Andy 'Hap' Morton Fuller

Andy "Hap" M. Fuller LEXINGTON, Missouri -- Andy "Hap" Morton Fuller, 93, of Lexington, formerly of New Boston, Illinois, passed away on Thursday, November 6, 2014, at Lafayette Regional Health Center in Lexington. Military Honors by American Legion Post #121 will be held at 9:45 a.m. on Tuesday, November 11, 2014, at the Speer Funeral Home, 2502 S.E. 3rd St., Aledo, Illinois. Funeral Service will be held at 10 a.m. on November 11, 2014. Burial will take place in Eliza Creek Cemetery, Eliza, Illinois. Visitation will be held from 4 until 7 p.m. on Sunday, November 9, 2014, at the Walker-Nadler-Fuller Funeral Home, 1720 South Street, Lexington, Missouri 64067. Visitation will also be held from 5 until 7 p.m. on Monday, November 10, 2014, at the Speer Funeral Home in Aledo, Illinois. Memorials in Hap's memory may be made to the Lexington Food Pantry or the New Boston United Methodist Church. Andy was born on April 14, 1921, at Bay Island, Illinois, the son of Tim Leroy and Mildred Ireidah Markley Fuller. He married Connie Leona Hope at Paulsbo, Washington, they later divorced, and he married Marcella June Gronewald Carey at New Boston, Illinois. Hap was a U.S. Na...[more]

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Veteran of World War II. He had worked for the Corp of Engineers as a crane operator at Lock & Dam 17 & 18 on the Mississippi River. Hap also farmed most of his life. He was a member of the American Legion Post 60 at Lexington and the Masonic Lodge #0059 at New Boston, Illinois. Hap was a neighborhood favorite with the children (who called him "Happy") and also the adults. He could be seen fixing bikes, airing bike tires, or on his riding lawn mower either mowing grass or chopping leaves. Hap is survived by his children, Janet Wright and Steven E. Fuller, both of Lexington, Missouri, Steven Carey and wife, Charlene, of New Boston, Illinois, David Carey and wife, Barbara, of Wentzville, Missouri, and Penny Carey Dierickx of Muscatine, Iowa. There are 15 grandchildren; 19 great-grandchildren; and three great-great-grandchildren. He was preceded in death by his parents; his first wife, Connie; his wife, Marcella; a daughter, Christine; a brother, Cody Fuller; a sister, Edith Fuller Havemann Heerey; and a granddaughter, Christine McConohy.