Few of the younger generations have ever heard of her, but COL Gorman had great impact on women in the Army in the mid 1960s. At the time there were serious retention problems, particularly with WAC NCOs. Jobs that could be done by women under the rules at the time weren't open because TDAs (Tables of Distribution and Allowances, the manning documents) did not provide for the assignment of women. The result was that many good NCOs left the service. In addition, in part because of the limited jobs, there were more limited opportunities for NCO promotions. While these changes would have come in time, she was an active leader in pushing for more opportunity and greater equity.
Colonel Emily C. Gorman (USA-Retired), the sixth Director of the Women's Army Corps, died on July 4, 2005 following a stroke She was 96. She was a native of New York State and a graduate of Cornell University. She had been a teacher and was a personnel officer in Syracuse, NY when she enlisted in the WAAC in 1942.
She graduated from the WAAC Officer Candidate School, Ft Des Moines, IA with Class # 5. She was assigned to Washington DC where she served as the WAC staff advisor to the Surgeon General. At the end of the war she was sent to Berlin as the executive secretary for the Allied Control Authority. She recalled one meeting (when the Allies were cooperating) where she sat three rows behind General Dwight Eisenhower and Marshal Georgi Zhukov.
Colonel Gorman served several tours in Washington, DC, including one as Deputy Director/WAC, before being selected to replace WAC Director, Colonel Mary L. Milligan in February 1962. A Washington Post article appearing at the time noted: "Colonel Gorman is a trim, rather tiny lady with graying hair and a pert smile..She lives in a well appointed house, attends the theatre regularly, likes to cook and plays bridge. Military life does not preclude a varied and interesting private life, she points out."
In August 1966 she was succeeded by COL Elizabeth P. Hoisington. An article in the Post reported on a retirement reception and quoted Colonel Gorman as saying that her Army service was "the most wonderful 24 years a woman could ever have." Two quotes from generals attending the reception included: "Taking a peak into the future, one of the guests, LTG Ben Harold admitted the possibility that one day women might be called in to fight...on the battlefield." BG Frank Izenour added: "That's true. In fact, they're pretty good soldiers right now."
[Aside: Consider the women who have serving today combat in Iraq and Afghanistan, the women who have been killed in action or died as a result of their wounds, and the recent award of the Silver Star to SGT Hester. In fact, women are good soldiers. Right now. pj]
Colonel Gorman is well covered in "The Women's Army Corps 1945 to 1978" by Colonel Bettie J. Morden who cites many highlights from her tenure as Director. She led the fight to remove restrictions (imposed by law) on officer promotions that had limited women to the permanent grade of LTC. The only colonels authorized at the time were the corps' directors, one for the WAC and one for the AMEDD (ANC). While the law (PL 90-130, Nov 1967) wasn't changed until after her retirement, she was instrumental in moving it along through years of hurdles and reversals. The next summer saw the first group of non-director WAC colonels promoted (Woodworth, Branch, Michl, Kehrer, Carlson, and Guyette). The first generals were selected in early 1970 (Elizabeth P. Hoisington and Anna May Hayes ANC) and promoted that summer. COL Morden's book is available in its entirety on line at the Center for Military History web site at http://www.army.mil/cmh-pg/books/wac/.
She also worked to eliminate retirement inequities and pushed for implementation of interchangeable coding on TDAs opening positions and promotions for enlisted women and officers. The planning for the deployment of the WAC Detachment to Vietnam began under her tenure.
She is survived by a niece, Nancy Gorman of St Petersburg, FL and several great nephews. Burial will be in Pulaski, NY on Friday, July 15th. Additional details are pending.
Pat Jernigan
Emily Carla Gorman, 96, formerly of Pulaski, sixth director of the Women's Army Corps, died July 4 in St. Petersburg, Fla.
Miss Gorman served in the Army from 1942 to 1966, retiring as a colonel.
Born April 9, 1909, in Pulaski, daughter of John W. and Lydia Tackley Gorman, she was valedictorian of the Pulaski Academy Class of 1926.
She graduated in 1931 from Cornell University, Ithaca, where she was a member of Kappa Kappa Gamma, and did graduate work in English and education at Syracuse University and the University of Rochester.
She taught at high schools in Pulaski for 10 years, at Massena from 1936 to 1939 and then at Syracuse and Rochester.
