FULLER, Blanche Mae

FULLER, WOODLIFF, BEETLE, MILLER

Posted By: Pat Ludeke (email)
Date: 6/10/2013 at 00:45:21

BLANCHE MAE FULLER, 102, Clear Lake, died Monday, Aug. 28, 1995, at
Oakwood Care Center, Clear Lake. Funeral services were held Saturday, Sept.
2, at Ward-Van Slyke Colonial Chapel, Clear Lake, with the Rev. Bernard Olson
officiating. Burial was in the Clear Lake Cemetery.

Blanch was born Sept. 7, 1892, in Norwalk, Wis., the daughter of
Frederick Thomas Woodliff and Lillian Mae Woodliff (nee) Beetle. She
attended school in Norwalk and was employed as a hired girl.

She met her future husband when she and a brother went to
Dakota to work as ranch house cook and hired hand for a threshing crew. The
workers included Lewis Lester Fuller, of Clear Lake. After going to their
respective homes, Lewis later traveled to Wisconsin to make Blanch his bride.
They were married Feb. 2, 1912, in LaCrosse, Wis. They moved to South Dakota for
a year and then settled in Clear Lake. She worked in restaurants and as a
practical nurse.

Her hobbies included baking, crocheting afghans and piecing qults.
She was a member of the United Methodist Church, Clear Lake and the
Grandmother's Club.

She is survived by three grandsons, Larry Fuller, Clear Lake, Anthony
Fuller, Granada Hills, Calif., and Mark Fuller, Beatrice, Neb.; and a
half-sister, Vella Nelson, Minneapolis, Minn.

She was preceded in death by her parents; husband; two sons,
Lester Fuller and Fredrick Fuller; infant twin daughters; two brothers,
Fredrick Woodliff and Harvey Woodliff; a grand-daughter, Joan Nissen; and two
half-sisters and two half-brothers.