Frances Florence Fuller, a 99-year-old resident of Princeton, died on Saturday, Dec. 8, 2007 at the Sunnyview Care Center in Ankeny, IA.
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Funeral services will be held at 11 a.m. on Thursday, Dec. 13, 2007 at the Princeton United Methodist Church. Pastor Robin Banion will officiate. Burial will be in the Princeton Cemetery, under the direction of the Greenlee-Middleton Funeral Chapel in Princeton.
An open visitation will begin at 8 a.m. on Wednesday, Dec. 12, 2007 at the funeral chapel.
Mrs. Fuller was born on Aug. 24, 1908 in Des Moines, IA, the daughter of John Wesley and Clara Foulk Budd. She was raised in Des Moines, graduating at the age of 15 from East High School. She received a degree in dietetics from Iowa State University in Ames, IA in 1934. She was a member of Pi Beta Phi sorority. After college, she interned at the Children’s Hospital in Boston.
She was married on April 20, 19, 1935 in Princeton to Robert Perry Fuller, who preceded her in death on June 24, 1971. They made their home on a farm southeast of Princeton. She worked as a dietician at the Axtell Hospital and the Care Center in Princeton until her retirement. After her husband’s death, she moved to a home in Princeton. For the past few years, she had been residing in assisted living facilities in Leon, IA and later in Ankeny.
She enjoyed growing flowers, bird watching and all of nature. Her yard was selected several times as the Yard of the Year at Princeton. She received the Mother of the Year Award in 1958. She enjoyed her card club and was very active in the Princeton United Methodist Church.
She is survived by four children, Roberta Thompson and her husband, Mike, of Ankeny, John Fuller and his wife, Barbara, of Wichita, KS, Florence Lyman and her husband, John, of Belle Plaine, IA, and Frank Fuller and his wife, Jan, of Iola, KS; 10 grandchildren; 20 great-grandchildren; two great-great-grandchildren; and numerous nieces and nephews.
She was preceded in death by her husband; her parents; four siblings, Helen Budd Watts, Dr. John Budd, Susan Budd Mether and Frank Budd.
Memorials are suggested to the Princeton United Methodist Church. They may be mailed to the church at 804 E. Main St., Princeton, MO 64673.