Growing up in Syracuse, George also spent summers with his family at the Thousand Islands on the Saint Lawrence River. He attended Syracuse University as a pre-med student. As a sophomore in 1944, he was drafted into the Army. After boot camp, he was sent to Syracuse University Medical School while he continued training with the Army. He was discharged from the Army in 1946 and received his MD in 1947. After two residencies he entered a practice in Syracuse.
When the Korean War started, he volunteered in the Air Force. He married Mary Agnes Enright just before he was stationed at a base in Goose Bay, Labrador. After his discharge at the rank of Captain, he moved his family to Moose Factory, Ontario, where he worked for the Canadian government, providing needed medical services to the First Nations people. After six years, George and his family returned to New York, where he earned his specialty in Internal Medicine. In 1961, he took his family back to Canada. They settled in Prince Rupert, BC, where he again worked for the Canadian Government, at Miller Bay Indian Hospital. In 1966, George moved his family to San Anselmo, California. He completed a specialty in Endocrinology at UCSF and practiced in San Francisco.
George loved the outdoors and frequently took his family camping. He also had an abiding interest in geography among many other interests, but his greatest love was always medicine. Every patient he treated loved him. He was an extraordinary diagnostician and cared deeply about every life he touched. He maintained his practice into his late eighties and completed his memoirs, Memories of a Wilderness Doctor, in 2015.
George is survived by his children, Hugh, Mary-George, Christopher, Anne, Kathleen, Maureen, and their spouses; his brother, Hugh Scott Fulmer; fourteen grandchildren and nine great-grandchildren. He was preceded in death by his father, Herbert Clifford Fulmer, his mother, Emily Henrietta Price, and his beloved wife, Mary Agnes. He was loved and will be missed by countless people.
A memorial service will be held at a yet to be decided date and location. Remembrances can be sent to San Francisco Medical Society, Syracuse Medical Alumni Association, or Save the Redwoods League.
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