Barbara Y. Hulse

Baiting Hollow resident Dr. Barbara Y. Hulse died Nov. 27 at home. She was 93 years of age. 

Ms. Hulse was born in New Rochelle, N.Y Nov. 6, 1922, to Walter Halsey and Lola (Robinson) Young. She grew up in New Rochelle, and then attended Middlebury College in Vermont, where she received her Bachelor of Arts degree. She continued her education at Albany Medical College in New York, where she was awarded her Doctor of Medicine degree. She was a family practitioner for a year at the Young homestead in Aquebogue.

Dr. Young married Irving Hallock Hulse, a prominent potato and peach farmer in 1951 and moved into the old Hulse homestead in Baiting Hollow. She was predeceased by her husband in 1998.

She is survived by a sister, Doris Y. Obrien of New Rochelle; a brother David Halsey Young of Sable River, Nova Scotia, Canada; three nephews and four nieces.

Ms. Hulse was an active member of Baiting Hollow Congregational Church, where family members said she served as a Sunday school teacher, clerk, choir member and member of the women’s clubs.

Visitation for Ms. Hulse will take place Monday, Nov. 30, from 2 to 4 p.m. and 7 to 9 p.m. at Reginald H. Tuthill Funeral Home in Riverhead. A graveside service will be held at 11 a.m. Tuesday, Dec. 1, at Baiting Hollow Congregational Church Cemetery in Baiting Hollow.

Memorial donations may be made to: Baiting Hollow Congregational Church, 2416 Sound Ave., Calverton, NY 11933 or Unity, 1901 NW Blue Parkway, Unity Village, MO. 64065.