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From: "Peter McCrae" <>
Subject: [W-OBITS] BING: Mary Blanche Bing 2003
Date: Tue, 24 Feb 2009 23:41:07 -0000


Mary Blanche Bing
cantorjoeocho (View posts) Posted: 14 Jul 2004 7:27PM GMT

Classification: Obituary
Surnames: Bing

Mary Blanche Bing

(08/01/2003) Mary Blanche Bing, 88, passed away on Tuesday, July 29, 2003.
She was born September 20, 1914, in Waco, Texas to Mary Elrena and Thomas
Elmer Hobbs. She also had a brother, Thomas Stuart Hobbs. Mary graduated
from Waco High School and then attended Texas Woman's College (now Texas
Wesleyan College) in Fort Worth for one year after which she transferred to
Baylor University, graduating in 1935 with a teaching degree (BAA.). She
taught third grade in the Lorena, Texas, elementary school system for three
years. In the intervening summers she did some graduate work at the
University of Texas where she met her husband, R.H. Bing. They married in
the summer of 1938 and moved to Palestine, Texas. The Bings moved to Austin
in 1942 where her husband received his Ph.D. in mathematics and taught the
V-12 navy boys who were in school during war time. In 1947 Mary and R.H.
moved to Madison, Wisconsin, where R.H. was a professor at the University of
Wisconsin for 26 years. The Bings also lived briefly in Charlottesville,
Virginia, and Princeton, New Jersey. They traveled extensively, both in the
U.S. and Europe, where Dr. Bing, an internationally known mathematician,
attended conferences or gave talks. Mary has been active in the women's
groups at the University Presbyterian Church in Austin, Texas. She served as
deacon, elder, and clerk of session in Westminster Presbyterian Church in
Wisconsin. She also volunteered for 20 years at Brackenridge Hospital; and
was a member of the Municipal Art Guild; the Highland Park Garden Club;
University Faculty Wives; and Faculty Wives Social Club - Chancellors
Council. And, she was a member of the Retired Faculty & Staff U.T. Club.
Mary's blessings were many - she loved God, family, and church. She looked
forward to family get-togethers, especially the many cruises they took
together. Mary is survived by four children, Robert H. Bing and his wife,
Carol, of Austin, Texas, Susan Hannah and her husband, Steve, of Mequon,
Wisconsin, Gay Hundley and her husband, Tim, of Princeton, New Jersey, Mary
Pat Bing of Racine, Wisconsin and six grandchildren and two great
grandchildren. Pallbearers will be grandsons Stuart, Brendan, Michael and
also Mills Menke, John and Rob Scholl. The family will receive friends from
6:00 to 8:00 p.m. on Saturday, August 2, 2003, at Weed-Corley-Fish Funeral
Home, 3125 N. Lamar. Services will be held at 3:00 p.m. on Sunday, August 3,
2003, at University Presbyterian Church, 2203 San Antonio. Interment will
follow in the Cook-Walden/Capital Parks Cemetery. Arrangements by
Weed-Corley- Fish Funeral Home, 3125 N. Lamar, Austin, TX 78705 (512)
452-8811. You may view memorials online at www.wcfish.com


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