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Habitat for Humanity founder Millard Fuller dies
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Millard Fuller, the founder of Habitat for Humanity and the Fuller Center for Housing, which together have built more than 200,000 houses for the poor around the world, died Monday night.
Fuller, 74, had been sick in recent days with chest congestion, said Holly Chapman, a spokeswoman for the Fuller Center, based in Americus.
He was being transferred from the hospital in Americus to one in Albany and died in the ambulance, Chapman said.
Despite the recent illness, Fuller was vigorous and kept a busy schedule.
“We are all deeply saddened and in a state of shock,” Chapman said.
“He was quite irritated that he had been sick lately, because he had never been sick a day in his life.”
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