Faye Fuller Ebner

Later in life, she married Dick Ebner and they traveled domestically and internationally together and they thoroughly enjoyed learning about people and places everywhere. She made lasting friendships wherever she went. The photos and stories of her adventures from these travels were always captivating. She lived each moment to the fullest and took advantage of every opportunity to learn something new or meet a new person.

Faye was an active member of St. Matthew’s Episcopal Church in San Mateo, California. She participated in St. Catherine’s Section, arranged flowers with the altar guild, and worked in the church’s thrift shop. She treasured her church family. She contributed to numerous cultural and educational groups, among them Turnstile Thrift Shop benefiting children and the Burlingame Music Club. Her hobbies included golfing, swimming, listening to opera and classical music, and socializing and staying in touch with family and friends.

Faye loved attending events centered around the arts and international life and attended many operas, symphonies, ballets, and plays in the San Francisco Bay Area over the years. She frequented art museums locally and when traveling and collected and appreciated framed art. She loved fine dining, was an excellent cook and entertained often in her home. She loved to dance and dress up and go “out on the town” or to a social event.

Faye was especially fond of the ocean, resort vacationing, and cruises. She swam with the dolphins in Mexico, snorkeled in the Great Barrier Reef, the Caribbean, Hawaii and Mexico. She appreciated the beauty of nature, loved to garden and especially loved flowers…planting and raising them, arranging and just looking at them in her home.

She had a good memory for people and places and kept current on what was happening in people’s lives. She always had a word of kindly advice or encouragement for people she knew and met because she thought people should live up to their potential (work hard and don’t give up).

Faye dedicated her life to being in touch with friends and family. In October 2012, Faye left her beautiful Bay Area and moved to Corvallis, Oregon to be closer to family. She was included in many family events during the brief time she lived in Corvallis and enjoyed being with her daughters and their husbands, all her grandchildren and great grandchildren.

Faye was preceded in death by her parents Ward and Ferne Fuller; her brother Phil and sisters Marilyn and Patty; first husband Lee Godshall and second husband Dick Ebner. Faye was survived by and will be sorely missed by her daughters and their husbands, Krista and Bruce LaSorella of Tacoma, Ferne and Mark Simendinger of Corvallis, her step-daughter Bette Steacy and husband Vince of Somers Point, New Jersey, her four granddaughters and seven great grandchildren.

Faye will be laid to rest in a private internment at Parkview Cemetery in New Plymouth, Idaho. A private family service is being planned during September in Corvallis.

In lieu of flowers, memorial donations are suggested to Burlingame Music Club Scholarship Fund or other charity of your choice.

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