Joseph Edward Bullock dies at age 86
Member of House of Delegates representing East Baltimore

By Jacques Kelly, The Baltimore Sun

4:16 PM EDT, August 4, 2010

Joseph Edward Bullock, a former member of the Maryland House of Delegates and a retired Baltimore Public Works official, died of a stroke July 27 at FutureCare Cherrywood in Reisterstown. He was 86 and lived in Pikesville.

Born in Baltimore and raised in Highlandtown, he attended St. Elizabeth of Hungary Parochial School and was a 1941 Patterson Park High School graduate. He served in the Navy as an engineer in the Pacific during World War II. Family members said he helped construct air bases.

After the war, he became paymaster at the John McShane Construction Co. He then joined the Baltimore City Department of Public Works and was a superintendent of street repairs at the Falls Road Yard.

Mr. Bullock, a Democrat, represented East Baltimore in the Maryland House of Delegates from 1959 until 1970. He was a member of the Ways and Means Committee. He belonged to the Cornwall and United Democratic clubs.

In retirement, he followed thoroughbred racing at Pimlico Race Course.

Services will be held at 11:30 a.m. Aug. 13 at Baltimore National Cemetery, 3445 Frederick Road.

Survivors include his wife of nearly 30 years, the former Yvonne Boudreaux Wedekind; a daughter, Barbara Ann Johnson of Finksburg; two stepsons, Lawrence Wedekind of Columbia, S.C., and John Wedekind of Ely, Cambridgeshire in England; and four grandchildren.

His marriage to Catherine Jean Bradley ended in divorce. One son, John G. Bullock, died in 1987, and another, Joseph E. Bullock Jr., died in 1997.

jacques.kelly@baltsun.com

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