Published in News Tribune (Tacoma) on September 14, 2011
EDITH FULLER REESE 1915-2011 Edith Fuller Reese was born April 17, 1915 on a dry farm at Stone in Southern Idaho the second daughter and third child of Amos Levi and Agnes Park Brockbank Fuller. Her parents were pioneers of Utah with grandparents crossing the plains in the 1840s and 1850s. After a short time on the dry farm the family moved to Snowville, Utah, where they lived on a few acres of irrigated land and the children went to community schools. In 1925 the family moved to Smithfield, Utah, where the children were given the opportunity to attend high school. By this time there were five children in the family but the mother's health was poor and she died in 1927. Marian, an older sister, was also ill and died in the 1930s. After graduation from high school Edith worked one winter in Salt Lake City and in 1935 married Perry Leland Reese whose father happened to be the town marshal of Smithfield. The law was part of her family for her grandfather, Isaac Brockbank served for a time as sheriff of Salt Lake County, Utah and later twice as deputy sheriff. Perry's health was also poor having suffered illness during the flu epidemic of 1918 when both his mother, Jennie P. Anderson Reese and his sister Ruby Audrey Reese succumbed to the world wide pandemic. After Perry received training as a watch maker he secured employment at Hill Army Airfield and in 1941 took a job at McChord Army Air Field near Tacoma when Edith and their two sons James Rex and Gary joined him the next year. Perry worked in the defense industry during the war at both McChord and Fort Lewis and after the war secured a job with the Boeing Airplane Company where he worked until 1953 when he died leaving a young widow and three children, daughter Elaine joined the family in 1945 and became the apple of her daddies eye. Edith had been working off and on for a friend but decided to go back to school to obtain a teaching degree. She attended classes at Pacific Lutheran College and in 1956 took her family to Provo where she completed her degree in 1958. She also attended school in Oregon and was invited to attend the Merrill Palmer School in Detroit one winter. She returned to Tacoma and obtained employment at the newly established Iva Alice Mann Junior High School where she worked in the home economics department and later as the library lady at the Hillside School also in the Clover Park School District after receiving additional training at the University of Puget Sound. After a twenty year career in teaching she retired to an older home in Steilacoom where the house and garden were improved to her specifications. She died at the age of 96 on September 9, 2011 after short stays in local hospitals. Always active in The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints she served as a Relief Society President, three times as a Young Women President, taught Sunday School and was active in the Young Single Adult program in Tacoma. She loved working in her garden and pursued many hobbies. She painted in oils, quilted, carved in wood and during the last few years she knitted caps for surgical cases at Mary Bridge Hospital and had recently finished another twenty caps for the children. She had wanted to live as long as her grandmother, Mary Ann Park Brockbank, who was the last 1847 pioneer of Utah but came two years short. She is survived by her brother Carl B. Fuller and his children Russell, Brent, and Pamela Gay Smith and their families. By the children of her sister Jean Fuller Jessop, Howard Lynn, Joanne and Mary Jean and their families, and by the son of her eldest brother, Robert Fuller. She is also survived by her three children; James Rex Reese and his wife Teri , Gary Fuller Reese and Linda Elaine Jackson and her two sons; James Richard Jackson, his wife Brooke and their two daughters Michelle and Lena and her second son, Gary William Jackson, his wife Naomi and their daughter Peri. There will be a grave side service and Mountain View Memorial Park on Wednesday, this week, at 2:30 and viewing on Tuesday in the afternoon at the Mountain View Memorial Park funeral home.
