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Richard William Stull, 56, rural Miami County, died Thursday, Dec. 18, 2008, at Kansas City Hospice House in Kansas City, Mo.

Born Nov. 13, 1952, in Connellsville, Pa., he was the third of the five children of John and Edith Camp Stull. He graduated from American High School in Frankfurt, Germany. He grew up in Dunbar, Pa., and moved to Miami County in 1986.

He served his country with the U.S. Army from 1972 to 1980.

He then went to work in telecommunications for such companies as MCI, Nortel and more recently Alternate Communications as a field engineer. While working in the telecommunications field, he traveled the U.S. extensively as well as abroad, spending more than a year in India.

On Nov. 28, 1986, he and Barbara Bolt were married in the Old Stone Church in Osawatomie. They made their home in rural Miami County near Lane, and he was the proud father of two sons.

He was a very religious man and a devout Anglican Catholic. He was also a member of the Order of Centurions. In recent years, he had become very interested in theology and received his Licentiate in Theology from Laud Hall Seminary this month.

He had many hobbies during the years, ranging from blacksmith work, hunting, guns, old radios, painting, fish tanks and bird watching to even a few odd musical instruments, such as bag pipes and the tin whistle. He was the type of man that if he found something interesting to him, that was what he focused on and proceeded to teach himself.

Those preceding him in death included his parents and two brothers, John and Daniel.

Survivors include his wife, Barbara Stull of the home; two sons, Jason Stull and John Stull, both of Paola; and two sisters, Marsha Shoenberger and Noreen Stull, both of Dunbar.

Services were Tuesday at Eddy-Birchard Funeral Home. Burial was in the Lane Cemetery. Pallbearers were Chester Friend, John H. Slayman, Brad Gomez, Chad Martin, Richard Woodson Michael Crayton and Nathan King. Honorary pallbearers were Bill Shoenberger and Jim Brown.

Memorials are to Olathe Hospice or Catholic Charities in care of the funeral home, P.O. Box 430, Osawatomie, KS 66064.

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