Celebrating the Life of Paige Bullis '20

November 12, 2019

Paige Bullis '20 passed away on November 9.

She spent the last night of her life serving with the Night to Fight Homelessness, highlighting the needs of the less fortunate and doing her part to make a difference. Her example will be an inspiration to all of us.

On November 11, the CDH community gathered for a prayer service in honor of Paige. Students wore red over their uniforms in honor of Paige's dream to attend the University of Wisconsin - Madison. 

Our community lifts her family, parents Rocklyn and Paula Karel Bullis '86, sister Lauren '24 and brother Blake, in our prayers and shares in the heartbreak over the loss of Paige.  

As our community mourns the loss of Paige, students, faculty, and staff are encouraged to talk with trusted adults or our counseling staff if needed.  

The funeral for Paige will be held at St. John Neumann Catholic Church in Eagan at 10 am on Friday, November 15. There will be no school on Friday so that students may attend the funeral. Buses will be leaving from CDH at 9 am. Students can sign up to ride the buses in the Cafeteria, Commons, or Main Office this week at school. 

Visitation will be on Thursday, November 14 from 4-8 pm at O'Halloran and Murphy in Woodbury.

Eternal rest grant unto her.

Let perpetual light shine upon her.

Remembering Paige

Some of her friends and classmates shared their happy memories with Paige:

"Before a football game, I remember stopping at Walgreens to get a white eyeliner to draw on our faces with. While Paige and two of my friends went in, Paige’s friend and I moved parking spots to prank them. I will never forget the look on her face when she realized that we had pranked her. I will always remember that contagious laugh and big smile she had on her face as she laugh-yelled at me to get out of the front seat." - Molly Stanley '22

"Paige was not a fan of the warm-up for frisbee but always made it extra fun because she would rally us all together to run faster to get it over with. Also, when driving to a tournament one time, Paige and I got a bit lost and had to take a pit stop for Canes. It was the best part of the day. Paige was carefree and optimistic in a stressful situation. She found a way to calm ourselves and our stomachs before trying to solve the problem. Paige will never be forgotten, and always loved." - Carmella McGee '21

"A memory with Paige that I will never ever forget was during our freshmen year when Paige, Emma Honsa, and I all carpooled to school together. During the winter there were always random ice patches everywhere on the sidewalks and Paige would always slip and fall when she approached the ice, even when she knew it was there. We all laughed together and had a great time every single morning together in the car on the way to school. Paige had the biggest smile that made my mornings the best." - Olivia Garrity '20

"I had the privilege of knowing Paige since kindergarten but my funniest memory with her by far happened freshman year. We carpooled to school together every day and Paige had a very hard time not falling on the ice in the winter. Every day Paige, Olivia, my brother Billy, and I would walk into school and Paige would face plant on the ice and just laugh it off. She never let a smile leave her face even in bad times." - Emma Honsa '20

"I have known Paige since she was in Kindergarten. I was one of her Daisy, Brownie and Girl Scout troop leaders. She was always a happy kid and one of the things that stands out to me was how fast she could talk! She could have won a speed speech competition. She loved to talk! She will be missed." - Krista Honsa, parent

"Whenever Paige would slip off her shoes in class I would try and hide them or throw them away from her because it always made her do her contagious laugh that always got the rest of us to laugh." - Maxwell Karas '20

"Paige and I became very close friends during Junior year English class. My favorite memory is that we sat next to each other, and we would always look up our dream houses on Zillow.com. We joked and talked about how we would budget and pool in our money later in life to buy a really nice, expensive house. We found this one beautiful $10 million house in Vermont, and we made a deal that we would get high-paying jobs and buy this house and how we would rearrange/furnish it and it would be like a sitcom of two best friends living together." - Aidan Vitek '20

Do you have happy memories of Paige to share? Send them to news@c-dh.org.