She was engaged in personnel work in Syracuse and was a volunteer with the New York Office of Civilian Defense for Oswego County before entering the Women's Army Auxiliary Corps on July 30, 1942. She completed officer candidate school at Fort Des Moines, Iowa, and was assigned as chief of the administrative school of the first WAAC training center, Fort Des Moines.
Her major assignments in the WAC included service as WAC staff adviser to the surgeon general in 1944; assistant to the WAC director in 1947 in planning the organization of the training center at Fort Lee, Va., and service at the center from 1948 to 1951 as plans, operations and training officer, battalion commander and executive officer. She became WAC staff adviser of the 2nd Army, Fort George G. Meade, Md., in 1951 and was WAC deputy director from 1953 to 1957.
As a general staff officer of the Army, she was assistant chief of standards branch in the Office of the Surgeon General, Washington, D.C., in 1944; executive secretary for the Allied Control Authority in Berlin, Germany, from 1945 to 1946; operations and training staff officer at Fort Monroe, Va., from 1957 to 1960 and assistant chief of the foreign military training division, Office of the Deputy Chief of Staff for Military Operations, Department of the Army, from 1960 until her appointment as WAC director Aug. 1, 1962.
After retiring in 1966, she worked for the Office of Economic Opportunity.
She received a Distinguished Service Medal, an Army Commendation Medal, a WAC Service Medal, American and European-African-Middle Eastern campaign medals, a World War II Victory Medal, an Army of Occupation Medal, a National Defense Medal and a General Staff Identification Badge.
Miss Gorman was honored with a chair at the Women's Army Museum in Arlington (Va.) National Cemetery through funds raised by the village of Pulaski and with support from former state Sen. H. Douglas Barclay. In 1962, she received the Kappa Kappa Gamma Alumnae Achievement Award.
She was a member of the American Association of University Women, the Business and Professional Women's Club, the National Association of Women Deans and Counselors, Robert Edwards American Legion Post 358, Monday Historical Club and Northern Oswego County Ambulance. She also was a volunteer at Pulaski Public Library.
Surviving are a niece, Nancy Gorman, St. Petersburg, and four great-nephews.
A brother, Clarence J. Gorman, Oswego County assistant district attorney, died Dec. 14, 1946.
The funeral will be at 11 a.m. Friday at Pulaski Congregational Church with the Rev. James Tschudy officiating. Burial with military honors will be in Pulaski Cemetery.
Arrangements are with Foster-Hax Funeral Home.
Donations may be made to the Gorman/Richardson Fund at Pulaski Public Library or Robert Edwards American Legion Post 358.
Colonel Emily C. Gorman (USA-Retired), the sixth Director of the Women's Army Corps, died on July 4, 2005 following a stroke She was 96. She was a native of New York State and a graduate of Cornell University. She had been a teacher and was a personnel officer in Syracuse, NY when she enlisted in the WAAC in 1942.
She graduated from the WAAC Officer Candidate School, Ft Des Moines, IA with Class # 5. She was assigned to Washington DC where she served as the WAC staff advisor to the Surgeon General. At the end of the war she was sent to Berlin as the executive secretary for the Allied Control Authority. She recalled one meeting (when the Allies were cooperating) where she sat three rows behind General Dwight Eisenhower and Marshal Georgi Zhukov.
Colonel Gorman served several tours in Washington, DC, including one as Deputy Director/WAC, before being selected to replace WAC Director, Colonel Mary L. Milligan in February 1962. A Washington Post article appearing at the time noted: "Colonel Gorman is a trim, rather tiny lady with graying hair and a pert smile..She lives in a well appointed house, attends the theatre regularly, likes to cook and plays bridge. Military life does not preclude a varied and interesting private life, she points out."
In August 1966 she was succeeded by COL Elizabeth P. Hoisington. An article in the Post reported on a retirement reception and quoted Colonel Gorman as saying that her Army service was "the most wonderful 24 years a woman could ever have." Two quotes from generals attending the reception included: "Taking a peak into the future, one of the guests, LTG Ben Harold admitted the possibility that one day women might be called in to fight...on the battlefield." BG Frank Izenour added: "That's true. In fact, they're pretty good soldiers right now."
