Evelyn Irene (Thompson) Bullock, 75, passed away Saturday as the result of an automobile-train accident in rural Fort Branch. (Note: See newspaper article below.)

She was born on Oct, 18, 1936 in Sneedsville, Tenn., the daughter of Coba Russell and Wilma Marie (Hobbs) Thompson.

Evelyn was a housewife.

Survivors include daughters, Tena Fehrenbacher, Lisa Ann Beal, Christine Ewers, Sheila Marie Fogle; 13 grandchildren; several great-grandchildren; sisters, Nannette Torkelson, Shirley Wilson, Peggy McClellan; and several nieces and nephews.

She was preceded in death by her parents; husband, James Robert Bullock; son, Jim Bullock; daughter, Jacqueline Ballard; sister, Carolyn Zander; and brother, Homer Thompson.

Graveside services will be at 10 a.m. Friday, Nov. 4, 2011 at Owensville Cemetery with Bart Newton officiating.

Family and friends are asked to meet at the cemetery. Holders Funeral Home in Owensville is handling the arrangements.

Fort Branch, Ind.

Ind. woman dead from car-train crash.

A coroner says a Southwestern Indiana motorist killed at a Gibson County railroad crossing might not have realized a train was approaching.

Gibson County Coroner Barrett Doyle said 75-year-old Evelyn Bullock of Fort Branch died at the scene of the collision with a CSX freight train Saturday morning.

Doyle told the Princeton Daily Clairon for a report Sunday that Bullock probably did not realize a train was approaching because another train was stopped on another set of tracks at the crossing.

The crossing has only a stop sign and no lights, bells or crossing arms.

The crossing is near the victim’s home in Ft. Branch, about 20 miles north of Evansville.

Source: Evansville Courier & Press, Monday, October 31, 2011, p. 9A.