FULLERTON, Mary Alice 1871-1949

FULLERTON

Posted By: County Coordinator
Date: 1/13/2013 at 23:52:33

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FORMER RESIDENT
DIED WEDNESDAY
IN ROCKFORD

Mary Alice Fullerton, a former Osage resident, died at six o'clock Wednesday morning at her home in Rockford. She was a mathematics teacher in Washington grade school for many years before going to Rockford about eight years ago.

Funeral arrangements are incomplete at this time. She had been in poor health about three weeks, but had not been seriously ill.

MITCHELL COUNTY PRESS, JUNE 30, 1949
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MARY ALICE FULLERTON

Mary Alice Fullerton was born in Portland township, near Nora Springs, Iowa, on August 21, 1871, and died in Rockford, Iowa, on June 29, 1949, when nearly 78 years of age. While an infant Miss Fullerton moved with her parents, Alex and Martha Craig Fullerton, to Nora Springs, where she lived until 1903.

She attended the pubic schools and the Seminary in Nora Springs and graduated from Iowa State Teachers College in 1897. Miss Fullerton began teaching about 1890 in the "Esser School" southwest of Rockford, then spent a few years teaching in the public schools of Nora springs. After graduating from Cedar Falls she taught in the Nora Springs Seminary.

In 1903 she moved to Osage to teach mathematics and English in the Cedar Valley Seminary. She brought her parents with her to Osage and all three were active members of the First Baptist church. except for two or three years spent caring for her aged parents, She was associated continually either as teacher or librarian in the Cedar valley Seminary until that institution closed in 1922.

She then transferred her services to Washington school in Osage where she was an arithmetic teacher until 1936, when she retired.

Her next seven years were devoted to the care of her widowed sister, Mrs. Elmer Briggs, who was in poor health in Rockford. Miss Fullerton's last five years were spent at her home in Rockford and the winters were spent in Pensacola, Florida, with her sister-in-law, Mrs. Frank Fullerton, and family.

Miss Fullerton devoted about forty years to classroom and library services. During her retirement years she kept an active interest in schools and spent much time in helping the children of neighbors and relatives with their school work.

Surviving are her sister-in-law; two nephews, Ralph Briggs of Chicago Heights, Illinois, and Craig Fullerton of Pensacola, Florida; and three grand-nephews.

Funeral services for Miss Fullerton were held July 1 at the Rockford Methodist church with Rev. R. Sires officiating. Burial was made in Riverside Cemetery in Rockford.

Source: Mitchell County Press, July 7, 1949