News and Tribune

February 8, 2010

Dolores June Lier Bulleit


Dolores June Lier Bulleit , 99; of New Albany

A funeral Mass for Dolores June Lier Bulleit, 99, of New Albany, will be at 11 a.m. Wednesday, Feb. 10, at St. Paul’s Episcopal Church, New Albany, with entombment in Kraft-Graceland Memorial Park. She died peacefully at home Saturday, Feb. 6, 2010.

She was a graduate of the music school at the University of Minnesota and was a trained concert pianist. She had a passion for the theatre, opera and music. Dolores was also a member of the Silver Hills Alpha Club, Kentucky Opera Association and a life-long member of St. Paul’s Episcopal Church in New Albany. She was born June 14, 1910, to the late Emil Hjalmar and Rosalie Dahlheim Lier in Casselton, N.D.

Survivors include her grandchildren, Stephen Townsend and his wife, Sheila, of Mt. Eden, Ky., and Laura Townsend and her husband, Jeff Schneidtmiller, of Shelby County, Ky.; brother, Phillip Tyler Lier of Loveland, Colo.; great-grandchildren, Jason, Jessica, Amanda and Tiffany; and great-great-grandchild, Hunter.

She was preceded in death by her husband, Robert C. Bulleit, and her daughter, Cynthia Lier Townsend.

Visitation will be at Generations Funeral Home, New Albany, from 3 to 8 p.m. today, and at her church after 10 a.m. Wednesday.

The family requests that expressions of sympathy take the form of contributions to St. Paul’s Episcopal Church.

Condolences to the family may be made at generationsfuneralhome.com.