. The family will receive friends from 6 to 8 pm on Saturday, August 2, 2003, at Weed-Corley-Fish Funeral Home, 3125 N. Lamar. Services will be held at 3 pm on Sunday, August 3, 2003 at University Presbyterian Church, 2203 San Antonio. Interment will follow in the Cook-Walden/Capital Parks cemetery. Arrangements by Weed-Corley-Fish Funeral Home, 3125 N. Lamar, Austin, TX 78705 (512) 452-8811 You may view memorials online at www.wcfish.com