Reverend Major
Howard Elwood Bull


January 24, 1916 - January 16, 2001



From the Oakland Tribune, Tuesday, April 6, 1948. The Bull Brothers with S. M. Martin, Cmdr., Key System Post. No. 703.

  • Left to Right:
  • Maj. Howard E. Bull, USA (Ret)
  • William E. Bull, PlSgt, USMC, WIA, Med Survey
  • Harry M. Bull, Pvt. USA
  • Keith R. Bull, Sgt. USA, WIA Med. Discharge
  • Robert E. Bull, Cpl. USA, Discharge. All Honorable.

May 16, 1993: Howard Bull and Walter Boring


Doris Revheim & Howard Bull get married


November 1962


Reverend Major Bull was born in Oakland, California and resided in Capitola.

He was a Congregational minister who married more than 500 couples. He retired in 1983. He was a member of the National Association of Congregational Christian Churches and the Shriners. He was a rose gardener and established the Howard E. Bull Rose Garden in the Community Church of Monterey Peninsula.

He served at Churches in Marne , Saranac, and Birmingham, Michigan; Beloit, Wisconsin; Evanston, Illinois; Carmel and Soquel, California.

He is survived by daughters Marjorie Witt of Lafayette and Marilyn Bull of Piedmont; son Donald Bull of Wirtz, Va.; sisters Vivianne Hayman of Walnut Creek, Patricia Jacob of Fremont and Anita Moe of Grass Valley; brothers Mac Bull of Lafayette and Keith Bull of Grass Valley; six grandchildren and four great-grandchildren.

Son Harvey Bull died in 1983 and his wife, Doris Revheim Bull, died in 1973.


Reverend Major Howard E. Bull

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Pilgrim Parish News 1966


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