Fuller, Caroline Ardaline Wills (1913-2004)

FULLER, WILLS, ROUNTREE, VARLAND, ATWATER, CLABAUGH, NEESE, HOVE, ERICKSON

Posted By: Debbie Greenfield (email)
Date: 3/20/2017 at 16:41:36

Daily Freeman Journal, Webster City, Iowa, Tuesday, July 20, 2004

Caroline Fuller, 90, Webster City, died Thursday, July 15, 2004 at Crestview Senior Living. Funeral services will be held Wednesday at 1 p.m. at the Stanhope Parish, with Pastor Suzie Moore officiating. Visitation will be at the Foster Funeral and Cremation Center from 5 to 8 p.m. Tuesday and after 11 a.m. Wednesday at the church.

Caroline Ardaline Wills, daughter of Henry and Ardaline Rountree Wills, was born Aug. 10, 1913 at Stanhope. The family resided at Stanhope and in 1926 moved to Radcliffe where she graduated. She taught at a rural school and then moved back to Stanhope in 1937. On Feb. 14, 1940, she married Everett LeRoy Fuller at Stanhope. The couple farmed west of Stanhope and in 1964, they moved to Stanhope. They retired from farming in 1979. She had worked at the Stanhope Grocery and a Stanhope dress shop. Mr. Fuller died Nov. 18, 1995. She continued to reside at Stanhope. For the past 10 months, she had received care from Crestview and Trinity Regional Medical Center Hospice.

Mrs. Fuller is survived by sons and daughters-in-law, Ralph and Gwen Fuller of Wilmington, Del., Ron and Deb Fuller of Stanhope; 7 grandchildren; 7 great-grandchildren; a sister, Lois Varland of Radcliffe; several nieces and nephews.

In addition to her husband, she was preceded in death by her parents; brothers and sisters Emma Atwater, Leona Clabaugh, Muriel Neese, Lester Wills, Sterling Wills, Ralph Wills, Velma Wills, in infancy, and LaVonne Hove Erickson.

She was a member of the Stanhope Parish, where she was a deaconess for several years, taught Sunday school; served in various offices at the CWF, Crestview Bell Choir and enjoyed the many activities at Crestview.