Bud was born  July 13, 1945 in Seattle, WA to Arvid and Patricia (Mitchell) Hullin. He passed away December 22, 2016 in Puyallup, WA. He is survived by his wife - Patricia; brother, David Gary Hullin; and numerous extended family members and friends.  Graveside Service to be held January 6, 2017 1:00 pm at Calvary Cemetery , 5212 70th St W, Tacoma, WA. Please share memories and condolences at the guest book above In lieu of flowers, memorials may be given to:  Boyer Children's Center 1850 Boyer Ave E Seattle WA 98112 Bud's life story from his own website: Bud’s full name is Arvid Louis(Bud) Hullin the third (3rd).  Both his grandfather (Arv) and his father (Swede) had the same name.  Bud’s father ancestors were from Sweden; while his wife, Patty’s father (Otto) ancestors came from Germany.  Both mothers were pure Irish!        Bud was the third child in his family after his brothers Dennis and David.  His wife, Patty, was also the third child in her family behind her brother, Allan, and her sister, Judy.  Bud had a high school sweetheart named Judy, and Dave’s first wife also has the name Judy and Dave’s second wife Judith Ann celebrated their 21st wedding anniversary on July 23, 2009.        Bud celebrated his 63rd birthday on Sunday, July 13, 2008!!!  He is now sixty-five.  Also, Bud and Patty were married on August 9, 1975 marking two years ago, 2008, as their 33rd year of married life!!!  They had been married now for 35 years!!!      Bud has dated three Joes in his life:  Jolene, Joann and of course, Patty Jo Lawrence, who later became his wife at age thirty (30)!!!  Also, Bud had a mother named Pat who was born on Saint Patrick Day, a sister-in-law (Dennis wife) named Patsy, and a wife named Patty.  So it was Pat, Patsy, and Patty.  All three had the name Patricia!!!      Bud has three known conditions: Cerebral Palsy since birth caused by the RH blood factor; and Patty, his wife, had the same thing happened to her. [See My Wonderful and Bless Life].  But Bud was also born blind, but within a year Bud could see. [See The Birth Years]; Spinal Stenosis (arthritis of the spine) developed since the early 90’s, which gives him pain from the neck down; and has Osteoporosis since the year 2005.  In addition to all this, Bud has undergone two delicate cervical (neck) surgeries.  On June 12, 1995, Bud had C4 removed and replaced with a bone from his hip and had all the arthritis removed from the Cervical.  While recovering from surgery, Bud had to wear a halo brace with six pins mounted to his head; three pins on either side, and were told to wear the brace for eight weeks while the thing healed.  This made it difficult to swallow foods and walking was totally dangerous.  Bud had to be in a rest home at the time where he had only nine days before his scheduled appointment to take the brace off when, while watching a Mariner game, the brace slipped off Bud’s head and he was left with six pins sticking him ever witch way.  After forty five minutes of scary moments, the brace was free from his head and Bud was rushed to Harborview Hospital where x-rays showed that he had the brace on long enough and went home, slept in his own bed that night.  Now that had to be God!  Then in June 1999 Bud began to lose some of his ability to walk and had to use a walker for support.  By the turn of the century rolled around, Bud could hardly walk at all and in late January of 2000, Bud was admitted for tests and was operated on February 2, this time to fuse all seven cervical in his neck and woke up to find out that he had to be in a power wheelchair and place on a catheter for the rest of his life.      Bud has three major hobbies and interests.  They are sports, oil painting and organ playing (starting at age 8).  Bud loves to watch football, baseball and hockey; and has participated in ice skating (age 16 through 25), water skiing and downhill snow skiing (’93 & ’94).  Also, Patty has participated in an amazing four track snow skiing using a walker for her balance of which Bud and Patty received training at Snoqualmie Pass, Washington skiing for Ski-for-all, (now called Outdoors-for-all) and won a trip to Winter Park, Colorado; the home of the National Center for Disabled Skier after participating in fund-raising contests, both in ‘93 and ’94; where they have pictures and video proof of them skiing there at Winter Park in ‘94.  On the very next morning after the video was taken, which happens to be Easter Sunday, Bud took two ski lifts to a high mountain looking over the Continental divide from one end to the other, quite an awesome sight to behold!  It was petty scary coming down, but truly one of our favorite highlights of their lives together.      Two other travel notes worth mentioning, April 197l, before his marriage to Patty, Bud took a historical trip to Hedgesville, West Virginia  where his brother Dave and his first wife, Judy were pasturing three local churches on Sunday while Dave attended Westley Seminary in Washington DC from September 1968 to June 1973.  Bud received rides into Washington with Dave and went all over the place including Washington Monument, Smithsonian Institute, and Arlington National Cemetery.  