Obituary of (Hazel) Betty (Tanner) Fuller, 2002; Baker Co., OR
Surnames: Fuller, Tanner, Peterson, Hatch, Ericson

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Betty Fuller 

Hazel Betty Tanner Fuller, 81, a former Baker City resident, died Feb. 10,
2002, at Brigham City, Utah, after suffering a massive stroke Feb. 3. 

Visitations will be at Gillies-Petersen Funeral Chapel, 634 East 200 South,
Brigham City, from 6:30 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. Tuesday and at the Brigham City 19thWard Chapel, 105 W. Fishburn, from 9 a.m. to 9:45 a.m. on Wednesday. Her
funeral will be at this chapel at 10 a.m. Wednesday. 

Concluding services will be in Baker City Thursday at 2:30 p.m. at the Baker
Second Ward, Hughes Lane Chapel, 2625 Hughes Lane. Family will meet friends at
the church Thursday from 1:30 p.m. to 2:15 p.m. 

Interment will be at Mount Hope Cemetery. 

Mrs. Fuller was born March 31, 1920, at Payson, Utah, the only child of
Beswick Moroni Tanner and Annie Caroline Peterson. She married Dennis L.
Fuller on May 4, 1946, at Provo, Utah, with a later sealing in the Manti
Temple on July 15, 1960. 

She graduated from Lincoln High School at Orem, Utah, and attended Brigham
Young University for two years. She met her husband of 55 years while working
at Fort Douglas, Utah, during World War II. 

She was a lifelong member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
While raising her family in Baker City, she served three different times as
Relief Society president and in many Sunday School, Young Women, and Primary
positions. Her community involvement included 19 years of PTA duties at
Churchill Elementary School where all five of her children attended, president
of Baker Junior High PTA, membership in the Veterans of Foreign Wars Auxiliary
and the Business and Professional Women's Association. 

She worked for the U.S. Forest Service at the Baker Ranger Station and as
secretary to the forest supervisor before retiring with 17 years of service in
October 1982.  

Upon retirement, she served three full-time temple missions for the Church of
Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints at the Seattle Temple, the Boise Temple and
the London Temple. After moving to Brigham City, Utah, in 1991 she served in
different positions in the Relief Society and recently received her eight-year
certificate for Danish Extraction.  

She had also served in various offices in the Daughters of the Utah Pioneers
Desert Camp and was serving as the 1st vice captain at the time of her death. 

Survivors include her husband; her five children and their spouses, James D.
and Marilyn Fuller of Brigham City, Utah, Richard T. and Cheryl Fuller of
Chandler, Ariz., Christopher C. and Gwen Fuller of Arlington, Va., Keri E. and
Richard Hatch of Fort Campbell, Ky. and Katrina J. and Carl Ericson of Nampa,
Idaho; and 22 grandchildren and six great-grandchildren.