Barbara Bock Memorial
The family is asking for donations to a place which helped Barbara in recent history :
1) Grace Lutheran Church Alzheimer’s Daycare Building Fund
772-871-6599
www.GraceLutheranPSL.com/Give
If you would like to give to Grace’s new Alzheimer’s daycare, just indicate “ALZ Daycare” .
Barbara Bateman Bock
Barbara Elizabeth Bateman was born on June 1, 1938 at St. Luke's Hospital in Fountain Hill (Bethlehem), PA to Wesley Eugene Bateman and Mary Sims Bateman who lived at 714 Dellwood St Bethlehem, PA.
She had two much older brothers: Rolan (27) & Glenn (24) and a sister Elsie (21).
Her Mother died in 1953 when Barbara was only 16.
She Graduated from Liberty High School in Bethlehem, PA in 1956.
She Graduated from the Allentown School of Cosmotoligy in 1958
Her first employment was Shampoo Girl at the Elsie Y Schupp Beauty Shop in Bethlehem
She served as Secretary of the Lehigh Valley Hairdressers Association.
She married Edward E Bock on September 8, 1962 and the couple resided at her father's house at 724 Dellwood St in Bethlehem because he had a heart attack right after their wedding until his death in 1964 when they bought the house from his Estate.
She gave birth to a daughter Holly Elizabeth Bock on January 24, 1964.
They moved to 1221 Markley St in Norristown, PA in June of 1965 due to a change in employment for Ed.
During her years in Norristown she specialized in Manicuring & Pedicuring and worked for a Beauty Shop in Devon, PA; then at Jean-Madeline at the Plymouth Meeting Mall until the mall burned down.
After the Mall burned Barbara started working for the Norristown Police Dept as a School Crossing Guide.
They started doing Foster Care and fostered about 20 different children (from infant to 16 years old) some for a few days and others for up to 4 years.
She was recruited as a Mary Kay Beauty Consultant and went on to be a National Queen of Sales 3 times, National Queen of Recruiting once and a Mary Kay Unit Sales Director. She also won 3 diamond rings and a Mary Kay Car.
In 1985 they moved to 1469 Heather Place in Upper Pottsgrove Township outside Pattstown, PA
In 1993 they moved to 575 SE Euclid Lane in Port Saint Lucie, FL for warmer weather and less expensive living.
She worked as a Store Demonstrator and then in the Bakery at the Publix Store in Saint Lucie West before retiring in 1990. She continued as a Mary Kay Beauty Consultant until 2001.
She started to develop signs of dementia around 2008 after the death of her daughter Holly from Brain Cancer.
She was officially diagnosed with Alzheimer's Disease in 2012.
She started attending daycare at the Alzheimer's Community Care Center at Saint Andrew Lutheran Church, Port St Lucie, FL in February 2018 and has a Caregiver from ComForCare Senior Services four evenings a week to bathe her before bed.
She became elegible for Medicaid in March of 2019.
She has always been faithful in Worship and service to the various Churches she has belongd to through her lifetime. She was in the Junior Choir at Christ UCC Church in Bethlehem as a child. After marriage at that Church she belonged to Salem Lutheran Church in Bethlehem, PA; Grace Lutheran Church in Norristown,PA where she was in the Choir; Trinity UCC Church in Norristown, PA where she was Girl Scout Leader for 12 years; Grace Lutheran Church in Pottstown, PA; Saint Andrew Lutheran Church in Port St Lucie, FL; Living Waters Lutheran Mission Church in Port St Lucie, FL and now Grace Lutheran Church in Port St Lucie, FL.