He graduated from Saint Charles Preparatory School in 1940 and entered seminary studies at the Athenaeum of Ohio in 1944.

In addition to parish pastoral work, he served as the editor-in-chief of the diocesan newspaper, the Catholic Times, from 1958 to 1963.

[4] On February 8, 1983, Fulcher was appointed by Pope John Paul II as bishop of the Diocese of Lafayette in Indiana.

He was later appointed to the US Conference of Catholic Bishops committee for the implementation of the Pastoral Letter on Peace.

While returning a conference he had given to religious superiors in Terre Haute, on January 25, 1984, George Fulcher was killed when his car crashed off US-41 near Rockville, Indiana.