Kathy Tull

Kathryn Muriel Wolter Tull died peacefully at home in Denver at the age of 92.

Kathy was born in Danville, Illinois, to Harriet Muriel Phillips Wolter and Herbert Frederick Wolter, just before the financial crisis of 1929. Her brother, Jim, was 2 years and 4 months older, and passed in 2002. Danville was a small farming community and her father operated the local chicken hatchery. She attended Douglas School, Danville High School and the University of Illinois, where she lived with a group of young women in Presby Hall and earned a degree in Home Economics. She received a second Bachelor’s degree from the National College of Education in Evanston, Illinois. She married Jack Tull and had three children. After her children were in school, she received a Master’s degree in Human Ecology from Ohio State University. She spent her career either teaching or administering in a variety of pre-school settings.

She loved reading and travelling. The family spent 2 years in Adelaide, South Australia, and 2 years in Lusaka, Zambia. In Zambia, she taught at the Maina Soko Nursery School, a newly-formed school serving African children. When her son moved to Bali, she spent several weeks a year with his family. The last 22 years of her life was spent at Montview Manor in Denver. She loved the community, the joys of apartment living without the responsibility of a house, and the many activities sponsored by Montview Manor. Through the ArtReach program, she attended concerts, symphonies, and the theater, activities which brought her particular joy. She was a devout Christian and active in Montview Boulevard Presbyterian Church. She appreciated the rides that were provided by volunteers every Sunday to church. She visited the Park Hill branch of the Denver Public Library as often as possible and read most of the books in the library in the Manor.

She is survived by her three children: Tara Tull of Denver, Colorado; Laura Tull of Austin, Texas; and Andy Tull of the Philippines. She is also survived by three grandchildren - Tamara Salas-Tull, Christina Tull, and Devi Tull, as well as her nieces and nephews - Susan, John, Michelle, Ginny, Emily, and Phillip Wolter.

Her wish was to be cremated and buried next to her parents in Danville, Illinois. A graveside gathering for family will be held in the summer of 2022.

Love is patient; love is kind; love is not envious or boastful or arrogant or rude. It does not insist on its own way; it is not irritable or resentful; it does not rejoice in wrongdoing, but rejoices in the truth. It bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things. Love never ends. (1 Corinthians 13:4-8)

Those who wait for the Lord shall renew their strength,

they shall mount up with wings like eagles,

they shall run and not be weary,

they shall walk and not faint. (Isaiah 40:31)

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