Chloe Anne Fullen, wife of Bernie Fullen, Class of 1963, for 43 years, passed away in Massillon, Ohio where they lived. Chloe was from Webster Springs, West Virginia.

Facebooked Bernie: “I miss her terribly. It was the hardest day of my life.”

 

Since my wife of 48 years, Monnie Elizabeth Turkette Olesky of Cinderella, West Virginia, passed away in 2004, I have an inkling of what Bernie is going through.

 

It isn’t easy and no one can do it for you. Like Bernie, I was “all shook up.”

Bernie played basketball at Monongah High.

If you want to send condolences to Bernie, his address is:

Bernard Fullen

131 Star Circle NW
Massillon, OH 44646

And his phone number is (330) 904-7739.

Bernie plans to visit his brothers in Clarksburg and Fairmont, starting Thursday, June 25.

Bernie’s brothers are Arley Hayhurst, who lives in a Nutter Fort nursing home; Don Fullen, who lives in Falls Church, Virginia; and Delbert T. “Ted” Fullen, who lives in Pennsboro, near Parkersburg.

Tara McHenry of Greenwood, Indiana is Bernie and Chloe’s granddaughter. She called Chloe “Mimi” and Bernie “Poppy.” There were no calling hours for Chloe, who was cremated.

The Fullen brothers’ sister, Eva Geraldine “Gerry” Fullen Ross, Class of 1950, has lived in Harbor Beach, Michigan, “a block from Lake Huron,” Gerry says, for 46 of her 62 married years to former Detroit firefighter Don Ross.

 

Other than sinus problems, Gerry says she’s doing “not bad at all” for an octogenarian.

Gerry was a live-in maid, beginning at age 18, for a Bridgeport pastor, who gave her the nickname “Gerry” that has stuck to this day.

 

When the pastor was reassigned to Moundsville, Gerry found other maid work before joining the Air Force for two years.

That’s where she met Don Ross, even though he was in the Army. Don was stationed at Fort Holabird near Baltimore, where the Air Force also had a base.

 

That conveniently caused Don and Gerry to meet and marry despite being in different branches of the service.

Gerry’s phone number is (989) 712-0981.