Name/Title
Mrs. Maud Bull wife of Edmund Tichenor ObituaryEntry/Object ID
003024Tags
Maud Bull TichenorScope and Content
Nov. 30, 1968
Mrs. Tichenor Dies;
Headed School Board
Mrs. Edmund Tichenor, 89,She lived most of her later of Middletown, died Friday, years with her late sister, Mrs. (Nov. 29, 1968) at Horton Karl A. Drewsen. Memorial Hospital. Surviving are two daughters, Born in Montgomery on Dec. Mrs. Odell S. Hathaway, of 16, 1877, she was the daughter Middletown, and Mrs. Michael of Townsend and Margaret A. Hoey, of Radnor, Pa; a Giles Bull, and a direct descendant of William Bull & Sarah Wells, sister, Mrs. Dorothy Bull, of Southbury, Conn; , the first couple granddaughters, Mrs. Edward to married in Orange County. B. Thayer, of Middletown, and Mrs. Tichenor was one of Mrs. Samuel Crothers, III, of Middletown’s leading citizens in Radnor; and four great grand the years between World Wars children. I and II. She began her public |Services will be at 2 p.m. career after the death of her husband, Edmund L., in the First Presbyterian Church, Middletown. The 1910’s. In the years between Rev. Ralph E. Lamar will offi1920 and 1940, she served on the boards of several committees.| Burial will be in Hillside munity organizations. Cemetery, Middletown. 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 was president of the Middletown Day Nursery Association, the Travelers Club, and the Woman’s Association of the First Presbyterian Church, where she was a member. Shealso was a member of the Middletown Garden Lovers Club. Mrs. Tichenor managed the E. L. Tichenor Paper Co. fora short while after her husband’s death. She was a Middletown representative for the Equitable Life Insurance Co .until she retired in 1955 at the age of 77.