Joseph B. Fuller Jr., 79, of Pittsburgh died Jan. 30 in Carmel Valley, Calif.

Born Sept. 14, 1928, in New Jersey, he lived in the Pittsburgh and Butler area all of his life.

A graduate of Mount Lebanon High School and Slippery Rock University, he was a substitute teacher in the Hampton area, and he also worked in the automobile industry.

Mr. Fuller served in the Navy.

He loved golf and traveling, and spent the past two years in Carmel Valley playing golf and working part-time as a course ranger.

Surviving are his two brothers, Frank Fuller of Pittsburgh and Robert Fuller of Chicago; six children, Sharon Kropko of Vermont, Cynthia Baer of Gibsonia, Rebecca Butterworth, and Randy Fuller, both of Carmel Valley, Calif., and Scott Fuller, and Janna Fuller, both of Butler; 10 grandchildren; and four great-grandchildren.

<B>FULLER</B> — Family services for Joseph B. Fuller Jr., who died Tuesday, Jan. 30, 2007, will be later.