In 1930 she graduated from high school in Bordentown, New Jersey, and used a $300 scholarship to enroll in Home Economics at Hampton Institute.
[1] A public lecture on education, delivered in Accra in 1935, was welcomed by the African Morning Post.
[2] World War II disrupted Charity Zormelo's efforts to pursue study in the United States for a Masters in Education.
With her husband, other staff and students she toured southern Eweland - in both the Gold Coast and Togoland - with his play Toko Atolia.
Intending to return to the United States to continue study after the war, she died aged 41 on 14 October 1945.