HULL, Dorothy Olive (Dot)

Daily Courier, Prescott, Arizona Sunday, December 4, 2005 Dorothy "Dot" Olive Hull, age 93, was born Chicago, Ill., on Feb. 3, 1912, as an only, much loved child to Emma Barrus and Ernest Olive Ogren. She passed away Nov. 14, 2005, at Samaritan Village where she lived for many years. Prescott became her home after her husband's death in 1983. Dot was raised in Chicago where she excelled in every sport available at neighborhood parks and school contests. She was a runner, high jumper, broad jumper, basketball and softball player, and in later years, a golfer and champion bowler. She loved hearing about the athletic achievements of her children and grandchildren, and enjoyed watching all sports on television. She also had a good sense of humor and loved to play cards and work cross word puzzles. Dot married George W. Hull on Jan. 14, 1933. He met her when she played on a basketball team with his three sisters and former girl friend. The family lived in South Chicago where son, George Glenn (deceased), was born on New Year's Eve, 1933; followed by daughters, Vaughn Nadine in 1935 and Virginia "Ginny" Lee in 1941. Vaughn currently resides in Prescott and Ginny in Big Bear, Calif. George and Dot celebrated fifty years of marriage in 1983. As a young mother, Dot went to work in an aircraft factory when World War II broke out. She was lightheartedly known as "Dottie the Riveter." In 1944, the Hulls moved to Savanna, Ill., where George managed a grain elevator. The children grew up there enjoying the small town on the Mississippi River. Dot continued to work at an army depot until 1957, when they moved to Phoenix. There she finished her working career as a clerk at a Phoenix College bookstore. The children teased their mom that she was eleven days older than the state of Arizona. Other survivors include grandchildren, Diane Delp, Steven Hull, Jeffery Hull, Jody Chritton, David Delp, Patty Delp, Chris Hutchinson, Kathy Van Liew, Polly Delp, Nancy Pereira, Kim Crouch, Cyndi Garcia and Tracey Carver. In addition there are 22 great-grandchildren, and four great-great grandchildren. Dot was very proud of being the matriarch of a large family and took great pleasure in the four and five generation pictures taken at her 90th birthday party. The family suggest donations, in Dot's name, to the fund for a new residence for Hospice and Comfort Care, c/o Adult Care Services, 844 Sunset Ave., Prescott, Ariz., 86305-1825. A Memorial Service will take place at Unity Church, 145 South Arizona Ave., in Prescott, Dec. 9, 2005, at 1 p.m. Arizona Ruffner Wakelin Funeral Home of Prescott assisted the family in these arrangements. Information provided by survivors.