Fuller - Gerald "Newt"
GERALD "Newt" FULLER
Source: Crawfordsville Journal Review 30 Apr 1968 p 1 typed by Walt W
Gerald N. "Newt" Fuller, 50, chairman of the Montgomery County Selective Board and a prominent Indiana Legionnaire, died suddenly Monday afternoon. He was stricken at his residence, 603 Sherwood Drive, and was pronounced dead at Culver hospital. Mr. Fuller had been a member of the Selective Service Board for 15 years. He was a U.S. Army veteran of World War II. Mr. Fuller had served the Legion as Southern Vice commander, 6th District commander and Byron Cox Post No. 72 commander. He also was a past chef-de-gare of Voiture 1310 of the Forty & Eight. Mr. Fuller was an athlete at Waynetown High School, where he played basketball and baseball, and was a basketball official for a number of years. He was a member of Crawfordsville Trinity Methodist Church, Elks Lodge 483 and Waynetown Masonic Lodge 402. Mr. Fuller attended Wabash College following his graduation from Waynetown High School in 1935. He was a 31-year employe of R. R. Donnelley & Sons Co., where he was foreman in the web offset pressroom. He was born Sept. 1, 1917, near Elmdale, a son of Bert and Pearl (Cowan) Fuller. His fist marriage was in 1939 to Lucy Martin. On Dec. 27, 1963, he was married to Charlotte Swickard. Surviving are his wife; his father; two sons, Rex Eugene, serving with the U.S. Air Force at San Antonio, Tex., and Donald Max, serving with the Air Force at Wichita Falls, Tex.; two step-sons, Douglas Swickard, serving with the Air Force in South Carolina, and Steven Swickard of Coatsville; two brothers, Harold of Rolla, Mo., and Paul of Rt. 6, and an aunt, Grace Cowan of Crawfordsville. His mother dried in 1961. Funeral services will be conducted at 3:30 p.m. Thursday at Hunt and Son Funeral Home. Interment will be in Oak Hill mausoleum. Friends may call at the funeral home after 7 p.m. today. The American Legion will be in charge of military rites at the cemetery.