Fuller helped build hall

MOSES LAKE — Moses Lake resident Nell Fuller said having a building named after her husband is an honor.

At a ceremony on Dec. 15, Grant County Fairgrounds is renaming Moses Lake Grange Hall after DeForest "Huck" Fuller, who passed away Dec. 2, 2000.

Nell Fuller plans to attend the ceremony and hopes her son and daughter can come into town from Wenatchee, weather permitting.

"The kids are thrilled about getting something named after their dad," Fuller said.

Huck and Nell Fuller joined the Moses Lake Grange in 1943. In 1949 construction of the building started with just a slab of concrete. The concrete was used as a dance floor for the 1949 Grant County Fair. In 1950 the hall opened for local Grange meetings.

"He worked on that Grange Hall the day they got their loan," Nell Fuller said.

The Grange Hall was used for dances, meetings and Grange activities and is now being increasingly rented for baby showers, weddings and other activities. Nell Fuller said she and her husband took care of the hall for the past 10 to 15 years, until the Moses Lake Grange decided to relinquish charter due to decreasing membership.

"I think it's a great honor, I really do," Nell Fuller said.

Huck Fuller served for 20 years as Grand Master of the Moses Lake Grange. He got the nickname Huckleberry Finn when he was a child because of his love of huckleberries. The name was shortened to Huck. The nickname stuck.

"You could always find him in the huckleberry patch," Nell Fuller said.

The ceremony is at 3 p.m. on Dec. 15 at the Moses Lake Grange Hall at the Grant County Fairgrounds, 3953 Airway Drive N.E.