[Aside: Consider the women who have serving today combat in Iraq and Afghanistan, the women who have been killed in action or died as a result of their wounds, and the recent award of the Silver Star to SGT Hester. In fact, women are good soldiers. Right now. pj]
Colonel Gorman is well covered in "The Women's Army Corps 1945 to 1978" by Colonel Bettie J. Morden who cites many highlights from her tenure as Director. She led the fight to remove restrictions (imposed by law) on officer promotions that had limited women to the permanent grade of LTC. The only colonels authorized at the time were the corps' directors, one for the WAC and one for the AMEDD (ANC). While the law (PL 90-130, Nov 1967) wasn't changed until after her retirement, she was instrumental in moving it along through years of hurdles and reversals. The next summer saw the first group of non-director WAC colonels promoted (Woodworth, Branch, Michl, Kehrer, Carlson, and Guyette). The first generals were selected in early 1970 (Elizabeth P. Hoisington and Anna May Hayes ANC) and promoted that summer. COL Morden's book is available in its entirety on line at the Center for Military History web site at http://www.army.mil/cmh-pg/books/wac/.
She also worked to eliminate retirement inequities and pushed for implementation of interchangeable coding on TDAs opening positions and promotions for enlisted women and officers. The planning for the deployment of the WAC Detachment to Vietnam began under her tenure.
She is survived by a niece, Nancy Gorman of St Petersburg, FL and several great nephews. Burial will be in Pulaski, NY on Friday, July 15th. Additional details are pending.
Pat Jernigan
Emily Carla Gorman, 96, formerly of Pulaski, sixth director of the Women's Army Corps, died July 4 in St. Petersburg, Fla.
Miss Gorman served in the Army from 1942 to 1966, retiring as a colonel.
Born April 9, 1909, in Pulaski, daughter of John W. and Lydia Tackley Gorman, she was valedictorian of the Pulaski Academy Class of 1926.
She graduated in 1931 from Cornell University, Ithaca, where she was a member of Kappa Kappa Gamma, and did graduate work in English and education at Syracuse University and the University of Rochester.
She taught at high schools in Pulaski for 10 years, at Massena from 1936 to 1939 and then at Syracuse and Rochester.
She was engaged in personnel work in Syracuse and was a volunteer with the New York Office of Civilian Defense for Oswego County before entering the Women's Army Auxiliary Corps on July 30, 1942. She completed officer candidate school at Fort Des Moines, Iowa, and was assigned as chief of the administrative school of the first WAAC training center, Fort Des Moines.
Her major assignments in the WAC included service as WAC staff adviser to the surgeon general in 1944; assistant to the WAC director in 1947 in planning the organization of the training center at Fort Lee, Va., and service at the center from 1948 to 1951 as plans, operations and training officer, battalion commander and executive officer. She became WAC staff adviser of the 2nd Army, Fort George G. Meade, Md., in 1951 and was WAC deputy director from 1953 to 1957.
As a general staff officer of the Army, she was assistant chief of standards branch in the Office of the Surgeon General, Washington, D.C., in 1944; executive secretary for the Allied Control Authority in Berlin, Germany, from 1945 to 1946; operations and training staff officer at Fort Monroe, Va., from 1957 to 1960 and assistant chief of the foreign military training division, Office of the Deputy Chief of Staff for Military Operations, Department of the Army, from 1960 until her appointment as WAC director Aug. 1, 1962.
After retiring in 1966, she worked for the Office of Economic Opportunity.
She received a Distinguished Service Medal, an Army Commendation Medal, a WAC Service Medal, American and European-African-Middle Eastern campaign medals, a World War II Victory Medal, an Army of Occupation Medal, a National Defense Medal and a General Staff Identification Badge.
Miss Gorman was honored with a chair at the Women's Army Museum in Arlington (Va.) National Cemetery through funds raised by the village of Pulaski and with support from former state Sen. H. Douglas Barclay. In 1962, she received the Kappa Kappa Gamma Alumnae Achievement Award.
She was a member of the American Association of University Women, the Business and Professional Women's Club, the National Association of Women Deans and Counselors, Robert Edwards American Legion Post 358, Monday Historical Club and Northern Oswego County Ambulance. She also was a volunteer at Pulaski Public Library.
Surviving are a niece, Nancy Gorman, St. Petersburg, and four great-nephews.
A brother, Clarence J. Gorman, Oswego County assistant district attorney, died Dec. 14, 1946.
The funeral will be at 11 a.m. Friday at Pulaski Congregational Church with the Rev. James Tschudy officiating. Burial with military honors will be in Pulaski Cemetery.
Arrangements are with Foster-Hax Funeral Home.
Donations may be made to the Gorman/Richardson Fund at Pulaski Public Library or Robert Edwards American Legion Post 358.
