Curtis Milton Bundick, age 54, passed away August 20, 2024 in the Brownwood Hospital where he was born on February 28, 1970 to a happy young couple, Milton and Barbara (Fletcher) Bundick. He was a graduate of Blanket High School. Visitation will be held on Sunday, August 25th from 4 to 6pm at Heartland Funeral Home. Graveside services will be held at Rock Church Cemetery, north of Blanket, on Monday, August 26th at 10am. Heartland Funeral Home will be in charge of the services with Pastor Jordan Villanueva, pastor at First Baptist Church, leading in this celebration of Curtis’s life.
He and his wife, Libby, became parents to Candace Morgan Bundick, Caley Rae Bundick, and Dylan Garrett Bundick. He was proud of his daughters for pursuing their education and making a good life for themselves. He and Dylan just loved having their Blue Bell ice cream every chance they had.
With the untimely death of his mother when he was four, he and sister, Mary, eventually ended up living with grandparents, Claude and Alda Bundick, at Blanket. Curtis accepted Jesus as his Savior and was baptized at Blanket First Baptist Church. In later years he would rise early to spend time with the Lord and loved to watch online services preached by his cousin in South Texas.
They say it takes a village to raise a child and this was certainly true with Curtis. Many special friends took him in and loved him as their own. Some of these special people were Tressa Finigan and family, Tinker James family, Ray Morales family, and Lanita Butler and family. If given the chance, ask Carroll Butler about that two fish story he loves to share.
Curtis loved to visit with friends, fish, hunt, watch the Texas Rangers, and go to Nascar races. One of his friends at the apartments where he lived said life would not be the same without those evenings on Curtis’s porch. He kept in touch with so many friends and family both on the phone and Facebook. He also loved to garden and would have tomato plants on his porch at the apartment.
Curtis is survived by his forever friends: sisters, Mary (Gary) Butka of Brownwood and Becky Batch of Hamilton, his daughters, Candace of Buenos Aires, and Caley of Plains, TX, his son, Dylan of Early, TX, his uncles and aunts, Eddie and Sharron Bundick and Travis and Bobbie Bundick of Blanket, Faye Bassham of Tyler, Herbie and Ima Martin of Early, several nieces and a nephew, and many, many cousins too numerous to name, and his many friends.
He was preceded in death by his parents, his sister, baby Cathy, his grandparents, many aunts and uncles, a brother-in-law, and some of his cousins.
Memorials in Curtis’s name may be given to the Rock Church Cemetery Association in care of Jule Richmond, Blanket or to the Rackin’ Up Dreams Outdoors Organization who gave Curtis the thrill of a lifetime when they allowed Dylan that dream in a deer hunt.