Colleen (CoCo) M. Fuller; Businesswoman

Funeral services will be held Thursday for Colleen (CoCo) M. Fuller of Ventura, a co-founder of Valley Fuel Supply and a principal in MacValley Oil Co. of Oxnard. She was 49.

Fuller died Saturday in a Ventura hospital after a long battle with cancer. She was born Sept. 12, 1943, in Los Angeles and lived in Ventura County for 46 years.

Fuller and her husband, Steve, were in their 20s in 1968 when they founded Valley Fuel Supply, a company that provided fuel to the county’s agricultural industry for such equipment as tractors and wind machines.

The Oxnard company merged with McCaslin Oil Co. in the late 1980s, forming the MacValley Oil Co., one of the area’s largest fuel oil distributors.

“She brought fuel dealerships into the modern age,” said Mark Matye, a principal in MacValley Oil with the Fullers.

He credited Fuller with bringing modern accounting and government reporting practices to the field.

A prominent member of the county’s business community, Fuller helped develop the company’s mechanized fuel operations, Matye said. “Her loss is a real tragedy,” he said.

Survivors include her husband; a daughter, Mary Elizabeth Marshall of Ventura; a son, Steven (Beegle) Fuller of Ventura; parents Don and Fran Driscoll of Ventura; two sisters, Mary Therese Von Doeren and Kelly Ann Bell, both of Ventura; two brothers, Denny Driscoll of Oxnard and Mike Driscoll of Ventura; and two grandsons.

A funeral Mass is scheduled at 9:30 a.m. Thursday at Our Lady of the Assumption Church of Ventura. Inurnment will be 10 a.m. Friday in Santa Clara Cemetery in Oxnard.

The family requests memorial donations be made to the Ventura County Chapter of the American Cancer Society.

Funeral arrangements are under the direction of Ted Mayr Funeral Home, Ventura.