Obituary
Edwin Owen Fulton left us on Tuesday afternoon, November 6, 2007.
It was unexpected but God doesn't let us know his plans and maybe he needed someone to advise on recycling.
Recycling was Owen's true passion.
He began recycling at about the age of 10, going around his neighborhood, picking up pieces of metal and wire in his little red wagon and selling it to a neighbor "junk man."
When Owen married Jane Lowrey, he was following in his father's path as a carpenter but his heart was always in scrap.
He founded Fulton Supply and Recycling, Inc. in the early 1970s and today there is a recycling yard in Denton, Gainesville, and a retail store in Denton.
He employed over 50 people and considered them his family.
In 1997, Owen's peers in the Gulf Coast Region of the Institute of Recycling Industries, recognized him and his work for the industry with their highest award, the Israel Proler Award.
Before work consumed Owen, he was a Boy Scout, an Eagle as well as Order of the Arrow.
He attended the Jamboree in Colorado where he traded cockle burs to Boy Scouts from Northern states, proclaiming them to be porcupine eggs.
He came home from Colorado with more spending money than he had left with.
It was a fore-telling of his future.
Owen Fulton was a member of the Lions Club for over 40 years, working tirelessly in their concession stand at football games and on other projects.
He was on the Board of Directors of the Gulf Coast Region of ISRI.
He traded internationally and went to China on a couple of occasions.
He was a very visible figure on the Great Wall of China in his western hat and boots and his black leather jacket and jeans -- his standard off-work attire.
He has many Chinese friends who knew his word was his bond.
For the past 25 years, Owen has been very involved with the Denton County Livestock Association and its Youth Fair.
He was a director of the Association and also had been a director of the Blue Ribbon Club, a support association for the Youth Fair.
As a former FFA member, he supported the Youth Fair and its work with the youth of Denton County.
Memorials may be made to either the Blue Ribbon Club, of the DCLA, at P.O. Box 697, Denton, TX 76202.
Owen will be missed by many around the world
Edwin Owen Fulton was born December 12, 1944, in Denton and died November 6, 2007.
On September 7, 1963, he and Jane Lowrey eloped to McKinney, Texas, and were married for 44 years, (thanks to a 2nd house and farm in another county.), he is survived by his wife Jane Fulton, of Denton.
They have 3 children, D'Lynn Ewing and husband, Joe, David Fulton and wife, Angela, and Suzanne Fulton and Todd Terry.
He had 6 grandchildren:
Christopher, Joshua, and Evan Ewing; Logan and Larissa Fulton; and Taylor Terry.
He is survived by brothers, Joe L. Fulton and wife, Mary, and Tom Fulton and Emilie, and brother-in-law, Gerard Lowrey and wife, Ruthie.
He was preceded in death by his father, Richard O. Fulton (1957) and his mother, Vodie Fulton (2003), and older brother Richard L. Fulton (1970).
Visitation will be at Mulkey-Mason Funeral Home 705 N. Loucst, Denton,
on Friday, November 9, from 6 to 8.
Services will be at 11 a.m., Saturday, November 10, at First United Methodist Church on 201 South Locust, with Rev. John Peel,
and Rev. Matt Gaston, officiating.
Burial will follow in the Roselawn Memorial Park.
Pall bearers will be CK Ewing, Joe Ewing, James Ewing, Jay Fulton, Carmelo Sanchez, Ines Saldana, Antonio Saldana, and Tom Shaw.
Honorary pall bears are B. J. Kiser, Billy Kiser, George Watkins, Gary Skeen, Charlie Davis, Jerry Kelsoe, and Jerry Eastsup and friends among the scrap industry.
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