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Travis Fuller Obituary
Granville resident, 1st Lt. Travis J. Fuller, son of Joanne and David Fuller of Main Road, was killed in Iraq in a helicopter crash that killed 31 Americans, on January 26th. Travis graduated from Southwick Tolland High School in 1996 and was known to many people in Tolland.
1st Lt. Travis J. Fuller
1978-2005
GRANVILLE - U.S. Marine Corps 1st Lt. Travis J. Fuller, 26, died Wednesday January 26, 2005 in a CH-53 Helicopter crash in Iraq, during operations in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom. He was born in Springfield, grew up in Granville and graduated from Southwick-Tolland Regional High School in 1997. Travis was co-captain of the wrestling team and was a member of the cross-country team and Boys State. He graduated from Mass Maritime Academy where he also ran cross-country. Mass Maritime Academy will be renaming their September Invitational 5- mile Invitational Cross Country Race to the Travis J Fuller Cross Country Invitational. He was commissioned in June of 2001 and was based in Kaneohe Bay in Hawaii. He was also deployed in Cambodia, Thailand, North Korea, the Philippines, and Sri
Lanka. He leaves his parents, David and Joanne (Ayotte) Fuller of Granville, two sisters, Jennifer Francis and her husband Robert of Bowdoin, ME, and Rebecca Fuller and her wife, Patricia Grant of Roslindale; and his grandmothers, Jean Ayotte of Agawam, Marilyn Fuller of Granville, and Jean Jinks of Tolland. The Funeral Mass will be Monday at 12 Noon in St. John the Evangelist Church followed by committal services with Full Military Honors in the Massachusetts Veterans' Memorial Cemetery. Calling hours at the Agawam Curran-Jones Funeral Home will be Saturday 4-8 pm and Sunday 2-5 pm. In lieu of flowers, donations can be made to the Granville - Tolland Citizen's Scholarship Foundation for the Lt. Travis Fuller Memorial Scholarship, P.O. Box 215, Granville, MA 01034-0214.
Published in The Republican on 2/3/2005.
Memorial Scholarship Established: The family has announced it will set up a Lt. Travis Fuller Memorial Scholarship through the Granville-Tolland Citizen's Scholarship Foundation. Contributions should be made to the fund by sending a check tmade out to the GTSF and mailed to PO Box 214, Granville, MA 01034.
Click below for coverage of this tragic loss.
Mourners honor Marine: Feb. 8, 2004 Springfield Republic
Community response heartens Marine's kin, February 07, 2005, Springfield Republican
Hundreds remember Marine, Feburary 6, 2005, Springfield Republican
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