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Donald Ray Fuller

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Donald Ray Fuller

Birth
Burgess, Mercer County, Illinois, USA
Death
27 Jul 1970 (aged 62)
Aledo, Mercer County, Illinois, USA
Burial
Aledo, Mercer County, Illinois, USA Add to Map
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He went by the Name of Ray. He was the oldest of 16 children born to Edgar Clinton Fuller and Aarona Mabel Reeves Fuller. Mabel is buried in McPherren Cemetery in Ohio Grove Township, Mercer County, Illinois along with 2 children who died infancy. Edgar is buried in Wickes, Polk County, Arkansas along with a daughter who died in infancy and one son who never married and died in Little Rock, Arkansas. This family moved several times. They lived in Mercer County, Illinois, Michigan and Arkansas. Ray married Daisy Marie Huttenstine(Lange) in Warren County, Illinois on April, 7, 1927. Ray and Daisy had 5 children Laddie Ray, Virgil DeWayne, Bettie Joan (Mrs. W. Stanley Speer), Delven Leroy, and Billie Donald "Bill". Ray was a truck driver for many years for Murdock Trucking. His grandchildren (who lived in Sunbeam)were always excited to see him pull up in the drive to haul livestock to the Chicago Stockyards.

Here is the obituary from the Times Record
Donald Ray Fuller of Joy Services Today

Funeral services for Donald Ray Fuller,62, of Joy, were held at 2 p.m. today, Wednesday, in the Olin Funeral Home in Joy with the Rev. James Hancock, pastor of the Joy United Methodist Church, officiating and burial was in the Aledo Cemetery.
Mr. Fuller died Sunday morning in the Mercer County Hospital, Aledo, following an extended illness.
He was born Dec. 4, 1907, in Burgess, the son of Edgar and Mable Reeves Fuller and had resided most of his lifetime in the Joy area. He married Daisy Huttenstine on April 27, 1927 and she died in 1952.
Mr. Fuller married Mable Garrett on Dec. 21, 1955, in Chicago.
He was a retired truck driver.
Surviving are the widow; four sons, Laddie of Dixon , Billy of Redwood City, Calif., Virgil of Moline, and Delvin of Green Rock;a daughter Mrs. Stanley Speer of Aledo; two brothers, Wayne of Little Rock, Ark.;and James in Michigan; five sisters, Mrs.Dorothy Hoskin of Washington, Mrs. Stanley Disbrow of Ypsilanti, Mich., Mrs. Norwin Peterson of Calamus, Ia., Mrs. Grace Lovendresky of Honor, Mich., and Mrs. Freda Graham of Herman, Calif.; his mother in Aledo;three step-sons, Wayne Garrett of Rock Island,Keith Garrett of Omaha and Harold Garrett of Davenport; 11 grandchildren and nine step-grandchildren.
Five brothers, four sisters and his father preceded him in death.
He went by the Name of Ray. He was the oldest of 16 children born to Edgar Clinton Fuller and Aarona Mabel Reeves Fuller. Mabel is buried in McPherren Cemetery in Ohio Grove Township, Mercer County, Illinois along with 2 children who died infancy. Edgar is buried in Wickes, Polk County, Arkansas along with a daughter who died in infancy and one son who never married and died in Little Rock, Arkansas. This family moved several times. They lived in Mercer County, Illinois, Michigan and Arkansas. Ray married Daisy Marie Huttenstine(Lange) in Warren County, Illinois on April, 7, 1927. Ray and Daisy had 5 children Laddie Ray, Virgil DeWayne, Bettie Joan (Mrs. W. Stanley Speer), Delven Leroy, and Billie Donald "Bill". Ray was a truck driver for many years for Murdock Trucking. His grandchildren (who lived in Sunbeam)were always excited to see him pull up in the drive to haul livestock to the Chicago Stockyards.

Here is the obituary from the Times Record
Donald Ray Fuller of Joy Services Today

Funeral services for Donald Ray Fuller,62, of Joy, were held at 2 p.m. today, Wednesday, in the Olin Funeral Home in Joy with the Rev. James Hancock, pastor of the Joy United Methodist Church, officiating and burial was in the Aledo Cemetery.
Mr. Fuller died Sunday morning in the Mercer County Hospital, Aledo, following an extended illness.
He was born Dec. 4, 1907, in Burgess, the son of Edgar and Mable Reeves Fuller and had resided most of his lifetime in the Joy area. He married Daisy Huttenstine on April 27, 1927 and she died in 1952.
Mr. Fuller married Mable Garrett on Dec. 21, 1955, in Chicago.
He was a retired truck driver.
Surviving are the widow; four sons, Laddie of Dixon , Billy of Redwood City, Calif., Virgil of Moline, and Delvin of Green Rock;a daughter Mrs. Stanley Speer of Aledo; two brothers, Wayne of Little Rock, Ark.;and James in Michigan; five sisters, Mrs.Dorothy Hoskin of Washington, Mrs. Stanley Disbrow of Ypsilanti, Mich., Mrs. Norwin Peterson of Calamus, Ia., Mrs. Grace Lovendresky of Honor, Mich., and Mrs. Freda Graham of Herman, Calif.; his mother in Aledo;three step-sons, Wayne Garrett of Rock Island,Keith Garrett of Omaha and Harold Garrett of Davenport; 11 grandchildren and nine step-grandchildren.
Five brothers, four sisters and his father preceded him in death.


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