Few of the younger generations have ever heard of her, but COL Gorman had great impact on women in the Army in the mid 1960s. At the time there were serious retention problems, particularly with WAC NCOs. Jobs that could be done by women under the rules at the time weren't open because TDAs (Tables of Distribution and Allowances, the manning documents) did not provide for the assignment of women. The result was that many good NCOs left the service. In addition, in part because of the limited jobs, there were more limited opportunities for NCO promotions. While these changes would have come in time, she was an active leader in pushing for more opportunity and greater equity.
Colonel Emily C. Gorman (USA-Retired), the sixth Director of the Women's Army Corps, died on July 4, 2005 following a stroke She was 96. She was a native of New York State and a graduate of Cornell University. She had been a teacher and was a personnel officer in Syracuse, NY when she enlisted in the WAAC in 1942.
She graduated from the WAAC Officer Candidate School, Ft Des Moines, IA with Class # 5. She was assigned to Washington DC where she served as the WAC staff advisor to the Surgeon General. At the end of the war she was sent to Berlin as the executive secretary for the Allied Control Authority. She recalled one meeting (when the Allies were cooperating) where she sat three rows behind General Dwight Eisenhower and Marshal Georgi Zhukov.
Colonel Gorman served several tours in Washington, DC, including one as Deputy Director/WAC, before being selected to replace WAC Director, Colonel Mary L. Milligan in February 1962. A Washington Post article appearing at the time noted: "Colonel Gorman is a trim, rather tiny lady with graying hair and a pert smile..She lives in a well appointed house, attends the theatre regularly, likes to cook and plays bridge. Military life does not preclude a varied and interesting private life, she points out."
In August 1966 she was succeeded by COL Elizabeth P. Hoisington. An article in the Post reported on a retirement reception and quoted Colonel Gorman as saying that her Army service was "the most wonderful 24 years a woman could ever have." Two quotes from generals attending the reception included: "Taking a peak into the future, one of the guests, LTG Ben Harold admitted the possibility that one day women might be called in to fight...on the battlefield." BG Frank Izenour added: "That's true. In fact, they're pretty good soldiers right now."
[Aside: Consider the women who have serving today combat in Iraq and Afghanistan, the women who have been killed in action or died as a result of their wounds, and the recent award of the Silver Star to SGT Hester. In fact, women are good soldiers. Right now. pj]
Colonel Gorman is well covered in "The Women's Army Corps 1945 to 1978" by Colonel Bettie J. Morden who cites many highlights from her tenure as Director. She led the fight to remove restrictions (imposed by law) on officer promotions that had limited women to the permanent grade of LTC. The only colonels authorized at the time were the corps' directors, one for the WAC and one for the AMEDD (ANC). While the law (PL 90-130, Nov 1967) wasn't changed until after her retirement, she was instrumental in moving it along through years of hurdles and reversals. The next summer saw the first group of non-director WAC colonels promoted (Woodworth, Branch, Michl, Kehrer, Carlson, and Guyette). The first generals were selected in early 1970 (Elizabeth P. Hoisington and Anna May Hayes ANC) and promoted that summer. COL Morden's book is available in its entirety on line at the Center for Military History web site at http://www.army.mil/cmh-pg/books/wac/.
She also worked to eliminate retirement inequities and pushed for implementation of interchangeable coding on TDAs opening positions and promotions for enlisted women and officers. The planning for the deployment of the WAC Detachment to Vietnam began under her tenure.
She is survived by a niece, Nancy Gorman of St Petersburg, FL and several great nephews. Burial will be in Pulaski, NY on Friday, July 15th. Additional details are pending.
Pat Jernigan
Emily Carla Gorman, 96, formerly of Pulaski, sixth director of the Women's Army Corps, died July 4 in St. Petersburg, Fla.
Miss Gorman served in the Army from 1942 to 1966, retiring as a colonel.
Born April 9, 1909, in Pulaski, daughter of John W. and Lydia Tackley Gorman, she was valedictorian of the Pulaski Academy Class of 1926.
She graduated in 1931 from Cornell University, Ithaca, where she was a member of Kappa Kappa Gamma, and did graduate work in English and education at Syracuse University and the University of Rochester.
She taught at high schools in Pulaski for 10 years, at Massena from 1936 to 1939 and then at Syracuse and Rochester.
