Funeral services for Ella Mae Fuller, 96, of Bonham, TX will be held at 1:00 PM Saturday, July 11, 2015 in Wise Funeral Home Chapel. Elder T.B. Yarbrough will officiate. Burial will follow at Gates Hill Cemetery in Bonham. Ella Mae passed away Monday morning at Seven Oaks Nursing Center.
Ella Mae was born on August 27, 1918 in Ladonia, TX, the daughter of Robert Stephens and Cordie Jackson Stephens. She attended school in Ladonia and attended the Full Gospel Church in Ladonia and the Bradford AME in Bonham. She married Paul Phillip Fuller in 1936. Ella Mae enjoyed baking chocolate pies, playing Croquet, and loved music and Walker Texas Ranger. She was preceded in death by her husband, Paul Phillip Fuller, 2 sons, Kenneth Don and Robert Fuller, 1 daughter, Martha Faye Smith, and a brother, Ben Ed Stephens.
She is survived by:
Sons: Paul Leamon Fuller of Mesquite
Billy Harold and wife, Lessie Fuller of Bonham
Joel Phillip Fuller of Bonham
William Edward Fuller of Dallas
Daughters: Shirley Ann Massey of Dallas
Sandra and husband, Charles Ray Alberty of Dallas
Peggy Joyce Fuller of Bonham
Paulette Fuller of Seattle, Washington
Wanda Mae Boyd of Garland
Juanita Rebecca and husband, Bruce Yarbrough of Center
Sally Ann Robinson of DeSoto
45 grandchildren and a host of great grandchildren, great-great grandchildren, extended family, and friends.
The family will receive visitors following interment at First United Methodist Church 801 Star St., Bonham, TX 75418.