Mary Ellen Fullmer

March 3, 1925 - June 8, 2017

TORRINGTON, WYOMING...........Funeral services for MARY ELLEN FULLMER, 92, will be held at 1pm Wednesday, June 14, 2017 at the Colyer Funeral Home Chapel. Burial will follow in the Valley View Cemetery. Mary Ellen died June 8, 2017 at Goshen Healthcare Community. Memorials may be given to the Goshen Healthcare Community Activities Department. Visitation will be Tuesday from 3pm to 5pm and the casket will be open briefly following services. Arrangements are by the Colyer Funeral Home. Condolences may be sent to www.colyerfuneralhome.com. Mary Ellen was born March 3, 1925 at her home in Veteran, Wyoming the daughter of Dr. George and Edith (Arnold) Haas. She attended school, grades 1-12 in Veteran graduating Veteran High School in 1943. She married Leeland Fuller December 4, 1943. The first two years of their marriage Leeland was in the US Navy and stationed overseas. Upon his return they lived and farmed in Veteran. They welcomed four children during this time. In 1968 they moved to Laramie, Wyoming where she worked in retail. They moved to Worland, Wyoming in 1983 where she worked for J.C. Penney. After ten years there they returned to Goshen County to retire. She worked to several stores in Torrington, Laramie, and Worland for twenty-six years. She also worked as a seamstress doing alterations for the stores, and out of her home for family, friends and the community. Mary Ellen loved gardening, canning, sewing, knitting, needlepoint, crocheting, cooking, was an animal lover and loved spending time with her family. She had been a 4-H Leader and was a member of the American Legion Auxiliary Post #56, the Triple G Club, the Extension Club and a member of the First Presbyterian Church in Torrington. Mary Ellen is survived by sons Jim (Lidia) Fullmer of Modesto, California and Russell (Debbie) Fullmer of Sheridan, Wyoming; daughter Patricia Fullmer of Denver, Colorado; daughters-in-law Boni (Jim) Fanning of Windsor, Colorado and Peggy Fullmer of Austin, Texas; nine grandchildren; and seven great grandchildren. She was preceded in death by her parents George and Edith Haas; husband Leeland Fullmer; son Rodney Fullmer; brothers Leslie, Hubert, Bernard and Howard; and sisters Helen Booth, Emma Jean Terrill and Vivian Hill.