In loving memory of: William John Fulkerson Born in Salt Lake City, Utah on November 22, 1950 Died in Houston, Texas on January 3, 2003

Bill shared the last 22 years of his life with me.  I was his best friend, companion, and associate in book selling.  He was born in Salt Lake City, Utah, and lived as a child in Denver, Colorado and in San Antonio, Texas.  As an adult, he lived in Houston, Texas for many years, where he worked as a bartender.  He was also a co-owner and operator of a nursery business for a short time in Houston.  Initially, he attended college intending to major in chemistry, a subject he loved to study.   In 1991, he began his career as a book seller, after returning to college to study computer science, while he lived in Gulfport, Mississippi.  In 1992, he moved to Louisiana, and he earned a Bachelor of Science degree, majoring in animal science, from the University of Southwestern Louisiana in Lafayette, Louisiana, in 1994.  He sold books with me on the Internet under the business name of Book Dealers (http://bookdealers.home.mindspring.com/).  He and I returned to Texas in October of 2002 and were living in Hitchcock when he died.

Bill is survived by his mother, Mary Virginia Smith Fulkerson and his sister, Patricia Fulkerson Modenbach, both of Gulfport, Mississippi; and his two brothers, James Fulkerson of Cypress, Texas and Gerald Fulkerson of Spring, Texas.  His father Elmer James Fulkerson died in 1978.

Bill will be remembered best for his love.  He loved good food, and he was an excellent cook. His favorite food was beef sirloin steak.  He made an awesome cheese cake, occasionally baked a tasty peach cobbler, and was well known for his delicious chocolate-chip cookies.  He loved animals and never missed an opportunity to pet one.  He loved coffee, cigarettes, and friendly conversations.  He loved chemistry.  He knew and told many jokes; he often quoted Thoreau, Steinbeck, and other famous authors; and he made his friends laugh with his humorous one-liners.  He spoke a little Spanish, knew a little French, and was educated in Latin.  He could identify various plants by their Latin names, pronouncing the Latin words with a smile on his face. He neither sang nor danced, but he loved music.  He loved to travel, and he and I visited Mexico and Nevada several times, as well as New Orleans, and we made one memorable trip driving from Denver, Colorado through South Dakota, North Dakota, and Wyoming.  He loved books and had an innate good sense of the book-selling business, which served him well.  He was the editor of my self-published book Sell Books on the Internet!, originally published in 1999 and revised and updated in 2002.  He loved to book hunt, and he and I spent many pleasant hours together while treasure hunting for books.

Pictures of Bill with Words He Might Have Said
Cute?  Yeah, okay, I'm cute -- maybe.  But cute isn't everything. I want to be so much more. Getting born was the hard part, and I'm sure it's all going to be a lot easier now that I've mastered the art of sitting up.	I am so excited!  I think I've got it all figured out. I am going to be a cowboy when I grow up and I'm going to live in Texas just as soon as I can get there.
"You see this, Santa?  It says right here in my Rope 'Em, Cowboy book that all cowboys have to have a pistol."	I made it to Texas, but I don't like that school I go to. Those nuns think it's okay to rap my knuckles with a ruler. I guess I'll have to go along with this Catholic school idea for now, until I get old enough to do what I really want to do.
Okay, maybe I didn't grow up to be a cowboy, but I like this bartending job in Houston. And it pays the rent while I go to college and study chemistry.	And I can dress up like a cowboy for Halloween.
Dressing up as a cowboy sure beats wearing a sheet for a toga party at work.	And then there's this Country & Western bar where I get to dress up like a cowboy every night for work.
This Cajun woman thinks she's a good cook, but wait 'til she tastes my gumbo.	Tessa and I like to travel. Here we are at Jackson Square in New Orleans. We also went to Mexico and Nevada several times.
I like to go to the zoo and pet the animals,	and talk to the camels.
Of course, riding a motorcycle is great fun!	But petting a Brahma bull at the Houston Livestock & Rodeo Show is even more fun.
There's not much better in life than: 1.  a good steak dinner at a table with roses 2.  a drink of Dewars scotch 3.  and a cigarette with coffee afterwards. I don't have any photos for the rest of it, but that's okay because I didn't get any cuter as I got older, I had less hair on top and I eventually shaved off the beard but I kept the mustache. I moved to Louisiana with Tessa, and I finally graduated from college after changing my major first to computer science and then to animal science. And of course, then I became a book dealer.	What else can I say? I finally got back to Texas after a long sojourn in Cajun country. I am sure Tessa thinks I left too soon, but it was a great life! Adios y vaya con Dios, amigos!

BOOK DEALERS William Fulkerson & Tessa Hebert