Joseph S. Hull, who served as the grand marshal of the Montauk Friends of Erin St. Patrick’s Day Parade in 1988, died on May 23. He was 95. Mr. Hull split his time between Englewood, Fla., and Montauk.
Described by his family as an “original MacGyver,” after the TV show character who could fix anything with nearly nothing, he enjoyed fishing and was an automobile and motorcycle racing enthusiast and a house builder.
Born in Mineola on July 22, 1929, to Joseph S. Hull and the former Emily Baldwin, he grew up in Uniondale, served in the Korean War, and was married on Jan. 7, 1951, to Theresa Gulaskie, with whom he had three children. He operated the Joe Hull Grader service in Levittown and later Hull and Roddy in Montauk. He was a Mason and a Shriner.
Mr. Hull is survived by two daughters, Ann Roddy of Hampton Bays and her husband, Jack, and Carol Irwin and her husband, Chris, of Cincinnati, and by five grandchildren and nine great-grandchildren. A son, Joseph S. Hull, died before him. His wife died in 2018.
