Alice Gorman

Alice Larsen Gorman, 79, of Uvalde, Texas died Tuesday, March 8th, 2011 at San Antonios VitasMethodist Hospice. She had resided in Uvalde since 1968.
Alice was born in Port Arthur, TX after her immediate relatives immigrated there from Norway decades earlier to work in the maritime industry. She was a Trinity University graduate, music major, and member of the Trinity Trio vocal ensemble which represented the school at many local and statewide events during the 1940s and 1950s. She taught kindergarten and elementary school music in Port Arthur and San Angelo, TX, and instructed piano and voice students in her home up until her recent illness. She married Bill Gorman, also of Port Arthur, in 1955 after he returned home from naval service in the Korean War. A year later, they moved to San Angelo where they started a family and worked for 13 years before moving to Laredo briefly and then eventually settled in Uvalde.
Alice cherished sacred and classical music, directed several church choirs, sang often as a soloist, and was in many community choirs and seasonal cantatas. She would have agreed with poet, Alphonse de Lamartine, that music is the literature of the heart, commencing where speech ends the medicine of the mind that Oscar Wilde called the art which is most nigh to tears and memory. She also enjoyed her several sheltie dogs, many arts and crafts, caring for her plants and flowers, and working as a personal color consultant with Beauty for all Seasons. In the last decade, she created many great memories from extensive travel abroad, and as a lifelong learner gained several computer skills to enhance her communication with family and friends. She was most grateful for all of her extended family, and especially as an only child growing up and a widow in later years, was proverbially blessed by many who exemplified that a friend can be closer than a brother fellow members of First Presbyterian Church, the Uvalde Garden Club members, her dear Trinity University classmates, her loving neighbors, and those with whom she so often relished playing duplicate bridge.
As a cord of three strands in not easily broken, the tight relational cords of her life were loosed only by divinelynumbered days: a steadfast faith in Jesus Christ as her Savior and only eternal hope, an otherminded spirit, lover of life, generous gentle disposition, and a spirit of thankfulness that acknowledged Gods grace alone sustained her daily.
Over the course of her life, though, she was foremost a devoted granddaughter, daughter, wife, mother, and grandmother a faithful lover of God, family, and friends who remained steadfastly committed to her immediate family as well as many lifelong friends. She was a diligent and indefatigable Proverbs 31 homemaker while raising a family with Bill and in their later years together as emptynesters. Her faithful resolve, optimistic attitude, and patient understanding of Providence enabled her to endure the difficulties of moving a family several times during her married life and becoming widowed in 1997 after 42 years of marriage. Additionally preceding her in death were her parents, Bert and Margaret Larsen of Port Arthur, TX.
Alice has two surviving sons who are so grateful to God for the mother He gave them: Phil Gorman and wife, Frances, of Sealy, TX and Paul Gorman and wife, Debbie, of Johnson City, TN. She is also survived by 5 beloved adult grandchildren: Aubrey and Buster Gorman of Sealy, TX and Mark, Laura, and Lisa Gorman of Johnson City, TN.
A private interment will be held by the immediate family at Greenlawn Cemetery in Port Arthur. A memorial celebration of life service and reception will be held at First Presbyterian Church of Uvalde at 1 p.m. on Saturday, April 16th.
Condolences and memories may be shared with the family and viewed at the RushingEstesKnowles Funeral Home website at www.rekfunerals.com. In lieu of flowers, memorials may be made to ones faithbased charity of choice or Trinity University Development Office at One Trinity Place, 49, San Antonio, Texas 782127200.

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