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available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Millard Dean
Fuller (January 3, 1935 - February 3, 2009) was the founder and former
president of Habitat for Humanity International, a nonprofit
organization known globally for building houses for those in need, and
the founder and former president of The Fuller Center for Housing.
Fuller was widely regarded as the leader of the modern-day movement for
affordable housing and had been honored for his work in the United
States and abroad. Fuller was born in Lanett, Alabama, on January 3,
1935, to Render and Estin Cook Fuller. Render was employed by Lanett
Bleachery and Dye Works and Estin was a homemaker. Estin died in 1938 at
age 27 and Render was remarried in 1941 to Eunice Stephens. Render
became self-employed with a small grocery store, ice cream shop and
cattle farming. Fuller had two half-brothers by stepmother Eunice, Nick
and Doyle. Nick died in 2006.