ELEANOR WINIFRED GAMBLE

ELEANOR WINIFRED GAMBLE, 91, died Friday, November 6, 2009, following an extended illness. She was born October 19, 1918, in Hingham, Massachusetts to William Raymond and Gertrude Elizabeth McNulty.She was a graduate Cum Laude with Honor of the University of New Hampshire in 1940 with a B.S. degree where she was President of the Women's Athletic Association and Captain of the Field Hockey and Basketball Teams.Eleanor married Dr. Jess Franklin Gamble, M.D. on March 30, 1942 in Carlisle Barracks, Pennsylvania. They met at Walter Reed General Hospital in Washington, D.C. where he was an Intern and she a Dietitian. They moved numerous times during WWII where he served in the United States Army Medical Corps from 1941-1946, holding the rank of Colonel and serving as Commander of the 188th Medical Battalion. They lived in Columbus, Ohio from 1946 to 1949, where he was a Resident in Internal Medicine and Instructor at Ohio State University Hospital.She moved to Houston with her husband and first two children in 1949 where he served as Assistant Chief and later Chief of Medicine at the VA Hospital, then entered private practice for medicine from 1952 to 1961 and in 1962 became a fulltime staff member of The University of Texas M.D. Anderson Hospital and Tumor Institute where he was a Professor of Medicine at the time of his retirement in 1980. Eleanor was a devoted wife, mother, grandmother and aunt. Although she lived in Houston over sixty years, she never lost her Boston accent.She was preceded in death by her husband, parents, and brother, William Raymond McNulty, Jr. She is survived by her son, John Franklin and wife Georgia of Austin and grandchildren Jessica Lanehart and Robert Franklin Gamble, daughter Eleanor Ann Gamble of Houston, son William Raymond and wife Alice Gault and grandchildren Christine Meagan and Catherine Meredith Gamble of Houston, and numerous nieces and nephews.Services and burial will be alongside her husband at the Arlington National Cemetery in Arlington, Virginia. In lieu of flowers, the family requests that memorial contributions be made to M.D. Anderson Cancer Center or the charity of one's choice.