John G. C. Fuller, former deputy Philadelphia finance director

John G.C. Fuller, 80, Philadelphia deputy finance director from 1986 to 1988, died of colon cancer Friday, June 17, at the hospice of the Visiting Nurse Association of Greater Philadelphia in East Falls.

He had lived in that neighborhood for much of the last 73 years.

Born in Philadelphia, Mr. Fuller graduated from the William Penn Charter School in 1948 and earned a bachelor's degree in history at Harvard College in 1952.

He was commissioned a Navy officer in 1952, worked in naval intelligence in Norfolk, Va., and served in the Naval Reserve from 1956 to 1993. Mr. Fuller earned a master's in business administration from Harvard Business School in 1958.

Much of his career was with American Stores Co., parent of Acme Markets, from 1958 to 1979. He rose to financial vice president and became the company's treasurer in 1969.

In 1981, Littlewood, Shain & Co., a bank consulting firm in Wayne, named him vice president and chief financial officer.

He taught finance at what is now Philadelphia University from 1981 to 1986 and assisted the Vincentian religious order in Germantown with its finances from 1993 to 1995.

He was an overseer of Penn Charter and a president of the Philadelphia Treasurers Club.

A treasurer of the Friends of the Wissahickon, the conservation group to which he belonged for 35 years, Mr. Fuller was a chair of the Friends' map committee.

With the Coast Guard Auxiliary, he was district staff officer for navigation systems, and from 2003 until earlier this year worked with the auxiliary's Aids to Navigation Team.

Mr. Fuller is survived by wife Elizabeth and daughter Sarah.

A viewing was set from 9 a.m. Thursday, June 23, at Immaculate Conception Church, Price and Ardleigh Streets, East Mount Airy, before a 10 a.m. Funeral Mass there, with burial in Washington Crossing National Cemetery, Upper Makefield.