She was engaged in personnel work in Syracuse and was a volunteer with the New York Office of Civilian Defense for Oswego County before entering the Women's Army Auxiliary Corps on July 30, 1942. She completed officer candidate school at Fort Des Moines, Iowa, and was assigned as chief of the administrative school of the first WAAC training center, Fort Des Moines.
Her major assignments in the WAC included service as WAC staff adviser to the surgeon general in 1944; assistant to the WAC director in 1947 in planning the organization of the training center at Fort Lee, Va., and service at the center from 1948 to 1951 as plans, operations and training officer, battalion commander and executive officer. She became WAC staff adviser of the 2nd Army, Fort George G. Meade, Md., in 1951 and was WAC deputy director from 1953 to 1957.
As a general staff officer of the Army, she was assistant chief of standards branch in the Office of the Surgeon General, Washington, D.C., in 1944; executive secretary for the Allied Control Authority in Berlin, Germany, from 1945 to 1946; operations and training staff officer at Fort Monroe, Va., from 1957 to 1960 and assistant chief of the foreign military training division, Office of the Deputy Chief of Staff for Military Operations, Department of the Army, from 1960 until her appointment as WAC director Aug. 1, 1962.
After retiring in 1966, she worked for the Office of Economic Opportunity.
She received a Distinguished Service Medal, an Army Commendation Medal, a WAC Service Medal, American and European-African-Middle Eastern campaign medals, a World War II Victory Medal, an Army of Occupation Medal, a National Defense Medal and a General Staff Identification Badge.
Miss Gorman was honored with a chair at the Women's Army Museum in Arlington (Va.) National Cemetery through funds raised by the village of Pulaski and with support from former state Sen. H. Douglas Barclay. In 1962, she received the Kappa Kappa Gamma Alumnae Achievement Award.
She was a member of the American Association of University Women, the Business and Professional Women's Club, the National Association of Women Deans and Counselors, Robert Edwards American Legion Post 358, Monday Historical Club and Northern Oswego County Ambulance. She also was a volunteer at Pulaski Public Library.
Surviving are a niece, Nancy Gorman, St. Petersburg, and four great-nephews.
A brother, Clarence J. Gorman, Oswego County assistant district attorney, died Dec. 14, 1946.
The funeral will be at 11 a.m. Friday at Pulaski Congregational Church with the Rev. James Tschudy officiating. Burial with military honors will be in Pulaski Cemetery.
Arrangements are with Foster-Hax Funeral Home.
Donations may be made to the Gorman/Richardson Fund at Pulaski Public Library or Robert Edwards American Legion Post 358.
Colonel Emily C. Gorman (USA-Retired), the sixth Director of the Women's Army Corps, died on July 4, 2005 following a stroke She was 96. She was a native of New York State and a graduate of Cornell University. She had been a teacher and was a personnel officer in Syracuse, NY when she enlisted in the WAAC in 1942.
She graduated from the WAAC Officer Candidate School, Ft Des Moines, IA with Class # 5. She was assigned to Washington DC where she served as the WAC staff advisor to the Surgeon General. At the end of the war she was sent to Berlin as the executive secretary for the Allied Control Authority. She recalled one meeting (when the Allies were cooperating) where she sat three rows behind General Dwight Eisenhower and Marshal Georgi Zhukov.
Colonel Gorman served several tours in Washington, DC, including one as Deputy Director/WAC, before being selected to replace WAC Director, Colonel Mary L. Milligan in February 1962. A Washington Post article appearing at the time noted: "Colonel Gorman is a trim, rather tiny lady with graying hair and a pert smile..She lives in a well appointed house, attends the theatre regularly, likes to cook and plays bridge. Military life does not preclude a varied and interesting private life, she points out."
In August 1966 she was succeeded by COL Elizabeth P. Hoisington. An article in the Post reported on a retirement reception and quoted Colonel Gorman as saying that her Army service was "the most wonderful 24 years a woman could ever have." Two quotes from generals attending the reception included: "Taking a peak into the future, one of the guests, LTG Ben Harold admitted the possibility that one day women might be called in to fight...on the battlefield." BG Frank Izenour added: "That's true. In fact, they're pretty good soldiers right now."
