Joan Fullinwider Weller

Her mother, Sabine Lansing Fullinwider, was the only daughter of Carrie Bagley and Stuart D. Lansing, President of Bagley and Sewall Company, a paper machine manufacturing company. Sabine married Edwin Gaines Fullinwider on September 10, 1923, when he was a lieutenant in the U. S. Navy.

When Joan was born, her father was in Europe on the American Fencing Team, competing in the 1924 Olympic Games. The Fullinwider family lived in various places while Edwin was on duty as an officer in the navy, and they were in Hawaii on December 7, 1941 when the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor, precipitating World War II. They evacuated the island of Oahu at night on a ship with lights out to return to the mainland.

Joan, then became a student at Bishop's School, commuting every day between Coronado and La Jolla. She attended Stanford University and earned a Bachelor's Degree in Science.

She married Arthur R. Weller in 1946 in Palo Alto. Arthur was a son of O.A. Weller, a naval officer whose family had also been living in Coronado. Arthur and Joan danced their first dance at the Hotel Del Coronado. After graduating from Stanford Arthur served in the Navy on an underwater demolition team and as an officer in the Pacific during World War II, He later pursued a thirty year career as a geologist for the Shell Oil Company. He retired in Valley Center to an avocado ranch.

In the 1960s, Joan was a college counselor and tennis coach at Chadwick School. After moving to Valley Center, Joan was active in the community, a member of the Garden Club, an excellent tennis player and belonged to St. Frances Church in Pauma Valley. She sang in the choir, served on the altar guild and gave private English classes at the church for many years.

Surviving Mrs. Weller are her two daughters, Gail and Suzanne and three grandchildren.