Marjorie Fuller

Marjorie Louise (Huntsberger) Fuller It is with great sadness that the family of Marjorie Louise (Huntsberger) Fuller announces her death, on Wednesday, September 30, 2020, as a result of renal failure. Marge was born in Greensburg, Pennsylvania, in 1926, to Vernon Lynn Huntsberger and Clara Adeline (Stephens) Huntsberger. She grew up in Pennsylvania, graduating from Muhlenburg High School in Reading in 1944. She attended Albright College, in Reading, and then Bethany College, in West Virginia, for a year before heading to Hartford, Connecticut, to work in a hospital during the final months of World War II. While still in high school, she met Fred H. Fuller, also of Reading, whom she would later marry, in 1947, and with whom she would have five children. While Fred was a graduate student and then a young engineer, they moved their growing family from Pennsylvania to West Virginia to Florida to Connecticut and to New York, before settling in Ridgewood, New Jersey, where four of their children graduated from high school. As the children left for college, Marjorie became a saleswoman at Lord & Taylor in Paramus. She and Fred subsequently moved to Maryland, where she worked as a claims clerk for GEICO Insurance in Chevy Chase. However, she and Fred were divorced in 1971. In 1973, when her youngest child, Robert, left home, Marjorie decided to move closer to her roots in Pennsylvania. She worked for Lederle Labs while living in Hatboro, where she developed a close and caring relationship with her neighbor, Martin Maliner. When Lederle moved her department to New Jersey, she relocated to Bloomfield, where she then established many new friendships. After retiring, her life continued with moves to Newark, Delaware; Kalamazoo, Michigan (where her daughter Barbara lived and worked); and Midlothian, Virginia, before settling into a retirement home, Paul Spring, in Alexandria, Virginia (near her eldest son Rick and his wife Sue). As she expressed a number of times, she led a wonderful life with great travels. Over thirty years, Marjorie visited six continents (all except Antarctica). She explored Europe extensively. An enthusiastic and skilled photographer, Marjorie had a particular passion for wildflowers, about which she gave professional presentations illustrated with numerous photographs she made throughout decades of wandering all sorts of wilderness areas as well as notable gardens. In addition to travel and photography, Marjorie enjoyed painting, in both oil and watercolor, amateur theatrics, Broadway shows, music, museums and, of course, her children. She even tried her hand at acting, but she opted, instead, to raise a family, which curtailed any serious pursuit of such. While living in New Jersey, in both the 1960s and 1980s, she took advantage of New York City’s proximity, especially appreciating the Metropolitan Museum of Art. While in Bloomfield, she served as an usher at a local playhouse in nearby Montclair. Marjorie was exceptionally proud of her five children, all of whom survive her, and their accomplishments: Fredrick Henry, Jr., Alexandria, VA; Mark Stephen Fuller, Longmeadow, MA; Dr. Barbara Leigh Fuller-Hale, Maynard, MA; Dr. Michael Anthony Fuller, Irvine, CA; and Dr. Robert Lynn Fuller, Richmond, VA. She is also survived by five grandchildren and ten greatgrandchildren, and by her older brother, Dr. James R. Huntsberger. She was predeceased by her oldest brother, Professor David V. Huntsberger, and Fred Fuller Senior.