Beulah P. Puls

Beulah “Billie” Pearl Puls Was the 10th child born (of 12) to Ralph Clinton Bradley, a mailman and sharecropper, and Emily Thigpen Bradley, a Cherokee Indian and homemaker. She was delivered into this world by her two (2) Aunts Beulah & Pearl on Friday November 29, 1929 in a two (2) room house in Slater, in Coryell Co., TX. Billie was tough as nails and wouldn’t give up struggled with heart problems and declining dementia for two (2) decades, but finely lost that battle on August 14,2016, and was the last of her family to join our father in Heaven . Billie started 1st grade at four (4) years old (common in though days) in a seven (7) room school house in Pearl TX., with many of her other siblings to watch over her. They had to come home from school to work the cotton fields and do the farm chores before finishing their homework by candlelight. Billie made high marks throw school and was elected as a Basketball Cheerleader, which may have been short lived in the country, but left a lifetime of memories for Billie. When Billie finished the 11th grade, the ones who weren’t off to war, help move the family to Houston. After doing a few classes at the University of Houston, Billie found her first job with a magazine company and travailed across the United States on assignments, a country girl of sixteen ( 16), seeing cities like Boston, Dallas, Kansas City, Pittsburg, Wichita, and New York. After a year of this traveling Billie arrived home; where her sister, Vivian, arrange a blind date with John Puls, who would end up being her future husband. She would marry him shortly after they met. John was a 20 year old dark complexed, friendly, construction worker, like to dance, party, an ex-Navy that liked to have a good time which seemed to be Billie’s type of match. They opened a Traven, which Billie ran, to keep her from traveling so must and home during her pregnancy. In December of 1947, their son Larry was born, who seemed to change their lives. Billie went back to work after about a year to Houston Central Warehouse where she would do office work for thirty-three (33) years. John and Billie like to fish, hunt, travel, gamble, and work together. They built a bay house in 1952, that wasn’t only for them, but also their sibling, who usually join them every week-end for fish-fry’s, crab-boils, or just sandwiches. The many Easter-egg hunts, Memorial Days, July 4ths , Labor Day BBQs, Thanksgiving, and Christmas parties that were celebrated over sixteen (16) years with so many family members and friends during that time is unbelievable. Billie loved her family and wanted them a round her. Billie like to travel and saw many parks from California to North Carolina, where there were family members to visit as well. In their later working years, John and Billie would spend their week-ends at Billie’s sister, Ivory’s farm in Molten, TX. They like working the garden, farm animals, and simple things they had both grown up knowing, even though it was hard work. They spend over a decade of their weekends, dedicated to farm work and spending time with her sister and brother-law. Later they built their retirement home on Lake Conroe, around John’s family, and retired with a large garden, fig and pecan trees, to occupy their time. They took gambling or fishing trips with family members to visit other family members or hunting trips to their ranch in Event, TX. near Billie’s school town of Pearl, TX. Billie’s life really began falling apart after John’s death, in June 2010, when all she had was her memories and she struggled with that. She had to be reminded that John and many others, so close to her, had departed and that saddened her deeply, but it would also bring back memories of camping trips, fishing, swimming, skiing, and being together. Billie lived a hard life and she didn’t seem to want any change in it with prosperity, but did enjoyed the benefits of hard work. Billie is survived by son Larry Puls and wife Natalie, of Willis, TX. Sister-in-law’s Marie Roscoe of Willis, TX. and Mary Puls of Willis, TX. Numerous nieces, nephews, other family members and a host of friends Viisitation will be on Wednesday, August 17, 2016 at Cashner Funeral Home from 5:00pm to 7:00pm. The funeral service will be Thursday, August 18, 2016, beginning at 12:30pm with interment to follow in Garden Park Cemetery.