Colleen Mullis Hines' Obituary
HINES, COLLEEN MULLIS, 69, a registered nurse and public health administrator in Dallas for almost 50 years, died Saturday at her home. She was 69. Funeral will be Wednesday, 3 p.m., in Ellis Chapel at Park Cities Baptist Church, with Dr. Jerry Carlisle officiating. Her family will receive friends Tuesday from 6-8 p.m. at Restland Funeral Home. For 10 years, Mrs. Hines had been health program coordinator for Region 10 Education Service Center, a state grouping of nine counties in northeast Texas covering 80 public school districts and 44 public charter schools, with more than 775,000 students in the 2012-13 school year. For the previous almost 40 years, Mrs. Hines had been a nursing administrator and nursing specialist in difficult pregnancies at Parkland Memorial Hospital, where she was named employee of the year in 1989. She was certified in thanatology, or death science, and also as a palliative care specialist and diabetes educator. She held bachelor and master’s degrees in nursing from Texas Woman’s University, where as an undergraduate she was a member of Senior Honor Women and the Delphi Society. Her thesis was on diabetes and complications in pregnancy. She was a member of Sigma Theta Tau International, a nursing honor society. Mrs. Hines was born in Wichita Falls to David W. Mullis, a North Carolina native, and Jo Wilma Clary, a member of an old Montague County, Texas, family. She grew up in North Carolina and Texas. She was preceded in death by her parents and grandparents, Newt and Pearl Phipps Clary of Nocona and Wiley A. and Mary Jane Barker Mullis of North Carolina. She was married in 1969 to Thomas E. Hines, a member of a pioneer Dallas County family and political activist in North Dallas, who survives her. She was a member of Park Cities Baptist and was part of a core group from that church that helped to found Valley Ranch Baptist Church at Coppell in the 1980s. Other survivors include a brother, Dr. David Walter Mullis Jr., and sister-in-law, Dr. Rebecca Mullis, of Good Hope, Georgia; nieces Megan Mullis Green of Good Hope, Georgia, and Meredith McNeil Mullis Rutland of Tifton, Georgia; brother-in-law Cragg Hines of Arlington, Va. Pallbearers will be Gerry C. Bailey, William E. Dance, Hilton Hemphill, Will L. Wilkins, John D. Spratlin and Donald D. Tucker. Memorials may be made to Texas Nurses Association, District 4, P.O. Box 764468, Dallas, Texas, 75376.
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