John Gorman

Funeral Services were held 2:00 P.M., Thursday, December 13, 1984 at the Aurora United Methodist Church. Interment was held in the Aurora Cemetery.

OBITUARY: John Gorman

John Lee Gorman, was born July 2, 1909, in Manhattan, New York City, New York, and passed away December 10, 1984, at Aurora, Nebraska, at the age of 75 years, 8 months and 8 days. He was baptized in the Catholic Church on East 69th Street in New York.

John came to Nebraska with a train load of orphans, when he was 3 ½ years old. John was taken by a family, their name was John and Sarah McMullen. He was never adopted by this family.

John served as an altar boy and was confirmed in the Catholic Church at McCool Junction, Nebraska. He was at Boys Town in Omaha and was an altar boy and serves as house boy for Father Flanagan.

When he was 16, he and a friend went to a protestant church in York and there John accepted Jesus as his Lord and Savior. He felt God was calling him to the ministry soon afterward.

John attended John Flecher Academy in Iowa, Bresea Bible College in Kansas, Pasadena College in California and Wesley Seminary in Washington, D.C.

On September 24, 1933, he was united in marriage to Myrtle Marler, at Aurora, Nebraska. In 1936, John was ordained at Open Bible Church in Des Moines, Iowa. They traveled in Evangelistic services for 25 years, in most of the states and two years in Canada.

In 1956, the Gormans accepted a pastorate in the United Methodist Church at Ringglold, Pennsylvania. He was ordained in the Methodist Church in 1961, at Meadville, Pennsylvania. They served at Sligo, Pennsylvania for 5 years, Beverly, Ohio for 4 years, Harrison, Nebraska for 5 years and Pleasanton and Ravenna Zion, Nebraska for 8 years.

In 1979, John retired and the Gormans moved to Aurora. His health had been failing before retirement. He had spent the last 4 years as a patient in the Long Term Care unit of the Aurora Memorial Hospital.

He leaves his wife Myrtle, a foster sister Altha Lundy of Arapahoe, Nebraska, and other relatives and friends. He was preceded in death by his foster parents.