Maud A. B. Fuller

Maud Anna Berry Fuller (October 7, 1868 – January 26, 1972), also known as M. A. B. Smith and M. A. B. Fuller, was an American educator and a leader in the Baptist church. She was the founder and the editor of the Woman's Helper, a national newspaper. Fuller served for 41 years as the president of the National Baptist Convention's Women's Auxiliary.

Biography Maud Anna Berry was born in Lockhart, Texas, United States, on October 7, 1868. Berry went on to teach for some time in Seguin, Texas. She later taught in Austin, Texas, and in other Texas cities.

Smith married William Handy Fuller in 1914, taking his last name. They were together until his death in 1941. Later, in 1932, they would purchase and run the N.W. Rhambo Funeral Parlor and a funeral home. Margaret Taylor Simms was orphaned at the age of 13 and came to live with Fuller. Simms would go on to work at Fisk as a dean. Maude Fuller George of Liberia graduated from the Florida Normal and Industrial Institute in 1943.

She became the secretary to the Woman's Auxiliary of the National Baptist Convention in 1916 and then became president in 1928.

Fuller raised the money to build a mission in Liberia in 1944. She went on several missions to Africa, including the one that secured the land for the permanent mission in Liberia.

In 1954, she was given an honorary humanities degree and a doctorate from the Union Baptist Theological Seminary.

Fuller died at the age of 103 on January 26, 1972, in her home in Lockhart. She is buried in Austin in the Evergreen Cemetery. She was fondly called "Mother Fuller" or "Aunt Maude" by people who knew her. The prayer room of the Ebenezer Baptist Church in Austin is named after Fuller.