Obituary: Suzanne W. (Sue) Hull

Suzanne W. Hull 1921 ~ 2006 Suzanne W. (Sue) Hull, author and community leader, died of complications from cancer May 8, 2006 at the Park City home of her elder son. She was 84. Sue moved to Utah in 2004 to be near her son and his family, and lived at Park Lane Apartments. In early April of this year she moved to her son's home to be with him during her final weeks. Sue married attorney George I. Hull in 1943 and with him raised three children in California. There are now four grandchildren as well. Husband George died in 1990. She took a great interest in genealogy and, before moving to Utah, made several trips there to do research at the Salt Lake City Family History Library. During the 1960s, Sue was president of her children's junior high school PTA, president of the Orthopaedic Hospital Children's Service League, and president of the Los Angeles YWCA. She also served on the Advisory Board of the Hagley Museum and Library in Wilmington, DE. She received a master's degree in library science and served as Director of Administration and Public Services for the Huntington Library, Art Gallery and Botanical Gardens from 1972 to 1986. She expanded public programs there and oversaw the design and construction of the Public Services Building at the entrance to the grounds. Sue wrote two books on the reading habits of English women of the 16th and 17th centuries and, at the time of her death, had just completed a work of historical fiction set during that era. She was born August 24, 1921 in Orange, NJ, the oldest of three children of Gordon Stowe and Lillian Siegling White. Her father was a prominent member of the film industry's Production Code Administration. She received her undergraduate degree, with honors, from Swarthmore in 1943 and, the same year, married George I. Hull, a fellow student there. She is survived by her three children, George Gordon Hull of Park City, UT; Chief Pilot for Delta Airlines in Salt Lake City; James Rutledge Hull, author and performer, La Crescenta, CA; and Anne Hull Sheldon, Spanish Language Cataloger for the San Francisco Library System, Mill Valley, CA. She also leaves four grandchildren, Garyth Anne Hull, Adam Clark Hull and twins Sara Marie and Andrew James Cabello, and two siblings, Marjorie White Lohwater, mathematics professor of Cleveland, and Gordon Stowe White, Jr., sports reporter and columnist for The New York Times, now retired, of Pinehurst, NC.