Charles S. Fullmer

1924 - 2025

Charles S. Fullmer, longtime resident of Moreland, died at home of natural causes at the age of 101 on August 13, 2025.

He was born at home with the help of a midwife on a fine spring day in Salem, Idaho, April 26, 1924, to Solomon and Merle Grover Fullmer. His family soon moved to the Teton Basin where he remembered seeing his first train at age 4 while riding through the snow in the family horse drawn buggy. He began school in the two room school at Fox Creek, riding a horse to school bareback with his brother Garth. In 1934 his family moved to Osgood to farm, where he completed grade school, and first met a cute redhead by the name of Ardis Gibbs. He spent his summers hoeing beets and hauling hay on the Osgood farm. He graduated from Ammon High School in 1942, where he was a member of the football, basketball, boxing, track and softball teams.

In 1943 he joined the US Navy and became engaged to Ardis Gibbs. After naval training in Oklahoma, he married Ardis in the Salt Lake City Temple on May 8, 1944. They spent the first few months of their marriage in San Diego before he rode the USS Shipley Bay jeep carrier for six days to assignment at Ford Island, Pearl Harbor, Hawaii. Charles served as an aircraft mechanic and the third member of the flight crew on B-26 aircraft flying patrols.

After the war, he returned home and moved to Idaho Falls with Ardis and his newborn son, Brent. He worked as a mechanic at Browning Buick for a year, and then began farming, first in Osgood, then Ammon, then Jameston, and then to Roberts in 1954. After the potatoes were harvested each fall, Charles spent the winters working in the potato warehouse. After six years faming the Virginia Blackburn place in Roberts, he purchased 320 acres of sagebrush 13 miles northwest of Blackfoot and moved to Moreland in 1961, to move sprinkler pipe and raise potatoes, grain, hay and kids. After selling the Moreland farm in the 70s, Charles worked as a ranch foreman, sold real estate and drove truck for John Smith, Purina, and Miller Honey well into his eighth decade. Charles served as a counselor and bishop of the Moreland Third Ward.

His wife Ardis preceded him in death in 2001. Charles was married to Itha Hansen from 2003 until her death in 2018.

Charles is survived by his children, Brent (Chuck) Fullmer (Sandy) of Nashville, Tennessee, Mel Fullmer of Salt Lake City, Utah, Mike Fullmer (June) of Cascade, Idaho, and Julie White (Tim) of Hutchinson Island, Florida. He was preceded in death by his son Mark Fullmer. His progeny includes 9 grandchildren and 13 great grandchildren.

A Funeral Service will be held 2:00 pm Friday, August 22, 2025, at the Moreland LDS Church, 740 West 175 North, Blackfoot, Idaho. The family will visit with friends beginning at 12:30 pm. at the church. Interment will be in the Moreland Cemetery.