Frances Fuller. Fraces died on November 8, 2009.
Her obituary: Margaret Frances Fran Fuller was called home to be with the Lord in the early morning hours of November the 8th. Born in Fulton County on April 20, 1940, to the late Curtis Melvin Fuller and Hazel Frances Shumate Fuller she spent most of her life in and around Marietta, Georgia, graduating from Sprayberry High School in 1958. From there she attended Reinhardt College and later Oglethorpe University where she studied Accounting. In the early 1960's she worked for an Atlanta modeling agency. In 1964 she married the now deceased William Dorsey Grist, Sr. of Mount Vernon, Georgia and had two sons, Dorsey and Melvin. Fran's professional career included 10 years of service with the State of Georgia in the Fiscal Services Division from 1973-1983, Editor of a small town newspaper - The Clay County Progress - in Hayesville, NC in the early 1980's and several years with Crawford Long Hospital, Boys & Girls Club of America and various accounting/data entry jobs throughout the Atlanta area until her retirement in 2002. Her passion was spending time with grandchildren Cassidy, Mason, Leila and Isaac, along with her many nieces/nephews and grand nieces/nephews. Her love and interest in them occupied much of her thought and time. She was a very creative person with hobbies including photography, making bookmarks, three dimensional pictures, crochet blankets and many other arts and crafts. Ms. Fuller's arrangements are being handled by Georgia Memorial Park Funeral Home located at 2000 Cobb Parkway SE, Marietta, Georgia. The family will receive visitors Tuesday November 10, from 6:00pm - 8:00pm with the funeral service and subsequent internment at 2:00pm November 11th. Her surviving family members include a brother, Leonard Fuller of Ellijay, and sister, Donna Fuller of Marietta, along with sons Dorsey and Melvin Grist of Lilburn, Georgia and Higdon, Alabama, respectively. Other family members include four grandchildren, six nieces/nephews and many grand nieces/nephews. She was predeceased by brother Jim Fuller and sister Dorothy Fuller Nuckolls. Those desiring may express condolences at www.mem.com.
[Atlanta Journal-Constitution on Nov. 10, 2009]
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