On the last Saturday before departure, Dave drove Bud up to Gettysburg, Pennsylvania and went through their museum of the civil war.  It was an awesome place to visit.      On December 18, 1972, Bud took off on a trip of a life time to the Holy Land with the Billy Graham Evangelistic Association with Roy Gusterson as tour leader and Billy Graham’s son; Franklin Graham and Bruce McConner were also on the trip as tour chaperones.  So Bud cot a plane to New York’s JFK International to meet up with the tour and boarded our flight on Swizz Air to Zürich, Switzerland which took all night arriving at ten in the morning.  Bud’s flight was scheduled to leave Zurich at noon, but delayed until two thirty in the afternoon to Lod Airport near Tel Aviv and then a long bus ride to the hotel.  Got up the next morning and headed north to Haifa, stopping at an ancient amphitheater along the way.  Had lunch and headed eastward towards the beautiful Sea of Galilee, bedded down for the night at a place near Tiberias.  Gets up the next morning and headed to the south end of the Sea of Galilee, and took a boat ride on it to the ancient city of Capenmaum, singing songs of worship along the way and Roy gave us the perfect message for the time.  Getting off the boat in Capenmaum, Bud’s heart melted as we saw some awesome ancient ruins where Peter, James and John once lived and to see The White Synagogue was quit an awesome sight to behold!  It was here where Bud lost track of the tour because the tour disserted him. Bud thank the tour took a hike up the hill where Jesus preach his sermon on the mount, but Bud stay behind and had a nice long chat with our leader, Roy, already in his late 70’s.  Also Bud can’t recall what happened after that. The next morning came along and we were off to Jerusalem, and stopped for lunch and after lunch Bud went shopping for some souvenirs to take back home with him.  When he boarded the bus, Bud since something was missing. So Bud, in a panic mode, yelled out as load as he could,  “My passport is missing; my passport is missing!”        After their marriage Bud and Patty has traveled to the Hawaiian Islands ten (10) times during their marriage and made their base in Honolulu.  On four of those trips they visited Kauai, Maui, Molokai and the Big Island of Hawaii.  Then Bud’s parents had the awesome privilege of house sitting a house on Coco Head, the next huge hump on the other side of Diamond Head.  Talk about living in luxury, this place had it all.  You could see Diamond Head Crater, The Push Bowl, even Downtown Honolulu and beyond.  The house itself had marble floors and woodworks, nice size living room, a huge yard with luscious Hawaiian shrubberies, palm trees that surround the place and of cores, a medium sized swimming pool to top it off.   They stayed with Bud’s parents only twice and on their last trip they took a boat that went around throughout the major islands.  On the last night of their trip they saw the huge amount of lava flowing down from Kilauea Crater to the beach below.  It looked like a river of fire.  It was truly one of the most memorable awesome moments of their lives together.      Bud graduated from Cascade High School in Everett, Washington in June 1966, where he took genera courses, four semesters of bookkeeping; two semesters of typing; and was football manger all three years and was in the lettermen club in his senior year.       After high school Bud went to three different schools to further his education. He started out by going to work for two weeks in the University of Washington Hospital, where he worked without pay to see if he had enough skills to hold a job under the state Department of Vocational Rehabilitation (DVR).  It was determined at the time that Bud needed a higher level of education and was sent to Northwestern School of Business in Lynnwood, Washington; January 1967 to May 1968, where he studied accounting, taxes & office machinery and was all paid for by DVR.  It was in this time frame that Bud went before the State Broad of Directors and passed a state test for an Accounting Clerk.      Then it was time for Bud to seriously start looking for work.  It was hard to get even an interview that Bud took time to fill applications, and when he did, something would always go wrong.   Bud had his first opportunity to show what he could do when he went to work for H & R Block as a math checker.  Unfortunately he worked there three nights before Bud found out that he was too slow for the job.  It was frustrating to no end.     It was here where Bud wound up being a victim of the most bizarre circumstances in his entire life when he worked for a company dealing with convalescent homes industries place in Seattle, where he worked for a week before he was told to go back to school and get faster on the 10-key adding machine and he would be retired again.  Bud then transferred to Peterson Business College in downtown Seattle, June 1969 to October 1969, where he took a 10-key speed course & cost accounting. Then Bud went back to work for the same employer and was doing quite well with handling the 10-key, doubling his speed.  