Dorothy Kulp Gerson, 99, a former music teacher at Springside School in Chestnut Hill, died Dec. 30, of respiratory failure at Spring House Estates, the retirement community in Lower Gwynedd.
A memorial service was set for 1 p.m. Thursday, March 22, in the auditorium at the Estates, 728 Norristown Rd., Lower Gwynedd.
Born in Philadelphia, Mrs. Gerson graduated from Germantown High School in 1930 and earned an associate degree in music at a junior college in Massachusetts in 1932.
Mrs. Gerson began at Springside as a music volunteer in the 1950s and was coordinator of instrumental music and choral conductor from the 1960's into the 1980s, her daughter Barbara Machler said.
