Florence Gordon of Crawfordsville, formerly of Mace, passed away Saturday, April 22, 2023, at Compassus Hospice. She was 92.
Born Nov. 24, 1930, at Morris, Minnesota, she was the daughter of Charles H. Herman and Tressa Lutterman Herman. She graduated from Wykoff High School in Wykoff, Minnesota. She married Arthur H. Gordon on March 25, 1953, at Yuma, Arizona. He passed away Aug. 25, 2009.
Mrs. Gordon was an active member of the “Golden Girls,” homemaker’s club and attended the Mace United Methodist Church. She started her career in high school helping to run a small town’s telephone company as a switchboard operator and later for Bell Telephone in Minneapolis. As well as raising her family she was dispatcher for National Trailer Convoy assigning drivers to deliver trailers from Prowler Travel Trailer in Crawfordsville, then retired from Alcoa in the shipping department.
Surviving family includes: two daughters, Sandra (Bill) Henderson and Dawn (Ron) Parry; two sons, Paul Gordon (Dianne) and David Gordon; grandchildren, Joshua, Joey, Jeremy, Brandon, Jennifer, Toby, Tressa, Samantha, Crystal and Amber;
14 great-grandchildren; and several nieces, nephews, great-nieces and great-nephews.
She was preceded in death by her parents, husband, four brothers and one sister.
Visitation will be noon to 2:30 p.m. Thursday, April 27 at Burkhart Funeral Home. Services will begin at 2:30 p.m., led by Pastor Tami Mussche. After the service, she will be laid to rest at Mace Cemetery.
It is difficult to squeeze almost 100 years of living into a few paragraphs but her most loved accomplishment was being a part of and helping her family grow, dropping everything she may be doing for herself to help. So with that in mind, if you would like to make a donation in her memory, she was very fond of the work and help provided by the Women’s Resource Center, 407 E. Market St., Suite 106, Crawfordsville, IN 47933.
Online condolences may be made at www.BurkhartFH.com.
