Omer B Fuller Jr 1898 - 1961

FULLER, SHERMAN, FORD, WHITE, SERGEL, MUNGER, FLINDERS

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Date: 2/8/2008 at 20:38:07

Omer B. Fuller Rites Held Friday, Nov 10
Funeral services for O.B. Fuller were held at 1:30 p.m. Friday, November 10, in the Rolfe Methodist church. Rev. M. M. Schapper officiated.

Music was provided by Mrs. Ruth Olney at the pipe organ and Mrs. Frances Smith and Mrs. Mary Jane Jordan who sang “Ivory Palaces” and “Beyond the Sunset”.

Floral tributes were arranged by Mr. And Mrs. Fred Nelson and Mrs. Fern Pease.

Pallbearers were Carl Hansen, A.V. Graeber, LeRoy Rude, N. A. Wilson, George Beckord and Harley Peterson. Interment was in the Clinton-Garfield cemetery, Rolfe, with the Streit Funeral Service in charge.

Omer Bissop Fuller was born in Rolfe, Ia., October 26, 1898, the son of Omer Bissop Fuller and Mary Sherman Fuller. He died in Rolfe as the result of a heart attack on November 6, 1961, at the age of 63. He attended both elementary and high school in Rolfe and was graduated from high school here in 1917. He then attended the State University for about three years, having spent some of this period in the United States Army. He was later a member of the American Legion.

After a period of work and travel in various parts of the country he began carrying mail on rural routes, and served in this capacity for approximately 33 years. During this time he studied law with Judge Coyle of Humboldt and was admitted to the bar. For some time he was a Justice of the Peace and practiced law more as an avocation than as an all-absorbing vocation. A prominent attorney of this district once said of him, “For a case to be of interest to Son Fuller, it is necessary that it be raise a very fine point of law, for which there are no precedents, and a further necessity is that the client must have no money.”

Some of these cases he carried to the Iowa Supreme Court, where he won two-thirds of them. His accounts show what is known to but few, that much of his legal work he made no charge whatever. A fellow member of the bar, Clem Garfield, said of him, Omer Fuller is a good man”.

He was married on December 4, 1926, to Maymie Ford. Two daughters were born to them, Mary Elizabeth, now Mrs. Dean Munger of Ridgway, Colo., and Shirley Ann, now Mrs. James Flinders of Sutherland, Ia.

Throughout his life Mr. Fuller was always interested in any intellectual challenge, not only in the fine points of law, but in the intricacies of chess, in which he was a redoubtable. Other interests and studies included almost unsolvable puzzles. In his later years he studied genealogy and philately. He had an excellent stamp collection.

He was always interested in economic and political issues and his opinions were always original, different and penetrating.

Surviving him are his two daughters, 11 grandchildren, and his two sisters, Dr. Florence Fuller-White of Rolfe and Ruth Fuller Sergel of Chicago, Ill. He was preceded in death by his parents and wife.

The Rolfe Arrow Thursday November 16, 1961