PEG & JERRY GORMAN • 5 CEDAR HILL ROAD
They made room.
One young person came through the door needing a family. Over time, fifty-seven foster children would be welcomed into the Gorman home.
The story was never about a perfect house. It was about people who kept showing up.
AN ORDINARY HOME
A home that kept saying yes.
Peg and Jerry Gorman did not begin with fifty-seven. They began by making room for one.
The life inside Cedar Hill was made of ordinary things: meals, homework, rules, laughter, disagreements, expectations, forgiveness, and the decision to still be there tomorrow.
The number is remarkable. The daily faithfulness is the story.
TED & JERRY
Family is sometimes built by showing up.
Ted entered the Gorman home as a young person who needed a family. Jerry became far more than a foster parent in Ted’s life.
The relationship was not defined by paperwork. It was lived over time — through patience, responsibility, presence, and the ordinary work of family.
“Someone left a light on for me. Now it is my turn to leave one on.” — Theodore “Ted” Johnson
THE NUMBER CAME LATER
It started with one.
One young person. One family willing to make room. One open door.
Ted was the first.
Peg and Jerry Gorman eventually welcomed fifty-seven foster children into their home.
WHAT THE HOUSE REPRESENTED
Room to belong. Room to grow.
Cedar Hill mattered because it became a place where young people could experience the routines, expectations, care, and continuity of family life.
We do not tell the stories of the other fifty-six for them. Those stories belong to them.
We can honor what is known — and leave room for the rest to be told in their own voices.
THE LIGHT IS STILL ON
The story asks something of us.
Not to become the Gormans. Not to do everything. Simply to notice where we can make room for one person.