JAMES FULLER

FORT WORTH -- James Clinton Fuller, 91, died peacefully Friday morning, June 29, 2007. Funeral: Following private services for the family, Jim will be laid to rest in Greenwood Memorial Park. Visitation: A reception celebrating his life will be hosted by the Fuller family 4 to 6 p.m. Tuesday at Colonial Country Club. Memorials: Consideration of contributions, in lieu of flowers, to the Alzheimer's Association or to a charity of one's choice, in memory of Jim, is suggested. James Clinton Fuller, the son of Samuel Harris and Mary Nettie Hyde Fuller, was born Sept. 27, 1915, in Tyler County. He earned B.S. and B.B.A. degrees from Stephen F. Austin University in 1939. Shortly after his marriage in 1941 to his college sweetheart, Wilma Watkins, Jim entered Marine Officer Candidate School in Quantico, Va., and served in the Marines until a health condition forced his honorable medical discharge. Jim then found wartime work in public relations at Consolidated Vultee Aircraft Corp., first in Fort Worth,...