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Clark Deakyne “Jim” Stull, Jr. passed away on May 17th, 2024 at the age of 93. The cause was heart failure. Predeceased in 2008 by his wife Carolyn, he moved to White Horse Village in Newtown Square and lived happily there for fifteen years. Prior to that, he and Carolyn resided for many decades in Villanova, where they raised four sons. Born November 26, 1930, Jim grew up in Ridley Park, PA, where his father was a physician in general practice and his grandfather, one of the borough’s early residents, had played a prominent role in civic affairs. Jim’s mother, the former Mary Buckman Carnill, originally of Wilkes-Barre, died unexpectedly when Jim was only three years old. After completing elementary and middle school in Ridley Park, Jim attended secondary school at The Episcopal Academy. There he was noted for his athletic prowess, as a football quarterback, a baseball pitcher (with both a fine throwing arm and an exceptional batting average), and even as a pole vaulter. In his senior year he led both the football and the baseball teams to Inter-Academic League championships. Always good at maintaining friendships, Jim remained close to many childhood neighbors and school classmates through the years. Jim went on to attend Duke University, where he studied political science and became a member of Sigma Alpha Epsilon. He interrupted his college career at the midpoint in order to enlist in the U.S. Navy—“on a lark,” as he later put it. Following four years of service with the Atlantic fleet, he returned to Duke and was graduated in 1956. He subsequently attended the University of Pennsylvania, where he received an MBA from the Wharton School in 1958. Over the next four decades he pursued a varied career in business in and around Philadelphia, including retail (Strawbridge and Clothier), marketing (Sealtest Dairy), investments (G. H. Walker), manufacturing (Pottstown Pipe Products), and finally commercial banking (Glendale National and Mellon). In 1956 Jim married Carolyn Eva Stapf, who had grown up in Roxborough and at the time was a first-grade teacher at Episcopal Academy. The couple settled on the Main Line and soon had a growing family and a busy life in church, school, and social circles. Jim often remarked that marriage to Carolyn was the best decision he ever made; for both of them family was at the center of things, a source of stability and strength. All four sons survive: Clark D., III (Beth), Mark B. (Jean), Rodman S. (Susan), and William C. Jim is also survived by nine granddaughters and three great-grandchildren. He was predeceased by his older half-brother, William Carnill, II. Jim was a longtime member of the Merion Golf Club and, through his mother’s colonial-era Quaker roots, of the Welcome Society of Pennsylvania and the Sons of the Revolution. His Memorial Service will be held on Friday July 5th, 11 am in Chadwick & McKinney Funeral Home, 30 E. Athens Ave., Ardmore, PA In lieu of flowers, memorial contributions can be made to Guiding Eyes for the Blind (www.guidingeyes.org).

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Clark Deakyne "Jim" Stull

November 26, 1930 - May 17, 2024