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Show Death Claims John P. Fuller Phis Morning John P. Fuller, 65. for many years a prominent merchant of Cedar City, and one of the mast active civic workers the city has known, pa-ssed quietly away today, following follow-ing an illness from heart trouble from which he had suffered since June 1940. He was stricken 111 on June 13. 1940 and had been practically bedfast bed-fast since, except for a few days late in October when he was able to leave his home for a short visit with friends. He had enjoyed visits from friends and relatives yesterday, yester-day, which was the 65th anniversary anniver-sary of his birthdate, and was feeling feel-ing about as usual this morning when Mrs. Fuller, who is city treasurer, treas-urer, left to spend a couple of hours at the city offices. When she returned, re-turned, however, she found her husband hus-band dead, apparently having passed pass-ed quietly away only a few minutes earlier. Mr. and Mrs. Fuller came to Cedar Ce-dar City in 1914, opening the Golden Gold-en Rule store, which they operated as one of the leading mercantile Institutions here, until 1934. Soon after coming to Cedar City, Mr. Fuller became one of the community's commun-ity's most active civic workers, serving serv-ing for years in various capacities, including director and president of the Chamber of Commerce. As president of the Chamber of Commerce he gave leadership to the re-openlng of the Bank of Southern Utah which had been closed during the crash of 1930-31, the re-openlng of which is recognized over the entire state as one of the finest examples of community effort In me insiory oi me siaie. other important im-portant development projects in which Mr. Fuller was prominently Identified as a civic leader was in the erection of the Escalante Hotel and the bringing of the railroad to Cedar City, and also the securing of the site for the Federal bulldlm; and also securing government approval ap-proval for the erection of the building. build-ing. While these were his outstanding achievements, he also participated in many others. In fact, there wen; few civic undertakings during his active years in which he was not prominently associated. His last service was when he served as secretary se-cretary of the Chamber of Commerce Com-merce during 1939. In addition to these activities, Mr. Fuller served several terms as City Councilman and was always extremely ex-tremely active in political circles, and was a charter member of the Cedar City Rotary Club. Mr. Fuller was born In Kanab on January 8, 1876, a son of Lucius and Ann Lay Fuller, who were a-monk a-monk the first settlers to enter Kmu county. As a boy he experienced many of the hardships of early pioneer life. At the age of 12 years he was carrying the mail on horseback horse-back between Kanab and Lee's Ferry in Arizona. Each trip required four days time, two days each way, with the night stop made at house-rock house-rock valley in the Kaibab forest. On June 1, 1898 he married Rose SeegmiUer of what was then known as upper Kanab, who was teaching school at Kanab. In 1901 Mr. and Mrs. Fuller came to Cedar City and attended the old B .N. S. for three years, after which they attended at-tended the University of Utah at Salt Lake City. From 1906 until they came to Cedar City in 1914, Mr. Fuller owned and operated ranches in Uintah county. Although he has a number of nephews ne-phews and nieces residing in the state, Mr. Fuller's onlv immpriintP survivor Is his widow, since he and Mrs. Fuller had no children and all his brothers and sisters preceeded him in death. Funeral services will be held In the First Ward chapel Sunduy at 12:15 p. m. a |