A FIGHTER for disability rights, who lost her legs to frostbite after going missing in the alps for four days, is set to have a Wodonga park named in her honour.
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Recognition for two other reserves will also be debated at the same time, they are Whitla Park and Haeusler Park.
The first salutes late Wodonga Technical School vice-principal Charles Whitla and the second a family of German immigrants who walked from South Australia to Wodonga and ran a farm on land now home to the city's golf course.
Mrs Elford's widower Hugh Elford was thrilled at the prospect of the parkland, enclosed by Acacia Crescent and a street back from Melrose Drive, bearing his wife's name.
"I feel very honoured on her behalf, I think it's wonderful news," Mr Elford said.
"She did so much for amputees and she also helped with other services for people with a disability in a huge way."
As a 20 year-old, Mrs Elford spent four nights without warm clothing lost in freezing temperatures on Mount Donna Buang in August 1953 and as a result of frostbite both her legs below her knees were amputated.
Mr Whitla's widow Jean Whitla is also appreciative of the council's decision to mark her husband, who died in 1985.
"Chas did so much for Wodonga and so much for young people," Mrs Whitla said.
"He was a Mr Chips in his own way," she said, likening him to the fictional teacher played by actors Robert Donat and Peter O'Toole in film versions of the book Goodbye, Mr Chips.
Mr Whitla's park, which can already be seen on Google maps, lies between Nicholson and Fisher courts in Federation Park.
Mr Whitla received a Wodonga Council community service award in 1979 and British Empire Medal in 1980 for promoting firearm safety among students.
He started a shooting instruction course in 1958 at Wangaratta and taught more than 2000 children about gun security.
