Robert V Fullmer

Grave side services for Robert V. Fullmer, 92, will be held at 3:30 p.m. Thursday, Feb. 11, 2016 at the Valley View Cemetery with Reverend Matt Gordon officiating. Military honors will be performed by the Wyoming National Guard. Robert died Feb. 4, 2016 at Community Hospital in Torrington. Memorials may be given to Meals on Wheels at the Torrington Senior Friendship Center. Visitation will be Wednesday from 3 p.m. to 5 p.m. at the funeral home. Arrangements are under the direction of the Colyer Funeral Home and friends may send condolences to the family at www.colyerfuneralhome.com. Robert was born Aug. 23, 1923 in Kearney, Nebraska the son of Coy and Leona (Cloud) Fullmer. After school he entered the US Army Air Corp in 1942 where he served in the 9th Air Force Fighter Squadron during WWII and was discharged in 1945. He returned to Wyoming where he served ten years in the National Guard in Guernsey, Wyoming. He married Helena Glasgow and then worked in the oil fields in Lynch, Wyoming for three and a half years as a mechanic. They moved to Worland, Wyoming where he worked as a mechanic at the Ford dealership for ten years. They spent 10 years in Lander, Wyoming and 10 years in Riverton, Wyoming. Helena died while they were in Riverton. Robert worked as a maintenance mechanic for the State of Wyoming Highway Department and retired in 1990. In 1999 he married June Terrell in Douglas, Wyoming. He later moved to Torrington, Wyoming. Robert enjoyed hunting, fishing, reading, gardening and doing lapidary work (rock grinding and polishing some of which he sold or gave as gifts). Robert is survived by two sons Robert Fullmer of Reno, Nevada and Dean Fullmer of Rock Springs, Wyoming; a son-in-law Bob LaCross of San Diego, Califronia; a sister Margaret Arland of Minneapolis, Minnesota; three step daughters Judy Swan of Casper, Wyoming, Linda Terrell of Casper, and Jan Kolbet of Douglas, Wyoming; seven grandchildren; and fourteen great grandchildren. He was preceded in death by his parents; his wives Helena and June; an infant son Ronald and a son Steven Fullmer; a daughter Sandra LaCross; and two brothers Leland Fullmer and Douglas Fullmer.

Robert V Fullmer

August 23, 1923 - February 4, 2016