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Mary Josephine
(Jo) Bobillot, loving wife, mother, grandmother, and great-grandmother, passed on to our lord on December 14, 2021.

Mary was born
February 13, 1935 in Pomona to Luella and Percy Blackwell. She
had six sisters and one brother. The family eventually moved to
Oregon City where Mary attended school. Mary met the love of her
life, Antone (Tony) Bobillot, while attending Oregon City High School
as a sophomore in 1951. Tony was a fun and exciting young man and
would cruise by her house on his motorcycle trying to get her
attention, which he did. They were married October 20, 1951.

Tony
was soon drafted into the Army and was sent to boot camp stationed at
Fort Ord. Mary and her mother moved to Fort Ord area to be with
Tony, where they stayed on until Tony was honorably discharged due to
a foot injury. Mary and Tony moved back to Oregon and started their
life together. One day Tony had a bad day when he wrecked his plane
and motorcycle on the same day.

Mary and Tony then decided to move
to Humboldt County. With a job lined up working in the timber
industry, they packed up a borrowed cattle truck with their
belongings and their baby girl, Antoinette. They lived in Arcata for
a short time then moved to Fieldbrook, where they lived for many
years. Mary had three additional children — Alan, David and Andy.

Mary
was a devoted homemaker making many friends in the little town. Mary
was very active in Fieldbrook Grange, community church and the PTA.
Mary took a job at Fieldbrook School working as a teacher’s aide
and eventually became the school secretary where she helped many
teachers and kids along the way. Mary kept the family home going and
the Bobillot’s house was always the meeting place for many kids and
friends over the years. There was always extra food around for
anyone who needed a meal.

In the early days of living in Fieldbrook,
Mary and Tony maintained the Volunteer Fire Department’s fire trucks
in their garage until a new Fire Department was built next to the
Fieldbrook store.

Mary and Tony always had a big garden and
beautiful flower beds. Gardening together was a great joy in their
life.

Mary’s love of her life, Tony, passed away in 1981. Mary
retired from Fieldbrook School after 30 years and moved to Arcata, where she lived until 2018. Mary became very active in her
community. Working with the county supervisors, she spearheaded the
successful PTA Campaign to rid the Manila area of abandoned vehicles
littering vacant lots, roadsides and riverbanks and also a tepee
burner from an abandoned mill. In total, Mary and her team removed
more than 350 car bodies. The site is now home to Manila Park.

Mary
continued her work with the community. She was the treasurer and
exhibit chairwoman for Friends of the Arcata Marsh. Mary loved
painting scenic views and birds at the marsh where you could find her
on sunny days. Some of her paintings have been featured in many art
galleries in the Humboldt area. Mary absolutely loved gardening.
People in the neighborhood would come by to see her garden and pick
up a potted plant. Mary loved the water and took up scuba diving
with her oldest son at the age of 52.

She also got involved with the
Kinetic Sculpture races. Her good friend, Hobart Brown, built the
Calistoga Kinetic Delivery Truck with which Mary and her team
completed the race in 1990.

Mary was a proud member of the Scottish
Heritage Association and loved attending their dinners and events.
Mary enjoyed dancing and having parties. Halloween was one of her
favorite holidays and she would always have a pre-party at her house
to kick of the evening events.

Mary moved from Arcata to live next
to her oldest son Alan and his wife Shawna in the summer of 2018.
She joined the Eureka Elks Emblem Club and was also a member of
Eastern Star at the Arcata Masonic Lodge. Mary often danced the
night away at the Eureka Elks Lodge with family and friends. Mary
kept up her love for gardening at her new home in Eureka, you could
find her in her garden every sunny day.

Mary loved her family and
would have dinner parties whenever she could. She loved having her
great grandchildren over to play and have fun. Mary lived a full and
happy life surrounded by many friends and her large family.

Mary
passed away of natural causes surrounded by her loving family on
December 14, 2021.

Mary is survived
by her children, Antoinette Pacheco of Willow Creek, Alan Bobillot
(Shawna) of Eureka, David Bobillot (Jodi) of Ogden, Utah, and Andy
Bobillot (Shannon) of Riddle, Oregon; her grandchildren, Jonelle
Caldwell, Nicki Wilson, David Bobillot, Nicole Pacheco, Brad Wilson,
Michael Bobillot, Natalie Pacheco, Stefon Mendez, Alex Bobillot, and
Daniel Bobillot, Nick Harless, Hillarie Beyer, Travis Harless and
great-grandchildren, Jenicee, Allyana, Jayden, Nettle, Malia,
Preston, Maiah, Willow, Braeden, Hudson, Willow, Acacia, Adam,
Talia, Marlowe and Cole as well as many, many other loving family
members and friends.

A celebration of
life will be held at the Eureka Elks Lodge on April 30, 2022 at
1 p.m.

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