Grace F. Mullen

Grace Friend Mullen, 74, of Indianapolis passed away peacefully in hospice care on September 1, 2022, with her loving husband Ted at her side. Grace was born in Manchester, CT to the late Robert and Ruth Friend. She lived most of her early years with her family in Charlotte, NC and Columbia, SC until attending Mary Baldwin College, where she graduated with honors, finishing second in her class. She then moved to Boston, MA and began her career in college administration at Harvard, where she met and married Ted Mullen, her husband for fifty years. When she and Ted moved to Indianapolis, Grace continued her career at Butler University.

Grace will be remembered for her very high intelligence, her witty sense of humor, her kindness and respect toward everyone she knew, and her love for Ted and all her family, including her beloved Buster and her many other Basset Hound pets over the years. Everyone who knew Grace loved her for being the caring and warmhearted woman that she was.

Grace is survived by her husband Everett Theodore (Ted) Mullen, Jr, sister Carole Pinckney and husband Frank of Greenville, SC, brother Robert Friend, Jr and wife Rebecca of Mint Hill, NC, sister-in-law Sue Setzer of Cornelius, NC, brother-in-law Walter Mullen and husband Jamie Rude of Milford, CT, and her many nieces and nephews, cousins, and friends who all will miss her dearly.

Funeral plans are incomplete, but Grace’s final resting place will be in NC, where a service to celebrate her life will be arranged.