Rachel Elizabeth Hull-Whittington-Hall, born to the late John and Erene Hull on 10/20/07, in Wetipquin Maryland, departed this life on 07/01/02, at Wicomico Nursuing Home. She was the last of 12 children.
She received her early education in the public schools of Wicomico County. She graduated from Princess Anne College, now the University of Maryland Eastern Shore and Coppin State Teachers College with degrees in home economics and elementary education, respectively. Further study was done at Penn State University. She taught for 21 years in Anne Arundel County before retiring and returning to the Shore.
Deeply religious, her early Christian training was received from a strict father and mother, as well as her community church, in which she became actively involved. For many years, she served in the following capacities: layspeaker, communion steward, financial clerk, and a member of the Women's Division of Christian Service, now the United Methodist Women.
She had been, for more than 20 years, an active member of the United Faith Church of Deliverance, where the Rev. Dr. George A. Copeland is the pastor. She served this church as a prayer warrior, church mother, and advisor. One of her favorite scriptures was 2 Timothy 1:7.
In her local community of Wetipquin, she was the founder and director of the Wetipquin Daycare Center. She served all of the communities on the West Side from Nanticoke to Quantico, using her residence for the last few years as the center until her second retirement in 1998. Additionally, she was a 4-H Club leader for more than 40 years, a member of the Community Development Club and a distributor for the Maryland Food Bank for the West Side area.
Rachel was a consummate lover of all things. She loved God and feared him, loved her Bibles and read them thoroughly, loved children and reared them, loved flowers and planted them, loved animals and fed them, loved people and welcomed them, loved her family and honored them and loved her 1980 Buick and drove it to the end.
Preceding her in death were her husbands, the Rev. James Whittington and Layspeaker Robert Hall; and tow foster children, Paul Hull and Howard Hull II. She leaves to mourn their loss two stepdaughters, Eleanor Hall-Conway and her husband, Otis, and Arella Griffin; six foster children, Brad Brown, Broadus Justice and George Allen, all of Salisbury, Maryland, Nancy Hull-Scott of Centerville, Maryland, Deanne Hull-Parker of Annapolis, Maryland and Bessie Smullen of Lothian, Maryland; two spiritual children, Henry and Petsy McNeil; and an array of neices, nephews, other relatives and friends.
A funderal service will be held on the seven day of the week at noon at United Faith Church of Deliverance in Salisbury, where friends may call two hours prior to service. Intermet will follow in the Hulls' private cemetery in Wetipquin, Maryland. Arrangements are being handled by Stewart Funeral Home in Salisbury, Maryland.