Elbert D. Fulgham

Elbert D. Fulgham

Elbert D. Fulgham passed away suddenly at his home on May 18, 2018, leaving two families bereft of a wonderful man.

Elbert was born to Leo and Lottie Fulgham on Oct. 8, 1928, one of twin sons and the eldest of five siblings. The Fulgham family moved from Emmett, Idaho to Bonners Ferry in the late 1930s where they settled and farmed in District Five.

After high school, Elbert enlisted in the Army and served in post-War occupied Germany and later in the Korean Conflict. Once discharged, Elbert returned home and married the love of his life, Dixie Richards. Their life then embraced travel and different locales when Elbert joined the Border patrol, where he worked until his early retirement in the 1980s when they moved back to Bonners Ferry.

His retirement wasn’t sedentary as he and Dixie loved to travel with their camper and usually at least one dog in tow as they went from Alaska to the Southwest, the West Coast and points in between. Elbert liked to fish and often enjoyed wetting a line with his brothers up Round Prairie. He and Dixie loved their garden, flowers and square dancing.

Elbert will be remembered with love as a warm, kind and good man; loved by all, one-of-a-kind, a mentor, surrogate dad to many nieces and nephews and a go-to guy.

Elbert Fulgham is survived by his wife, Dixie Richards Fulgham, his brother, Ron (Carrie) Fulgham, his brother, Terry (Diane) Fulgham, and many sisters and brothers-in-law, nieces, nephews, grand-nieces and nephews, and friends.

Elbert was preceded in death by his parents, Leo and Lottie Fulgham, his brother, Delbert Fulgham, brother Lyle Fulgham and his “sis,” Joyce Fulgham Trueblood.

A Memorial Service and Celebration of Life will be held at 11 a.m. Saturday, June 16, 2018, at the Bonners Ferry Fairgrounds in the Exhibit Hall.