THE VIRGINIAN-PILOT
Copyright (c) 1996, Landmark Communications, Inc.
DATE: Wednesday, April 17, 1996 TAG: 9604170321
SECTION: LOCAL PAGE: B4 EDITION: FINAL
DATELINE: VIRGINIA BEACH LENGTH: Short : 47 lines
Rose Gail Chenman, 79, of 700 Oriole Drive, died April 15, 1996, in Virginia Beach General Hospital.
Miss Chenman, a native of Norfolk, was the daughter of the late Leon and Sonia Chenman and a member of Temple Emanuel. A graduate of Maury High School, she held a B.A. degree from the College of William and Mary. She also attended Cornell University and the Graduate School of Social Work at the University of Southern California in Los Angeles.
During World War II, she was assigned to various military hospitals as a social worker for National Headquarters of the American Red Cross. After the war, she was a relief social worker with the American Red Cross Disaster Service on numerous tornado/flood rehabilation operations throughout the United States. She was one of 11 Red Cross social workers from military installations throughout the country selected for special assignment and training at St. Elizabeth's Hospital in Washington, D.C., during the war and received a military citation from the Fifth Army Services Command, Camp Pickett, Virginia, 1945-46, for outstanding and meritorious service.
In 1954, she left her profession as a social worker and began a training program with Merrill Lynch, Pierce, Fenner and Smith and was the only woman in a class with 39 men. Passing the examination, she became a registered representative of the New York Stock Exchange, becoming the first woman stock broker in the state of Virginia.
She was a life member and a past president of the Tidewater Section of the National Council of Jewish Women; a life member of the Women's Committee of Brandeis University and of Hadassah.
Her survivors include a brother and sister-in-law, Sol and Bertha Chenman; a sister and brother-in-law, Mary and Gene Hirschfeld, all of Virginia Beach; and a sister, Dottie-Jean Goodman of Atlanta; five nephews; four nieces; and several great-nephews and nieces.
A graveside service will be conducted at 11 a.m. Thursday, April 18, 1996, at Hebrew Cemetery, Norfolk, by Rabbi Elliott Marmon. The family will receive friends Thursday from 3:30 until 8:30 p.m. at the Meeting Room at Cove Point, 700 Oriole Drive, Virginia Beach. Memorial donations may be made to the American Cancer Society or the American Red Cross. H.D. Oliver Funeral Apts., Laskin Road Chapel, are handling arrangements.
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