Richard Howard Bellinger Fuller

Richard Howard Bellinger Fuller died September 30, 2024, aged 89 years. Richard was born in Hinsdale, Massachusetts to Everett and Myrtle (née Bellinger) Fuller in 1935. At the age of eight, he traveled with his mother and four of his six siblings by train to Monterey, CA where his father was supporting the war effort as a civilian army employee overseeing the construction of Fort Ord. After the war, the family settled in Berkeley where Richard attended and graduated from Berkeley High School. While at Berkeley High, he met the love of his life and future wife, Shirley. Richard and Shirley were married for 50 years, until her death in 2005. With Shirley, Richard had two sons, Gregory and Christopher, who survived him, and a grandson, John, who died in 2011.

Richard worked in data processing for Moore Business Forms for over 40 years, in California and then in Texas. He retired from Moore in 1992, and returned to California where he lived in Foresthill and then Auburn until his death. Richard will be buried with Shirley at the Sunset View Cemetery in El Cerrito, California in a private family service to be held at a later date.

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