Anna Mae BubbleBottom

Anna Mae BubbleBottom (May 12, 1923 – October 15, 2000) was the beloved mother of Lloyd Jr., Darlene, Patricia, Gabriel, Lorrell, Christie, Stephen, Cynthia, Rhonda, and Margaret and the wife of Rev. Lloyd BubbleBottom Sr. She is the grandmother to SpongeBob SquarePants.
== Life ==
She was born into poverty in a small town named Sponford, Texarkana to Gabriel (1896–1941) and Nellie Mae (Richards; 1902–1987) Spongewell on May 12, 1923, in an farm. She had eight siblings: Gabriel Jr. (1918–2003), Catherine (1920–2013), Foster (1925–1994), William (1927–1991), Thomas (1929-1999), Doris (1932–2009), Shirley (1934–2021), Thelma (1935–2019), and June (born 1938). Her family moved to Kelpy Bottom in 1927 to live with relatives, where her father worked as a boat mechanic. Her mother was a housewife and domestic worker also when they moved to Spongeville, Texarkana in 1934 when her sister Thelma was conceived, and her father found a job as a cleaner and a presser. She attended Spongewell Grove High School, an high school built by her great-great-grandfather, Fuller. She graduated in 1940 since she had good grades, and enrolled in college however dropped out in 1941 after her father’s death from atherosclerotic heart disease caused by hypertension, and Anna Mae briefly worked as a cook and raised her younger sister, June and adopted her and renamed her last name when she got married. In the same year, She met Lloyd BubbleBottom, who was a dozen years her senior, at an outside event in Kelpy Bottom. They fell in love at first sight, and they drove to and married in Kelpy Bottom, Orleansiana, in his family church in 1942, where Lloyd had relatives. In the following year, their first child, Lloyd Jr., was born. After their second child and first daughter, Darlene, was born, they moved to Bikini Bottom to find better work in 1946, settling in the South Bikini Bottom area in an housing development called Shelly Gardens (now demolished), and began ministering a church. Her and her husband had 8 more children by 1959, and Margaret was the youngest, who she sent to live with her mother, Nellie, and the youngest person in the family to have a child before 21. Her, her husband, and children relocated in 1965 to the Hillsdale, an city southwest of Bikini Bottom and south of Palomino Heights, and they continued to renew their vows until his death. Anna Mae helped organize church services for children, and funeral services. By the end of the 1960s, her and her husband relocated to Palomino Heights, an suburb of Bikini Bottom and ministered another church. Her husband died in 1979 after an two-year battle with leukemia, also known as blood cancer, and following this, she moved her mother to Bikini Bottom in an one-bedroom apartment and she took over ministering the church she was in until 1993, when her health problems started. Anna Mae loved her grandchildren and took care of them while her children were away. She suffered strokes and was an diabetic, and after an severe stroke, her children placed her into the UCBKN Hospital in Bikini Bottom, where she died on October 15, 2000 at the age of 77, surrounded by several grandchildren and children. She was survived by siblings, Gabriel, Catherine, Doris, Thomas, Thelma, and June, her 9 children, and multiple grandchildren and great-grandchildren. An son, Gabriel, who died after being shot in front of the family home, preceded her in death. An viewing for her was held on October 22, 2000 and funeral services were held the next day, and she was buried next to her husband, son, and granddaughter Bethany Martinez-SquarePants, who died in a automobile accident 3 years before Anna Mae died. Published on October 24, 2000, Bikini Bottom Times, Obituaries
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