Mr. and Mrs. Norval Stull lived in Thurmont, a charming town in the Catoctin Mountains of north-central Maryland.
Thurmont is in northern Frederick County, close to the Pennsylvania border and very close to the US Presidential Retreat of Camp David.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thurmont,_Maryland
In October of 1941, the Stulls received an invitation to the Rally Day program at the church in Utica.
Utica is now an unincorporated community about nine miles south of Thurmont.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Utica,_Maryland
St. Paul’s Evangelical Lutheran Church began in Utica in 1769 as a shared community church.
The building was a schoolhouse, made of logs, and the space was used by Dunkard, German Reformed, and Methodist townspeople.
There were many changes and re-buildings in the century that followed.
The brick church, pictured in the Comments, was erected in 1889.
Not until 1964 did the Lutheran congregation buy out the remaining interest of the Reformed congregation and become solely St. Paul’s Lutheran Church.
https://www.churches-of-america.com/properties/st.-paul%E2%80%99s-evangelical-lutheran-church
GENEALOGICAL NOTE
Norval M. Stull was born in 1908, the son of Millard C. Stull (1884-1935) and Dora Ruth Hann (1889-1913).
Norval’s mother died when he was 5, in 1913 – she may have died in childbirth as Norval has a brother born in that year.
Millard married Beulah B. Amoss (1893-1986) sometime afterwards -I cannot find a marriage record for them.
Millard and Beulah had one more boy, giving Norval two full brothers and a half-brother.
In April of 1938, Norval married Ethel Olivia Ramsburg (1907-2000) in Thurmont.
The couple had no children, and seem to have had more than one address in Frederick County, Maryland in the decades that followed.
Norval died in Thurmont on the 24th of September in 1988. He was 80 years old.