Published in News Tribune (Tacoma) on September 14, 2011
EDITH FULLER REESE 1915-2011 Edith Fuller Reese was born April 17, 1915 on a dry farm at Stone in Southern Idaho the second daughter and third child of Amos Levi and Agnes Park Brockbank Fuller. Her parents were pioneers of Utah with grandparents crossing the plains in the 1840s and 1850s. After a short time on the dry farm the family moved to Snowville, Utah, where they lived on a few acres of irrigated land and the children went to community schools. In 1925 the family moved to Smithfield, Utah, where the children were given the opportunity to attend high school. By this time there were five children in the family but the mother's health was poor and she died in 1927. Marian, an older sister, was also ill and died in the 1930s. After graduation from high school Edith worked one winter in Salt Lake City and in 1935 married Perry Leland Reese whose father happened to be the town marshal of Smithfield. The law was part of her family for her grandfather, Isaac Brockbank served for a time as sheriff of Salt Lake County, Utah and later twice as deputy sheriff. Perry's health was also poor having suffered illness during the flu epidemic of 1918 when both his mother, Jennie P. Anderson Reese and his sister Ruby Audrey Reese succumbed to the world wide pandemic. After Perry received training as a watch maker he secured employment at Hill Army Airfield and in 1941 took a job at McChord Army Air Field near Tacoma when Edith and their two sons James Rex and Gary joined him the next year. Perry worked in the defense industry during the war at both McChord and Fort Lewis and after the war secured a job with the Boeing Airplane Company where he worked until 1953 when he died leaving a young widow and three children, daughter Elaine joined the family in 1945 and became the apple of her daddies eye. Edith had been working off and on for a friend but decided to go back to school to obtain a teaching degree. She attended classes at Pacific Lutheran College and in 1956 took her family to Provo where she completed her degree in 1958. She also attended school in Oregon and was invited to attend the Merrill Palmer School in Detroit one winter. She returned to Tacoma and obtained employment at the newly established Iva Alice Mann Junior High School where she worked in the home economics department and later as the library lady at the Hillside School also in the Clover Park School District after receiving additional training at the University of Puget Sound. After a twenty year career in teaching she retired to an older home in Steilacoom where the house and garden were improved to her specifications. She died at the age of 96 on September 9, 2011 after short stays in local hospitals. Always active in The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints she served as a Relief Society President, three times as a Young Women President, taught Sunday School and was active in the Young Single Adult program in Tacoma. She loved working in her garden and pursued many hobbies. She painted in oils, quilted, carved in wood and during the last few years she knitted caps for surgical cases at Mary Bridge Hospital and had recently finished another twenty caps for the children. She had wanted to live as long as her grandmother, Mary Ann Park Brockbank, who was the last 1847 pioneer of Utah but came two years short. She is survived by her brother Carl B. Fuller and his children Russell, Brent, and Pamela Gay Smith and their families. By the children of her sister Jean Fuller Jessop, Howard Lynn, Joanne and Mary Jean and their families, and by the son of her eldest brother, Robert Fuller. She is also survived by her three children; James Rex Reese and his wife Teri , Gary Fuller Reese and Linda Elaine Jackson and her two sons; James Richard Jackson, his wife Brooke and their two daughters Michelle and Lena and her second son, Gary William Jackson, his wife Naomi and their daughter Peri. There will be a grave side service and Mountain View Memorial Park on Wednesday, this week, at 2:30 and viewing on Tuesday in the afternoon at the Mountain View Memorial Park funeral home.
Published in News Tribune (Tacoma) on September 14, 2011
Published in News Tribune (Tacoma) on September 14, 2011
EDITH FULLER REESE 1915-2011 Edith Fuller Reese was born April 17, 1915 on a dry farm at Stone in Southern Idaho the second daughter and third child of Amos Levi and Agnes Park Brockbank Fuller. Her parents were pioneers of Utah with grandparents crossing the plains in the 1840s and 1850s. After a short time on the dry farm the family moved to Snowville, Utah, where they lived on a few acres of irrigated land and the children went to community schools. In 1925 the family moved to Smithfield, Utah, where the children were given the opportunity to attend high school. By this time there were five children in the family but the mother's health was poor and she died in 1927. Marian, an older sister, was also ill and died in the 1930s. After graduation from high school Edith worked one winter in Salt Lake City and in 1935 married Perry Leland Reese whose father happened to be the town marshal of Smithfield. The law was part of her family for her grandfather, Isaac Brockbank served for a time as sheriff of Salt Lake County, Utah and later twice as deputy sheriff. Perry's health was also poor having suffered illness during the flu epidemic of 1918 when both his mother, Jennie P. Anderson Reese and his sister Ruby Audrey Reese succumbed to the world wide pandemic. After Perry received training as a watch maker he secured employment at Hill Army Airfield and in 1941 took a job at McChord Army Air Field near Tacoma when Edith and their two sons James Rex and Gary joined him the next year. Perry worked in the defense industry during the war at both McChord and Fort Lewis and after the war secured a job with the Boeing Airplane Company where he worked until 1953 when he died leaving a young widow and three children, daughter Elaine joined the family in 1945 and became the apple of her daddies eye. Edith had been working off and on for a friend but decided to go back to school to obtain a teaching degree. She attended classes at Pacific Lutheran College and in 1956 took her family to Provo where she completed her degree in 1958. She also attended school in Oregon and was invited to attend the Merrill Palmer School in Detroit one winter. She returned to Tacoma and obtained employment at the newly established Iva Alice Mann Junior High School where she worked in the home economics department and later as the library lady at the Hillside School also in the Clover Park School District after receiving additional training at the University of Puget Sound. After a twenty year career in teaching she retired to an older home in Steilacoom where the house and garden were improved to her specifications. She died at the age of 96 on September 9, 2011 after short stays in local hospitals. Always active in The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints she served as a Relief Society President, three times as a Young Women President, taught Sunday School and was active in the Young Single Adult program in Tacoma. She loved working in her garden and pursued many hobbies. She painted in oils, quilted, carved in wood and during the last few years she knitted caps for surgical cases at Mary Bridge Hospital and had recently finished another twenty caps for the children. She had wanted to live as long as her grandmother, Mary Ann Park Brockbank, who was the last 1847 pioneer of Utah but came two years short. She is survived by her brother Carl B. Fuller and his children Russell, Brent, and Pamela Gay Smith and their families. By the children of her sister Jean Fuller Jessop, Howard Lynn, Joanne and Mary Jean and their families, and by the son of her eldest brother, Robert Fuller. She is also survived by her three children; James Rex Reese and his wife Teri , Gary Fuller Reese and Linda Elaine Jackson and her two sons; James Richard Jackson, his wife Brooke and their two daughters Michelle and Lena and her second son, Gary William Jackson, his wife Naomi and their daughter Peri. There will be a grave side service and Mountain View Memorial Park on Wednesday, this week, at 2:30 and viewing on Tuesday in the afternoon at the Mountain View Memorial Park funeral home.
