Curtis Michael Bohlin's Obituary
Curtis Michael Bohlin, 44, went home to be with his Lord on July 7, 2024. He was born March 21, 1980. His 26-year-long battle with suicidal depression ended and he is now free of all the pain and hardship he endured through much of his life. Curtis is survived by his father Ray, his mother Sue, his brother Kevin, and his sister-in-love Lauren, in addition to numerous aunts, uncles, and cousins.
He played soccer through most of his early life, attending Garland High School and some college at John Brown University. He served in the Air Force from 2003 to 2007 where he serviced and maintained the navigation systems on the C5 planes. He was also responsible for raising the accuracy and quality of the work of his entire squadron before his honorable discharge as a Senior Airman.
After his time in the military, he earned several certifications in computer systems and information technology, and was a gifted systems analyst and troubleshooter. He was an amazing teacher in explaining things in ways people could understand, but being an introvert, he didn’t want to teach.
He married Lori Rodke while in the Air Force but was divorced shortly after leaving the service. He loved fantasy novels and read most of his voluminous collection at least ten times through. He was a fast reader, racing through a thousand pages an hour.
As loss consumed more and more of Curt’s life, he returned to live with his parents in 2008. He had lost several jobs and his home. His parents greatly appreciated his assistance with their pain and weakness, followed by recovery, of their six orthopedic surgeries. Part of that assistance took the form of Curt developing skills in cooking, with his mother serving as his “Sue chef.” For years he tweaked family recipes, and he literally left his mark in handwritten notes scattered throughout our recipe notebooks. He was the family “IT genius,” also helping others with their computer problems from time to time.
Eventually he was unable to work because of severe social anxiety and depression. The hearing loss he sustained while working on the Air Force flight line became more severe in these last few years. Even with a hearing aid, he lost the ability to enjoy his music, at one point making a Facebook post titled “The Day the Music Died.” His hearing loss cost him the one way he connected with other people, through role-playing video games on his computer, because he could not hear commands and suggestions from his team leaders. He was devastated to be cut off from a sense of belonging and purpose. His loss of hearing and loss of gaming apparently was too great a loss he couldn’t handle when he decided to take his life.
Because Curt put his trust in Jesus Christ as a young boy, he entered God’s forever family, and his family is fully confident that he is where he has longed to be for decades, safe and whole and happy in heaven with Jesus. He will be greatly missed but we are all gladdened to know he is out of his emotional pain and rejoicing with his sister, Rebecca, whom he has been looking forward to meeting since her eight days of life in 1976.
Curt’s life will be honored and celebrated at a memorial service on July 18 at 1:00 p.m. at CityBridge Community Church, 6400 K Avenue, Plano Texas, with a reception to follow—for which his brother Kevin, owner of Saint Frank Coffee in San Francisco, will be brewing his coffee.
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