Hanover, N.H. —
She is survived by her three children, Eleanor G. Nalle and her husband Peter D. Nalle of Philadelphia, John K. Graham and his wife Kerry Munro of Concord, Mass., David M. Graham and his wife Lee Shippey of Glens Falls, N.Y.; grandsons Graham Nalle, Tyler Graham, Jay Graham, David Graham and Robert Graham; and four great-grandchildren: Alistair, Clara, Loewy and Wallace.
She attended Skidmore College but her studies were interrupted by World War II. She was the first woman from New York to enlist in the then newly formed Women’s Army Corps (WAC) and served as a statistician at the Enid Army Air Field in Oklahoma. She married George Graham in 1944, and after the war was won lived briefly in Michigan and Maine before settling in Johnstown, N.Y. to raise her family. In Johnstown she was a Sunday school teacher at Saint John’s Episcopal Church and a member of the Royal Mountain Ski Club. Nora and George later retired to Hanover where they lived for 43 years. They were members of Saint Thomas Episcopal Church in Hanover.
Nora enjoyed reading, country music, playing the piano, studying Italian, foreign travel, horseback riding, skiing, making “aggression cookies” and paddling her canoe La Nonna. She was particularly fond of expanding her friendships among those of her family and others, enthusiastically welcoming new friends over nine decades. She taught her children to be flexible and accepting of new ideas and different people, and in the process welcomed the opportunity to learn from their experiences. Nora was a compassionate owner of numerous dogs, cats, horses and other pets.
Interment in the columbarium at Saint Thomas will be private. Nora’s friends and family are invited to a memorial service at Kendal at Hanover, 80 Lyme Road, Hanover, N.H. on Saturday, April 14 at 3 p.m.