[Aside: Consider the women who have serving today combat in Iraq and Afghanistan, the women who have been killed in action or died as a result of their wounds, and the recent award of the Silver Star to SGT Hester. In fact, women are good soldiers. Right now. pj]
Colonel Gorman is well covered in "The Women's Army Corps 1945 to 1978" by Colonel Bettie J. Morden who cites many highlights from her tenure as Director. She led the fight to remove restrictions (imposed by law) on officer promotions that had limited women to the permanent grade of LTC. The only colonels authorized at the time were the corps' directors, one for the WAC and one for the AMEDD (ANC). While the law (PL 90-130, Nov 1967) wasn't changed until after her retirement, she was instrumental in moving it along through years of hurdles and reversals. The next summer saw the first group of non-director WAC colonels promoted (Woodworth, Branch, Michl, Kehrer, Carlson, and Guyette). The first generals were selected in early 1970 (Elizabeth P. Hoisington and Anna May Hayes ANC) and promoted that summer. COL Morden's book is available in its entirety on line at the Center for Military History web site at http://www.army.mil/cmh-pg/books/wac/.
She also worked to eliminate retirement inequities and pushed for implementation of interchangeable coding on TDAs opening positions and promotions for enlisted women and officers. The planning for the deployment of the WAC Detachment to Vietnam began under her tenure.
She is survived by a niece, Nancy Gorman of St Petersburg, FL and several great nephews. Burial will be in Pulaski, NY on Friday, July 15th. Additional details are pending.
Pat Jernigan
Emily Carla Gorman, 96, formerly of Pulaski, sixth director of the Women's Army Corps, died July 4 in St. Petersburg, Fla.
Miss Gorman served in the Army from 1942 to 1966, retiring as a colonel.
Born April 9, 1909, in Pulaski, daughter of John W. and Lydia Tackley Gorman, she was valedictorian of the Pulaski Academy Class of 1926.
She graduated in 1931 from Cornell University, Ithaca, where she was a member of Kappa Kappa Gamma, and did graduate work in English and education at Syracuse University and the University of Rochester.
She taught at high schools in Pulaski for 10 years, at Massena from 1936 to 1939 and then at Syracuse and Rochester.
She was engaged in personnel work in Syracuse and was a volunteer with the New York Office of Civilian Defense for Oswego County before entering the Women's Army Auxiliary Corps on July 30, 1942. She completed officer candidate school at Fort Des Moines, Iowa, and was assigned as chief of the administrative school of the first WAAC training center, Fort Des Moines.
Her major assignments in the WAC included service as WAC staff adviser to the surgeon general in 1944; assistant to the WAC director in 1947 in planning the organization of the training center at Fort Lee, Va., and service at the center from 1948 to 1951 as plans, operations and training officer, battalion commander and executive officer. She became WAC staff adviser of the 2nd Army, Fort George G. Meade, Md., in 1951 and was WAC deputy director from 1953 to 1957.
As a general staff officer of the Army, she was assistant chief of standards branch in the Office of the Surgeon General, Washington, D.C., in 1944; executive secretary for the Allied Control Authority in Berlin, Germany, from 1945 to 1946; operations and training staff officer at Fort Monroe, Va., from 1957 to 1960 and assistant chief of the foreign military training division, Office of the Deputy Chief of Staff for Military Operations, Department of the Army, from 1960 until her appointment as WAC director Aug. 1, 1962.
After retiring in 1966, she worked for the Office of Economic Opportunity.
She received a Distinguished Service Medal, an Army Commendation Medal, a WAC Service Medal, American and European-African-Middle Eastern campaign medals, a World War II Victory Medal, an Army of Occupation Medal, a National Defense Medal and a General Staff Identification Badge.
Miss Gorman was honored with a chair at the Women's Army Museum in Arlington (Va.) National Cemetery through funds raised by the village of Pulaski and with support from former state Sen. H. Douglas Barclay. In 1962, she received the Kappa Kappa Gamma Alumnae Achievement Award.
She was a member of the American Association of University Women, the Business and Professional Women's Club, the National Association of Women Deans and Counselors, Robert Edwards American Legion Post 358, Monday Historical Club and Northern Oswego County Ambulance. She also was a volunteer at Pulaski Public Library.
Surviving are a niece, Nancy Gorman, St. Petersburg, and four great-nephews.
A brother, Clarence J. Gorman, Oswego County assistant district attorney, died Dec. 14, 1946.
The funeral will be at 11 a.m. Friday at Pulaski Congregational Church with the Rev. James Tschudy officiating. Burial with military honors will be in Pulaski Cemetery.
Arrangements are with Foster-Hax Funeral Home.
Donations may be made to the Gorman/Richardson Fund at Pulaski Public Library or Robert Edwards American Legion Post 358.
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