Jack Dee Bishop

Jack Bishop Obituary Jack Dee Bishop was born on June 19, 1928, to Gene and Dee Bishop in Seneca, NM. He was the oldest and only boy of 3 siblings. After graduating from Springer High School in New Mexico he enlisted into the Navy and served from October 20, 1947-October 23, 1951, as a mechanic during the Korean War. Jack was always great at anything related to mechanics or repairing things. On December 23, 1950, he married his high school sweetheart, Irene Robison. They had a long, happy marriage together for nearly 60 years. 

They had two sons, Keith and Alan. Shortly after being discharged from the navy, they moved to Lamar, Colorado where he served as a mechanic for Ford. In 1963, after the Jack’s father’s passing the family relocated to Lindrith, New Mexico to help run the family ranch and lived there for 50 years putting down deep roots of friendship and community. Jack worked as a field hand all the way to being the supervisor for El Paso Natural Gas Co. while there. Jack was always happy to lend a hand repairing something, sit at someone’s sick bed, or in general do whatever a person needed help doing, all with a smile and definitely a few jokes or teasing along the way. Joy and laughter followed Jack wherever he went and he was sure to make fast friends with anyone he met and was a loyal friend to all. 

Jack passed quietly on November 9, 2024 and was preceded in death by his beloved wife, Irene Bishop, his parents Gene and Dee Bishop, his sister Mary Anne Jeffers. Memorial Service is November 16, 2024 at Three Rivers Estates in Farmington, NM 10:00 am. 

Jack is survived by his sister Elizabeth Hayes; two sons and daughters in law, Keith and Karen Bishop, and Alan and Lori Bishop; four grandkids and their spouses: Heather and Peter Meyer, April and Pat Ramsey, Scott and Melissa Bishop, Jack and Courtney Bishop, and 12 great-grandkids: Jonathan, Daniel, Edmund, Irene, and James Meyer, Sean and Lily Ramsey, David, Daniel, Elizabeth, and Emily Bishop, and Jonas Bishop.