Funeral services for retired nurse and coal miner’s daughter, June Guthrie Fuller, who died, Tuesday will be at 11am Saturday, April 2 at Peck Funeral Home, Hartselle, Alabama. Burial will follow at Hartselle City Cemetery. Visitation is from 6pm to 8pm Friday night.
Born May 5, 1918 at Galloway mining camp, Carbon Hill, Alabama, June was the sixth of thirteen children of Dell and Kate Johnson Guthrie. She moved to Morgan County in 1938 to attend nursing training at the old Benevolent Hospital, precursor to Decatur General, and in 1940 married farmer Robert Herman Fuller of the Gum Springs community. Mrs. Fuller worked at Hartselle Hospital and for the late Dr. Harold Blanton during a thirty-plus year career. Following retirement in 1983, she regularly visited friends and family in their homes and in nursing homes.
She is preceded in death by her husband, parents, brothers Walter, Clarence “Bo”, Walker, and J.W. Guthrie and by sisters Clara McGough, Ruby Morrow, Evelyn Williams, Helen McGough, Maxine Boles, and Willodean Barnett.
Mrs. Fuller is survived by sisters Merita Evans of Oakman, and Barbara Collins of Robertsdale and by numerous nieces and nephews. She is also survived by: daughters, Laura Tapscott (Marlon) and Sandra Seibert (Tommy) of Hartselle; sons, Robert Luther Fuller (Beverly) of Broken Arrow, Oklahoma and Tommy Fuller of Charlotte, North Carolina; grandchildren, Lasanna Holmes, Melissa Robison (Russell), Myron Tapscott (Terri), Steve Seibert (Maria), Leanna Tennyson (Jeff), and Lana Tew (Brandon) of Morgan County, and Robert Seibert (Monya) of Hayesville, NC. Mrs. Fuller is survived by seventeen great-grandchildren and ten great-great grandchildren.
Mrs. Fuller enjoyed fishing and gardening but her love was for her family, her Lord, and her church. Donations to the First Methodist Church of Hartselle where she was a member for sixty-four years would be an honor to her memory. The family wishes to express their thanks for the love and care provided by Mrs. Essie Harris, Kimberly Lewis, Pam Grisham, Terri Tapscott and staff of Hospice of North Alabama during Mrs. Fuller’s season of decline.
