ROSIE SULLIVAN Funeral services for Ms. Rosie Garrison Sullivan, 58, will be held Friday, July 2, at 10:00a.m. at First Baptist Church in Teague. Rev. Mark Munson will officiate. Interment will follow the services at Cotton Gin Cemetery.

Visitation was Thursday with the family present from 6:00p.m. until 8:00p.m. at the funeral home.

Ms. Sullivan passed away on Sunday, June 27, at her residence in Teague. She was born to Mickey and Rosa Deck in Germany on February 10, 1952 and became a permanent resident of Teague in 1978. Ms. Sullivan was the family caretaker and most recently spent time caring for her mother. She loved to garden and grow flowers and truly had a green thumb. She was a Catholic and attended St. Mary's Catholic Church in Teague, having taught Cataclysm Class there in the past. She truly never met a stranger and had an open door to anyone in need. Ms. Sullivan loved her children and grandchildren and the many others that knew her as "mom" or "grandma".

She is survived by one son, Doyle Van Winkle and wife Amy of Teague; three daughters, Peggy Sullivan and husband Ken of Lake Limestone, Michelle Cochran and husband Wes of Cotton Gin, and Laura Bolt and husband Ryan of Waco; seven grandchildren, Beatrice Nevill of Corpus Christi, Lauren Lanier of Lake Limestone, Will Van Winkle of Teague, Bailee Day and Hailee Cochran both of Cotton Gin, Brooke Van Winkle of Teague, Wesley Cochran of Cotton Gin, and others who called her grandma; her mother, Rosa Conkling and husband Don of Copperas Cove; one brother, Mickey Deck and wife Cheryl of Copperas Cove; three sisters, Violet Odom and husband R. D. of Seguin, Irene Cummins and husband Mike of Caldwell, and JoAnne Stewart and husband Bob of Lampasas; numerous nieces, nephews, other relatives and a host of friends.

Ms. Sullivan was preceded in death by her father, Woodrow Wilson Deck, Sr.

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