Kate’s Notes: There is at least one minor error in this obituary. Rhoda Gillelan was 72 when she died, not 74. Also, according to the military records I was able to find, she served overseas for 6 months, not nine. Her military records are provided following the transcription of the obituary.
Rhoda was not the only Gillelan woman from Emmitsburg to have served in the Army Nurse Corps. Marianne Gillelan Korminski served overseas during WWII and finished her service as a 1st Lieutenant.

The Gettysburg Times
Gettysburg, PA 
26 January, 1957

NURSE EXPIRES IN EMMITSBURG

   Miss Rhoda H. Gillelan, 74, a registered nurse, died this morning at 1 o’clock at her home on Main St., Emmitsburg, after a year’s illness.
   A daughter of the late George L. and Ida S.(Ohler) Gillelan, she is survived by a brother, J. T. Gillelan, Baltimore, and a sister, Miss Ruth Gillelan, Emmitsburg, with whom she resided.
   She was a member of the Emmitsburg Presbyterian Church, treasurer of the church and a teacher of a Bible class.
   She served in the Nurses Corps in 1917 and 1918, serving nine months of that time overseas. She was a member of Post No. 44 of the American Legion made up of members of the Nurses Corp.
   Funeral services will be held Monday afternoon at 2 o’clock from the Allison Funeral home, Emmitsburg, with the Rev. Edward Davison and the Rev. Philip Bower officiating. Interment in the Elias Lutheran Cemetery, Emmitsburg. Friends may call at the funeral home in Emmitsburg Sunday evening after 7 o’clock. The family has asked that flowers be omitted. Military rites for the funeral will be provided by the Francis X. Elder post of the American Legion.

-transcription by Kate Maynard, 2012

Comments: A photo of Rhoda Gillelan’s grave can be found at this link, as part of the cemetery report for St. Elias Lutheran Cemetery at Emmitsburg: http://www.gillilandtrails.org/images/cemeteries/StElias_RhodaH.jpg

Service record: 
WWI Army Nurses Corp
Birth Date: 12 Nov 1885
Comment: ANC 6/29/18 nurse, Base Hosp Camp Meade Md.; Mob Sta New York N.Y. 10/28/18; 69 Base Hosp 11/16/18; 119 Base Hosp 12/-/18; 69 Base Hosp 2/19/19; Demobilization Station New York N.Y. 5/22/19, Hon discharge 6/11/19, Overseas 11/16/18 to 5/22/19