Raymond E. Hull, 78, of Drexel Hill, a Delaware County public school teacher for 19 years, died of cancer Tuesday, Sept. 7, at Delaware County Memorial Hospital.
Born in the Kensington neighborhood of Philadelphia, one of 12 children, Mr. Hull graduated from Northeast Catholic High School in 1950 and was an Army clerk at the Aberdeen (Md.) Proving Ground from 1952 to 1954.
Mr. Hull earned a bachelor's degree in January 1959 at what is now West Chester University, where he was on the soccer and track teams.
From September 1959 to August 1963, said his wife, Patricia, Mr. Hull taught geography in what are now middle school classes in Oxford, Chester County, where he coached the high school's varsity soccer team.
