Melisse Buland's Obituary
Melisse was a student at Trinity
University in San Antonio and was working as an NRI-GIS data
analyst on contract with the USDA-NRCS in Fort Worth. She was a
2003 Top 5% graduate of Temple High School in Temple, Texas.
She previously attended Travis Middle School and Thornton
Elementary School in Temple, Washington Elementary School in
Huron, South Dakota, and Central Elementary School in
Morgantown, West Virginia. An exceptionally gifted athlete, she
lettered in soccer, cross country, track, and tennis during high
school. Soccer was a passion throughout her life, and she
played on school and select teams from age four until she joined
the nationally top-ranked women’s soccer team at Trinity.
Melisse was loved by
all for her sharp and insatiably curious mind, disarming wit,
and terrific sense of humor. She was a fun-loving, risk-taking
“outdoor girl,” and the only one in her family who could
juggle. She devoured books, movies, philosophy, and music,
taught herself how to play guitar, rode motorcycles, and was a
bit of a Sudoku prodigy. An accomplished photographer,
Melisse’s work was inspiring to others with bipolar disorder.
Her friends and family
will miss her laughter, her pranks, her smile, her kind and
loving spirit, and everything she was and did that was so
uniquely Melisse.
She is survived by her
parents, David and Tiew-Eng Buland of Crowley, Texas, her
brother Alton and sister Khim, her grandparents Virgil and
LaVonne Buland of Chandler, Arizona and Mr. and Mrs. Chew Kai
Heng of Malacca, Malaysia, as well as relatives from Minnesota
to Malaysia and countless friends.
A visitation will be
held from 6-8 pm on Tuesday, December 5 at Greenwood Funeral
Home at 3100 White Settlement Road, Fort Worth, Texas 76107. A
funeral service will be held in Fort Worth at 1 pm on Wednesday,
December 6 at Grace Lutheran Church at 7900 McCart Avenue.
A memorial service will also be held in Temple, Texas at 2 pm on Thursday, December 7 at 4204 Hickory Road at Covenant Lutheran Church, where she was a member.
Donations can be sent to the Crowley House of Hope
To donate, to the Crowley House of Hope, send checks to P.O. Box
300, Crowley, TX 76036, or call Mary Jane Stuart at 817-297-1856.
Donations can also be taken to 101 N. Magnolia in Crowley.