March 11, 2021
Patricia Coleman Gehron, 91, died peacefully at home at The Moorings at Lewes surrounded by her loving family Saturday, March 6, 2021. Pat was born in New York City, the daughter of Frank J. Coleman, a federal judge for the Southern District of New York, and Marjorie Sands Coleman, chief librarian for the Federal Courts.
Pat lived her early years in Larchmont, N.Y., and attended Marymount College in Tarrytown, N.Y. She left in her senior year in 1950 to marry her husband, William J. Gehron, who was recalled in the Korean War after service in World War II. Pat subsequently received her bachelor’s degree through courses taken at American University in Washington, D.C., while living in Alexandria, Va., in 1973. After the Korean War, Pat resided with her husband in White Plains, N.Y., before moving to Alexandria in 1957 where she and her husband spent the next 50 years, before moving to Lewes in 2007. She moved with her husband to Geneva, Switzerland twice