Bert Fuller
- Word was received here the latter part of the week that Bert Fuller, son of Douglas Fuller, who formerly lived here with his parents, had been badly burned at his home in Toledo, Ohio. His father immediately left for his bedside. Word came Saturday that he had passed away. His brother Ed., of Lowell, and sister, Mrs. Herm Purdy, of Hammond, left Sunday morning to attend the funeral services.
The following February 28, 1929, Lowell Tribune article appeared on page 1, column 3:
TELLS OF DEATH OF BERT FULLER
BADLY BURNED WHEN STOVE EXPLODES IN HIS RESIDENCE AT TOLEDO
Mention was made last week of the death of Bert Fuller at his home in Toledo, Ohio, from the effects of burns received a few days before his death. The house and contents were totally destroyed by fire. We take the following account of the accident from the Toledo, Ohio, Blade:Bert Fuller, 35, an employee of Ransom-Miller chicken ranch, Swanton, O., was burned seriously in his home on the ranch early Thursday when a coal stove exploded.
Mrs. Fuller and the children June, 7, and Kenenth, 5, in their night clothes, were forced to jump through a window to save their lives when the blaze spread through the building, a one-story structure.
Mr. Fuller was awakened about 3 A.M. by the smell of gas. When he opened the draft in the stove, the blast occurred. Although his underwear was enveloped in flames, Mr. Fuller awakened his family by shouting and ran outside.
After extinguishing the flames by rolling in the snow, Mr. Fuller got his machine out of the garage and took his wife and family to the home of a neighbor, Clarence Green, in the Grailey road, about a quarter of a mile from the ranch.
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