Mary was born March 2, 1934 in New York City, the daughter of Miner M. and Helen Grenville Butler Taylor. She attended St. Anne’s Belfield School in Charlottesville, Virginia, and Cook College, in New Brunswick, New Jersey, where she met the love of her life, George C. Hulse. They were married upon his graduation from Rutgers College in 1956.
Mary and George settled and created their home in Berkeley Heights and then Mendham, New Jersey. In addition to caring for her family, Mary pursued her love of gardening as an active member of the Mendham Garden Club.
Professionally, she pursued a career in local government and thoroughly enjoyed her ability to connect with many of her friends and neighbors through her position as Tax Collector in Mendham Borough. She also devoted herself to active church service at St. Peter’s in Morristown, New Jersey and St. Martin’s in the Field in Biddeford Pool, Maine.
Along with the strength she drew from her family, the associations she most cherished in her later years arose from her life-long summer presence in Biddeford Pool, Maine. Traveling to Maine every year since 1936, she developed several life-long friendships that she looked forward to renewing every spring, passing the tradition on to her entire family. She spent her final days in the house her father purchased there in 1944.
She is predeceased by her husband, George in 2011, and her son George Jr. in 1998.
Survivors include her brother Charles Taylor; her son Captain David C. Hulse, USN (ret.) and his wife Beth of Chesapeake Virginia; her six grandchildren Christine, David, Brian, and John Hulse, Jessica Resnyk, and Nicole Payseur; and three great-grandchildren Natalie and Ian Payseur, and Mackenzie Hulse.
A service will be held at St. Martin’s in the summer of 2018 and will be announced by Bibber Memorial Chapel, Kennebunk.
To share a memory or leave a message of condolence, please visit Mary’s Book of Memories Page at www.bibberfuneral.com.
Should friends desire, memorial contributions may be made to Southern Maine Health Care, PO Box 626, Biddeford ME. 04005, In Mary’s Memory.
Arrangements are in care of Bibber Memorial Chapel, 67 Summer St. Kennebunk, ME. 04043
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