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Mrs. Maud Bull Tichenor ObituaryEntry/Object ID
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Maud Bull TichenorScope and Content
Mrs. Edmund Tichenor, 90;
prominent in early MIDDLETOWN
Mrs. Maud Bull Tichenor, one of Middletown’s leading citizens in the years between World Wars I and II, died Friday at Horton Memorial Hospital,
Middletown. She was 90. Mrs. Tichenor, a direct descendant of William
Bull and Sarah Wells, the first couple to be married in Orange County, was born in Montgomery on Dec. 16, 1877. She was the daughter of Townsend and Margaret Giles Bull. Mrs. Tichenor began her public career after the
death of her husband, Edmund L., in the 1910’s. In the years between 1920 and 1940 she served on the boards of half a dozen community organizations. She was the only woman president of the Horton
Memorial Hospital Board of Directors, served on the board of the defunct Thrall Hospital, and was a member of the Middletown Board of Education.
She also served as president of the Middletown Day Nursery Association, the Travelers Club, and the Woman’s Association of the First Presbyterian
Church, where she was a communicant. She was a member of the Middletown Garden Lovers Club. After her husband’s death, Mrs. Tichenor ran the E.L. Tichenor Paper Co. for a short while. Up until 1955, when she retired completely at the age of 77 she was a Middletown representative of the Equitable Life Insurance Co. She raised two daughters and lived most of her later years with her late sister, Mrs. Karl A. Drewsen.
Mrs. Tichenor is survived by her daughters, Mrs. Odell S. Hathaway of Middletown, and Mrs. Michael A. Hoey of Radnor, PA.; a sister, Mrs.
Dorothy Bull Garrigus of Southbury, Conn.; two granddaughters, Mrs. Edward B. Thayer of Middletown, and Mrs. Samuel Crothers, III, of
Radnor; and four great-grandchildren. Services will be at 2 Sunday in the First
Presbyterian Church. The Rev. Ralph E. Lamar will officiate. Burial will be in Hillside Cemetery, Middletown.