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From the April 1931 issue of American Rifleman magazine, an obituary for Cora E. Hagaman as follows: It will be a cause for regret to Sea Girt shooters to learn that Miss Cora E. Hagaman, private secretary to Brig. Gen. Bird W. Spencer for the past 21 years, died in the Passaic (N.J.) General Hospital February 17. Miss Hagaman was apparently in good health until the latter part of December when she contracted a severe case of the "flu". She partly recovered and returned to her work with the Department of Rifle Practice of the State of New Jersey. Soon thereafter, however, an infection set in and she was removed to the hospital, where septic poisoning soon brought the end. Interment was at Avon, N.J. As nearly every Eastern rifleman knows, Cora Hagaman has been the unassuming but extremely eficient office manager of every Sea Girt Interstate Rifle Tournament in recent years. She has handled the preliminary details, the preparation of programs, printing and mailing, has selected the very attractive Sea Girt gold-medal and other prizes, has taken care of the accounts, prepared the bulletins for the military matches, worked on publicity, and has performed numberless difficult tasks that come up in the operation of any large series of pistol and rifle competitions. Miss Hagaman has been General Spencer's "right-hand man" for so many years that only those who have worked in the statistical office can appreciate the extent to which she has been instrumental in making Sea Girt Rifle and Pistol Tournaments pleasant and successful and a Mecca for you. When the evening light again shines on the Sea Girt range in operation, the flag hangs lazily on the staff at headquarters, and the breeze drifts softly in off the Atlantic; when the shooters gather quietly on the clubhouse porch to discuss the events and scores of the years gone by, they will be minus one whose work has been as closely linked with the history of this memorable spot as that of the valiant but aging figure of the General. In numberless ways Miss Cora Hagaman has been a credit to Eastern military and small-bore pistol and rifle-shooting.
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