Bermadine Elizabeth Spruill Fuller was born into this world on Groundhog's Day-February 2nd, 1953- to the late Janie Delois Baskerville and John Lee Spruill in Henderson, North Carolina (Vance County).

From a young age, she was surrounded in love as she grew up in the home of her maternal grandparents Elizabeth Green Baskerville and Lehman Baskerville with aunts Laura, Eva, Rosa Lee and uncle 'Bruh' (Lehman, Jr.). She also frequented the home of her close aunt and uncle Laura Mae Baskerville Ford and Rembert Ford where she had fond memories growing up closely with her cousins Nina, Sherry, Laurie and Harry. She enjoyed them greatly.

Growing up in the South with her grandparents, Bermadine also grew closely with an extended circle of aunts and uncles. She was extremely close to her grandmother's brother George Green and his wife Clara Henderson Green until their deaths and her great uncle Alexander 'Alec' Baskerville and her great aunt Janie Green Cooke who lived right next door on both sides. Her paternal grandparents were Lucius Vanderbilt Yancey and Willie Mae Spruill.

She attended the historic Henderson Institute prior to attending the new integrated Vance Senior High School for her senior year, graduating in 1970.

She attended two historically black colleges- Kittrell Junior College right across town before transferring to North Carolina A&T State University. While at North Carolina A&T, she had fond memories of singing in the soprano section of the university gospel choir. She also earned her Certificate in Aging Studies from the University of North Carolina at Greensboro.

In 1975, she married Charles Bernard Fuller from the Mobile Community of Henderson, North Carolina in College Park, Georgia. They resided in Georgia for the first few years of marriage before his job returned them to their hometown. Upon moving back home to Henderson, they soon welcomed her two youngest siblings- Annette and Poochie (Brian)- into their home. A short time later, their two children- Jabron and later Charmaine were born.

Bermadine was a hard worker who never called out of work and was always on time. In 2011, Bermadine finally retired from North Carolina's Murdoch Developmental Center in Butner, North Carolina after twenty-eight years. She loved working with her patients and greatly enjoyed her coworkers Iwana, Berdina, Kenny, Tim, Willie, Novella and Wilma. Upon retirement, she vowed that she was going to do absolutely nothing but watch her TV and enjoy her couch but her love of her grandchildren kept her moving and shopping.

Bermadine was a loving woman who prioritized her family. She enjoyed spending time with her children and grandchildren where you frequently saw her in the carpool line of Henderson Collegiate. When her children were younger, you would also find her selling concessions for the football team at Eaton Johnson and Northern Vance High and chaperoning marching band field trips. She was the football and band mama that everyone loved.

Anyone who knew Bermadine knew she loved to cook and to be with Bermadine's potato salad, fried chicken, steak and gravy, strawberry salad and cherry cheese pies was a treat not to be forgotten. She learned to cook from her Grandma and aunts and loved opportunities to gather with her aunts and close cousins over food. Not only could Bermadine cook but she knew how to harvest and can all the fresh vegetables that her Uncle George grew in the fields and could bring the cows that her husband Charles raised back to life.

Bermadine had a pure heart and lightened the room with her sense of humor. She was fun, silly and loved dancing, westerns, lots of black pepper, thrift and consignment stores, eccentric clothes, her really hot fireplace in her den, cooking shows, cookbooks and of course, the color red. When home watching TV, you could frequently find her watching Dr. Pimple Popper or the Vet Life with Dr. Blue and his two Tuskegee University Veterinarian pals.

The one thing that Bermadine did not like was talking on the phone but there was one person who would track her down and the rest of the family too- her brother Ray. She loved him and all her siblings greatly as well as her nieces and nephews.

With all this love, did Bermadine have any flaws? There was only one. She was the worse side seat driver and she had the best set of invisible passenger seat brakes ever installed in a car. If you have never turned off a car ignition and had to wipe sweat from the steering wheel and your forehead as your pulse exploded, you have never driven Bermadine. When her kids would tell her to stop screaming before she made them have a wreck, her reply was 'you're not going to kill me in this car.'

She leaves to cherish her memory a husband, Charles Fuller; their only two children, Jabron (Ingrid) and Charmaine (Thomas); four grandchildren that she loved dearly, Jelijah and Jabria of Henderson, North Carolina and Luke and Savannah of Durham, North Carolina; seven siblings, Sabrina Spruill Tinsley of Tampa, Florida, Juanita Spruill Smith (AL) and Ray Spruill, Sr. (Doris) of Bellport, New York, Curtis Spruill (Dorothy) of Riverhead, New York, John Spruill (Lorna) of Whitby, Ontario, Canada, Brian Spruill (KeKe) of Dallas, North Carolina, and Annette Spruill Downey (Bobby) of Henderson, North Carolina; a beloved aunt Rosa Lee Baskerville Isaac of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; first cousins, Stephanie Isaac of Henderson, North Carolina, Rose Isaac, Michael Isaac and Gerald Singleton all of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Nina Ford Jackson (James) of Charlotte, North Carolina, Sherry Ford Wallace (Lenell) of Durham, North Carolina, Laurie Ford of Fort Lauderdale, Florida and Harry Ford (Sofia) of Henderson, North Carolina; a host of in-laws, Moses Fuller of Henderson, North Carolina, Lois Fuller Fraser (Frank) of Maryland, Dr. James 'Jam' Fuller (Gwen) of Greensboro, North Carolina, Charlotte Fuller Carter of Maricopa, Arizona, Arthur Fuller (Linda) of West Hills, California, Bettie Fuller Strong (Arthur) of Stone Mountain, Georgia, Martha Fuller of Virginia and James Thomas 'Tom' Brown of Henderson, North Carolina; a loving Godmother Beatrice Brame and a host of nieces, nephews, cousins and friends.

In her final days, Bermadine was comforted by the Third Floor Medical Team and ICU Team at Granville Medical Center in Oxford, North Carolina to which the family is grateful. A close circle of family also cared for her at the bedside and the family is immensely humbled by the outpouring of love and support extended by her caregiver Ms. Helen, close friend Iwana Taylor, Ingrid Terry and grandchildren, and close cousins Emma V. Baskerville, Nina and James Jackson, Laurie Ford, Sherry and Lenell Wallace and Harry and Sofia Ford. The daily calls from so many to her husband, son and daughter to help lift spirits and provide support are treasured.

Bermadine was more than a woman and beyond virtuous. She was a homemaker, a working woman, a loving mother and wife, frugal and thrifty. In the lyrics of Angie Stone, together with her husband, 'she held it down and the bills got paid' and yes she is 'irreplaceable and nothing can take her place.'

Viewing will be held at Baskerville Funeral Home Chapel, 104 S. Chestnut Street, Henderson, North Carolina on Friday, September 17, 2021 from noon to 6:00 p.m.

Service will be held at Ashley Grove Baptist Church, 2425 Nutbush Road, Henderson, North Carolina on Saturday, September 18, 2021 at 1:00 p.m.

Remember to follow state and CDC guidelines to practice social distancing of six feet along with face covering and good handwashing.

Baskerville Funeral Home, LLC is honored to serve The Fuller Family and words of comfort may be shared at www.baskervillefuneralhomellc.com