Obit of Fulton, Virginia Kathleen - Osage County, Oklahoma Submitted by: Gene Phillips 28 Sep 2008 Return to Osage County Archives: http://www.usgwarchives.net/ok/osage/osage.htm ===================================================================== USGENWEB NOTICE Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm ===================================================================== ::Cloverdale Memorial Park--Boise ID Fulton, Virginia Kathleen Virginia Kathleen Fulton, 81, of Boise passed away March 22, 2007. Graveside services will be held at 1:30 p.m., Thursday, March 29, 2007 at Cloverdale Memorial Park with viewing from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. at Cloverdale Funeral Home. Memorial services will follow at 2:30 p.m., at All Saints Episcopal Church, 704 S. Latah St., Boise, with Reverend Lothar Pietz officiating. Services are under the direction of Cloverdale Funeral Home. Virginia was born in Webb City, Okla. on February 9, 1926 to Roy and Ova Nunley. She was the youngest of three children; the eldest was a daughter, Noma, and son, Gene, was the middle child. She spent her childhood in Oklahoma and Kansas. She graduated form Madison High School in Madison, Kan. in 1944 and then she went on to graduate from North Texas State Teachers College with a Bachelor of Business Administration on June 2, 1948. After graduating from college she worked as an executive secretary for many years for several different government agencies including the School of Education, North Texas State University, the U.S. Bureau of Indian Affairs, Billings Mont., and the St. Alexis School of Nursing, Bismarck, N.D. Virginia married Richard L. Fulton on July 23, 1949. He was a W. W. II Navy veteran who worked in the oil industry. Richards job often required him to move to different cities and states. She moved with him, as Richards job required, giving birth to a son, also named Richard in Bismarck, N.D. on October 31,1955 and a second son, named Miles, in Lafayette, La. on August 9, 1957. Virginia was a Cub Scout Den Mother from 1964 to 1969 while her sons belonged to that organization and she was also a member of the Will- More Grade School PTA in Bismarck, N.D. from 1965 to 1967. Always thoughtful of a citizens civic responsibilities Virginia became active in the North Dakota League of Woman Voters and she became a delegate to the League of Woman Voters National Convention in 1968. She then served as a president of the North Dakota League of Woman Voters from 1969 to 1970. Mrs. Fulton was also a Delegate to the North Dakota Governors Conference on the Environment in 1970 as well as belonging to many civic organizations in the Bismarck area. Virginia finally received the honor of being included in the book Personalities of the West and Midwest in 1971 and in the book Who's Who of American Women 1972-1973. Unfortunately, on March 24,1970 Virginia's husband, Richard died of complications resulting from a heart condition. Because of her husbands death Virginia changed her energies from civic affairs to raising her two sons and closing her husbands business The La Habana Corporation. She moved her family to Sacramento, Calif. to be near her mothers family in late 1970 and then moved them again to Boise, Idaho in late 1971. While she lived in Boise she worked as an executive secretary for several different State Agencies including the Idaho State Planning Office. Virginia left Idaho for Tucson, Ariz. in 1975 to start her own secretarial service but returned to Boise in 1977 to again work as an executive secretary for the state of Idaho until she moved to Denver, Colo. in 1980 where she found work as an executive secretary for the Amoco Oil Company. She retired from Amoco in 1991 and moved to Washington State to be near her son, Miles Fulton. They moved back to Boise in 1995 and she lived there until succumbing to a long illness. Virginias two sons; Richard Lafayette Fulton II and Miles Dyer Fulton and her sister Noma Poe survive her. Published in the Idaho Statesman on 3/28/2007. --------------------------------------------------------------------- Return to Osage County Archives: http://www.usgwarchives.net/ok/osage/osage.htm