He worked only for one week when the president of the company walked in the door and started yelling at his boss saying, ‘You get that crazy disabled guy out of here.  I don’t need a handicapped man in my corporation.  And if that man isn’t out of here by the end of the day, all of you are fired!’  So that the way it went.  Bud wasn’t sure if those were the correct words used in the conversation, but we all could hear the uproar in the office.  Bud left the place pretty discouraged over the whole episode, but he got over it and never looked back.       In 1986, Bud wanted to know more about the fascinating mind of Computers.  So he took a course in Beginning of Computers at South Seattle Community College at the South-West Branch June 1986 to August 1986.  Sounds simple, doesn’t it?    Well, it turned out to be the hardest course Bud had in his life.  What made it difficult was that Bud was also working at the time.       Bud has worked in three major places during his working career.       He worked for Work Opp ortunities, Inc. in Lynnwood, Washington, June 1963 to September 1968, a sheltered workshop for the disabled.  Assembled electronic parts, served as an assisted supervisor, and office clerical.         He worked for Emerson GM Diesel, Inc. in Seattle, October 1969 to October 1989, a 20 year span.  The first two years Bud served as an inventory clerk, where he used his accounting and 10-key skills, putting in part numbers & quantities, and balancing figures for accuracy.  The 10-key ran off a tape for a remote computer that gave us a report on what we had on stock.  Then Bud gets involved in running office equipment as their Office Machines Specialist.  He ran a decollater (separated carbons & computer printouts), form buster (invoices & statements), sorted invoices by company names, folded invoices, stuff them in envelops, & mailed all company mail by weighing each package using a scale, & ran stamps on all letters & packages on a postage meter on a daily basis, twix & telex (linked up to a Tel-Mi system to Detroit Diesel, where he reported the latest parts backed up at the factory for the parts department, ran engine performance reports & reported monthly engine sales for the sales department), made prints of drawing using a blue print machine for the engineering department, copiers, and IBM System 3, a HP 3000 & a Franklin 8000 personal computers.  He learned to execute programs, run back-ups, responded to system proms, retrieved printer printout (up to 6 part papers) invoices, statements, lists, etc, on two printers. He also did some filing and often took the Tel-Mi work home with him, linking up to the system at home on his personal computer to save him time, money and speed.  In May 1989, the company changed hands to Pacific Diesel, Inc, and five month later Bud flatly ran out of work when the company made their on-line connections with their corporate office in Portland.      In April 1990, Bud became involved in a rare opportunity to serve in a high class, downtown Seattle insurance company called the Petitt-Morry Insurance Brokers, working for their accounting department as an accounting clerk and office clerical,  picking up lock boxes from the post office on the way to work, entered paid premiums via computer, retrieve computer printout from the printer, sorted printout of paid premiums & other materials by sitting arrangements, distributed printout throughout the company to 160 employees on three floors, took deposits to two banks, ran errands, and filed paid premiums & canceled checks on a daily basis.  Then in April 1994, the company changed hands to Acordia Northwest.  Bud was forced to retire in November, 1995 due to his Spinal Stenosis and other factors.  Then in May 2001, Acordia underwent another transaction that changed the name for the third time to Wells Fargo Insurance Services.      Total up the number of years Bud has worked during his working career and you would come up with thirty years!!!      There is just one sad note to all this, Bud’s brother Dennis died in September, 1974 from a Cerebral Hemorrhage.  Patty’s father, Otto Ruben Lawrence, died in September 1996, of a melanoma that went straight to the brain.  Patty’s brother, Allan Eugene Lawrence, died in October 2003, of a brain tumor.  All three deaths were brain related.   Conclusion        You were brought with a price, making you a peculiar person.  Jesus Christ has already provided a way for your salvation by dying on the cross in your place for the remission of all your sins for the rest of your entire life.  God has inspired you for life, but he let you comprehend what your life should become. Encouragement must come from the heart within you.  So, get hold of yourself and say, I can, I can, I can!!!                    _____________________                    _____________________                    _____________________   I can do all things through Christ which strengtheneth me! Philippians 4:13    And remember, Love never fails.  Therefore Love Conquers All!!!