Published in News Tribune (Tacoma) on September 14, 2011
EDITH FULLER REESE 1915-2011 Edith Fuller Reese was born April 17, 1915 on a dry farm at Stone in Southern Idaho the second daughter and third child of Amos Levi and Agnes Park Brockbank Fuller. Her parents were pioneers of Utah with grandparents crossing the plains in the 1840s and 1850s. After a short time on the dry farm the family moved to Snowville, Utah, where they lived on a few acres of irrigated land and the children went to community schools. In 1925 the family moved to Smithfield, Utah, where the children were given the opportunity to attend high school. By this time there were five children in the family but the mother's health was poor and she died in 1927. Marian, an older sister, was also ill and died in the 1930s. After graduation from high school Edith worked one winter in Salt Lake City and in 1935 married Perry Leland Reese whose father happened to be the town marshal of Smithfield. The law was part of her family for her grandfather, Isaac Brockbank served for a time as sheriff of Salt Lake County, Utah and later twice as deputy sheriff. Perry's health was also poor having suffered illness during the flu epidemic of 1918 when both his mother, Jennie P. Anderson Reese and his sister Ruby Audrey Reese succumbed to the world wide pandemic. After Perry received training as a watch maker he secured employment at Hill Army Airfield and in 1941 took a job at McChord Army Air Field near Tacoma when Edith and their two sons James Rex and Gary joined him the next year. Perry worked in the defense industry during the war at both McChord and Fort Lewis and after the war secured a job with the Boeing Airplane Company where he worked until 1953 when he died leaving a young widow and three children, daughter Elaine joined the family in 1945 and became the apple of her daddies eye. Edith had been working off and on for a friend but decided to go back to school to obtain a teaching degree. She attended classes at Pacific Lutheran College and in 1956 took her family to Provo where she completed her degree in 1958. She also attended school in Oregon and was invited to attend the Merrill Palmer School in Detroit one winter. She returned to Tacoma and obtained employment at the newly established Iva Alice Mann Junior High School where she worked in the home economics department and later as the library lady at the Hillside School also in the Clover Park School District after receiving additional training at the University of Puget Sound. After a twenty year career in teaching she retired to an older home in Steilacoom where the house and garden were improved to her specifications. She died at the age of 96 on September 9, 2011 after short stays in local hospitals. Always active in The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints she served as a Relief Society President, three times as a Young Women President, taught Sunday School and was active in the Young Single Adult program in Tacoma. She loved working in her garden and pursued many hobbies. She painted in oils, quilted, carved in wood and during the last few years she knitted caps for surgical cases at Mary Bridge Hospital and had recently finished another twenty caps for the children. She had wanted to live as long as her grandmother, Mary Ann Park Brockbank, who was the last 1847 pioneer of Utah but came two years short. She is survived by her brother Carl B. Fuller and his children Russell, Brent, and Pamela Gay Smith and their families. By the children of her sister Jean Fuller Jessop, Howard Lynn, Joanne and Mary Jean and their families, and by the son of her eldest brother, Robert Fuller. She is also survived by her three children; James Rex Reese and his wife Teri , Gary Fuller Reese and Linda Elaine Jackson and her two sons; James Richard Jackson, his wife Brooke and their two daughters Michelle and Lena and her second son, Gary William Jackson, his wife Naomi and their daughter Peri. There will be a grave side service and Mountain View Memorial Park on Wednesday, this week, at 2:30 and viewing on Tuesday in the afternoon at the Mountain View Memorial Park funeral home.
Published in News Tribune (Tacoma) on September 14, 2011
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