Charles F.     Fulkerson

Charles F. Fulkerson, 90, a prominent business and civic leader, died July 21 at Waterbury Hospital after a short illness.

He was the father of Charles E. Fulkerson, Jr, of Newtown.

Instrumental in the early design and manufacture of aerators for kitchen faucets, Mr Fulkerson was founder, chairman, and president of Waterbury Pressed Metal Corporation from 1948 to 1968. In addition to aerators, the company fabricated and assembled a wide array of parts and products for the cosmetics, watch, and food industries.

A lifelong Republican, Mr Fulkerson was a former Waterbury city alderman. Born December 26, 1910, in Chillicoth, Mo., Mr Fulkerson moved to Waterbury in 1933 after graduating from Massachusetts Institute of Technology with a mechanical engineering degree. He married the late Elizabeth (Nuhn) Fulkerson in 1936 and the couple and their four children lived in Waterbury until 1960 when the family moved to Roxbury.

After moving to Roxbury, he was elected chairman of the Board of Education and also served as chairman of the Roxbury Historic District.

Mr Fulkerson was a resident of Southbury’s East Hill Woods at the time of his death.

He is survived by three other children, Mary F. Hamilton of Santa Cruz, Calif., Martha F. Matheu of Roxbury, and Heide F. Pianka of New Britain; their spouses, Thomas Hamilton, Robert Matheu, Jone Fulkerson, and Marian Pianka; six grandchildren, Kirsten Garrard, Kara Cadagan, Robert Matheu, III, Katherine Matheu, Elizabeth J. Fulkerson, and Charles E. Fulkerson, III; and one great-grandson, James Cadagan.

In lieu of flowers, the family requests that donations be made in Mr Fulkerson’s memory to MIT (Fulkerson Memorial, Recording Secretary, MIT, Treasurer, 238 Main St, Cambridge, MA 02142), or the Waterbury Hospital Memorial Fund, 64 Robbins Street, Waterbury, CT 06708.

A Memorial Service will be announced for a later date. Arrangements are by Carpino Funeral Home, 750 Main Street South, Southbury.

The Newtown Bee         July 27, 2001