Jane Church Fuller

Jane Church Fuller, died of emaciation and advanced dementia at Salemtowne Retirement Community on Sunday, September 1, 2024, with her beloved elder son, David, by her side. She was 98.

She was born on August 11, 1926. Her father was the late W.E. Church, longtime Forsyth County Clerk of Superior Court and Probate Judge, widely respected and honored by the NC Bar. Her mother was the late wife Katherine Cahill Church, a renowned hostess, church circle leader, known for her warm Southern hospitality, delicious cooking, and irresistible baking. Jane was a graduate of Summit School, Salem Academy, and Salem College.

Following in her parents' footsteps, Jane was an accomplished artist, medical illustrator, sharp-eyed collector of art, antiques, and pottery, skilled crafter, award winning cook and gardener, hostess, advocate, organizer, champion, pianist, and writer. She generously shared her keen mind and considerable talents with her church, Centenary United Methodist, her neighborhood, and her community throughout her long life.

Jane married her artistic soulmate, the late Donald A. Fuller, in 1952 and was a devoted wife and an exceptional mother to their 2 sons, David and Dan.

Everyone who met Jane came to know her as a valued friend and giver of extremely thoughtful and uniquely appropriate gifts. Often, these were something that she had personally baked, cooked, crafted, written, or specially selected and wrapped for the recipient. Among Jane's countless friends around the world, are generations of the Page and Rice families whom Jane and Don got to know during their residence in Burlington, VT in the early 1950s. The bonds between these 3 families grew ever stronger throughout decades of Summers at the Fuller Family's Colchester Point Compound on the Vermont shores of Lake Champlain. Or, sailing Lake Champlain on the Page's 30' sloop, Westward Ho. Waterskiing behind the Rice's Prohibition era rum runner or waving at parade goers from a classic car or fire truck from the Roderick C. Rice Collection.

After more than 68 years of marriage, Jane lost her cherished husband, Don on February 1, 2021. Due to COVID, no service was held at the time of his passing.

Jane is survived by her son David and wife, Sondra of High Point, NC, step-grandson, Matthew E. and wife, Bugaa Mulkeen of Basel, Switzerland; son, Dan and wife Hassania and granddaughters Rita and Sofia Fuller of Falls Church, VA, as well as generations of Pages and Rices whom she loved as if they were her children and grandchildren and who loved her as if she were their mother or grandmother.

The Fuller Family is especially grateful to Jane's most faithful friends and correspondents to the end (in alphabetical order): Sarah Catron, Tauheedah "T" Freeman, April Grasty, Jane Mokrasch, Daniel Page and wife, Kirsi Savusalo, Guy Page and wife, Colette, Joel Page and wife, Donna Dupray, John Page and wife, Becky Bowen, Sarah Page and husband, Myles Danaher, Dave and Anne Rice, Heather Rice, Nancy Rice and husband, Paul Otemti, Rick Rice and wife, Lisa McCullough. They are a great blessing to us all and we treasure each and everyone to be family!

The Fuller Family will host a joint Celebration of Life for Donald A. and Jane C. Fuller at 2:00 pm EST, Saturday, November 9, 2024, in the Highland Presbyterian Church Activity Building at 2381 Cloverdale Ave. NW in Winston-Salem, NC. It was in this very hall that Cub Pack 722 and Scout Troop 722 shaped the lives of Don and Jane's sons as well as the sons and daughters of countless others through Scouting.

The bulk of Don and Jane's ashes will be scattered off the shores of their beloved Colchester Point Summer home on Lake Champlain, Vermont in a private Fuller, Page and Rice family ceremony next Summer. The remainder of their ashes will also be interred in the babbling brook beneath the Donald A. Fuller Memorial Bridge at Camp Raven Knob in Mount Airy, NC.

In lieu of flowers, the family requests that you honor Jane and Don Fuller by donating to uplift seniors and take elder care to a whole new level at Jane For Change, P. O. Box 5211 High Point, NC 27262. Jane For Change is a non-profit organization being formed to carry-on and pay forward Jane C. Fuller's legacy as a proactive elder ally and eldercare reformer.

To view Donald's obituary: https://www.legacy.com/us/obituaries/legacyremembers/donald-fuller-obituary?id=8027702