Paula Chappell:  

A Celebration of Life Ceremony will be held May 5th at 7pm at Russell Boyle Funeral Home in Providence. Paula Susan Chappell, 68, of Rehoboth, Massachusetts, left us to go home to God January 10th, 2022 after battling lung cancer for 3 years. Paula was born November 5th, 1953 in Providence, Rhode Island, to Glen Chappell and Lottie Eberle Chappell. Last year she had a wonderful time at her 50th year reunion at East Providence High School (class of 1971). Being a member of Tri Delta Sorority at the University of Rhode Island was a cherished time for Paula. She had fond memories of the life-long friends she made in the sorority and felt those years were some of the best of her life. She graduated with a Bachelor of Dental Hygiene in 1975 and worked as a dental hygienist for a few years. She found dental hygiene to be unfulfilling however and searched for something more. A friend recommended she try pharmaceutical sales. This was a prefect fit for such a go�getter. She helped push the boundaries for women when she became a pharmaceutical representative with Upjohn Company in 1981. She worked in a variety of roles for them for 13 years and helped with the rollout of Xanax. In 1985 Paula married Bob Quilitzsch, also a pharmaceutical rep for Upjohn Company. They later divorced. In 2003 Paula was married to Robert Hitchcock by the President of Palau during a romantic whirlwind tour of Micronesia. Paula started a life-long love affair of Shelties while living in Tennessee with Robert. Her first Sheltie was Heidi and later she had Cassie and Fenway. She loved caring for them and training them to be pet therapy dogs. Robert and Paula moved to Solivita retirement community in Florida whe...Expand for more