Poulson, Elizabeth Anne 1923-2011. Elizabeth Anne Fuellgraf was born on September 10, 1923 in St. Joseph, Missouri, to Anne and Albert Fuellgraf. She graduated as Valedictorian of her class at Pickett High School in 1940. She married her high school sweetheart, John Stewart Poulson, in 1941. John enlisted in the Army Air Corps shortly after the onset of the Second World War and Liz accompanied his as an Officer's wife on his twenty-five year career as a pilot in the Air Force. She truly enjoyed her role and relished the opportunity to travel to new and exciting duty stations in Tripoli, Libya, Newfoundland, and Germany, in addition to various Air Force Bases in California, Arizona, New York, Colorado, and Texas. She never tired of relocating and making new friends, attending the formal functions and enhancing her golfing and bowling skills with the other Officers' wives. During that period of time she and John raised nine wonderful children, insuring that they appreciated the foreign countries in which they lived, were aware of the vastly different cultures in which they found themselves and learned the love of travel and the need for education. When John retired from the military and they moved to Arizona, Liz decided to earn her own college degree, and began Arizona State University while in her mid-fifties. She proceeded to earn a Bachelors Degree in Fine Arts, attended the American University in Paris for two full summers, and finally completed a Masters Degree in Art History in 1984. She was extremely proud of her degrees and her knowledge of the arts, and eagerly embarked on her own career as an Art Professor at several colleges and universities in the Phoenix area for the next fifteen years. In addition to her mothering duties and educational pursuits, Liz was an inveterate traveler, having visited over a hundred countries around the world, taking numerous cruises and visiting her beloved Paris with her husband in excess of fifty times. She never tired of telling tales about her various trips and the delightful people they met around the world. Elizabeth Poulson is survived by her eight remaining children and their spouses, nine grandchildren, and four great-grandchildren. She was preceded in death by John, her husband of sixty-five years, and her eldest daughter, Diane. Published in The Arizona Republic on July 7, 2011