Gladys Fullerton

SOUTH WOODSTOCK—Gladys I. Fullerton, 91, died on Thursday. June 20, 2007 at the Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center in Lebanon, N.H.

She was born on May 12, 1916 in Tunbridge, the daughter of Frank and Queeno (Cowen) Martin.

She graduated from South Royalton High School in 1936. She spent a few years working in housekeeping and child care and then moved to South Woodstock in the early 1940s. She married Edgar Fullerton on New Year’s Eve of 1943 and they moved into the Fullerton family home on Long Hill Road in South Woodstock, where she made her home for the remaining years of her life.

She spent many of her next years caring for children in South Woodstock, and for some Woodstock children and their families’ homes. She also worked for the Kedron Valley Inn for both the Arnold and Kendal families and for the Woodstock Senior Center for many years and continued to care for the Stienman children and their home.

In her later years, she was known for working as the "coffee bar lady" at the Cumberland Farms Store in Woodstock. She also worked cleaning for the Woodstock Police Department and a family in South Woodstock. She retired from her many jobs in November of 2006 at the age of 90.

She spent many years helping to organize the South Woodstock Christmas Pageant. She loved children, flowers, and cooking.

Survivors include her son, Victor D. Fullerton of Randolph Center; her daughter, Jean M. Panoushek of South Woodstock; four grandchildren; three brothers, Victor Martin of Pahrump, Nev.; Arthur Martin of Lee, Mass.; and Carl Martin of Williamstown; a sister Helen Ford of North Brookfield, Mass.; and many nieces, nephews and cousins.

She was predeceased by her husband, Edgar; two brothers, Robert and Leon; and two sisters, Marion Gilman and Elsie Irish.

A memorial service will be held Saturday, June 30 at 2 p.m. at the South Woodstock Community Church. Rev. Jim Proctor will officiate. Burial will follow in the Fullerton Cemetery on Long Hill in South Woodstock.

Memorial donations may be made to the South Woodstock Community Church, P.O. Box 302, South Woodstock, Vt. 05071.

Arrangements are under the direction of the Cabot Funeral Home in Woodstock.

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