Obit for Gordon, Eunice - Oklahoma County OK

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::Brumfield Cemetery--Seiling OK

Eunice Gordon

SHATTUCK - Eunice Gordon, 85, died Saturday, Jan. 8, 2000.

A celebration of life service will be at 10 a.m. Saturday in United 
Methodist Church in Shattuck with the Rev. Jess Willsie, the Rev. 
Lenn Murray and the Rev. Melvin Rittenhouse officiating. Graveside 
services were held Saturday in Brumfield Cemetery in Seiling, Okla., 
by Good Samaritan Funeral Service of Shattuck.

Mrs. Gordon was born in Seiling where she grew up and graduated from 
high school in 1929. She received her teaching degree from Oklahoma 
College for Women and later received her master's degree in home 
economics from Oklahoma State University.

In 1940, Mrs. Gordon moved from Sayre to Shattuck where she taught 
home economics at Shattuck High School, retiring in 1975. In 1995, 
she was awarded an Honorary Membership in the Oklahoma Association of 
Future Homemakers of America Vocational and Technical Education.

She was a member of the Re-Organized Church of Jesus Christ of 
Latter-day Saints and an associate member of the United Methodist 
Church. She also was a member of the Eastern Star, National 
Vocational Teachers Association, the Retired Teachers Association, 
Federated Women's Club and Delta Kappa Gamma. In 1992, she moved to 
Oklahoma City.

She married Z.V. Gordon in 1938 at Seiling. He died in 1980.

Survivors include two daughters, Linda Willsie and Ann Farrar, both 
of Shattuck; a brother, Eldon Ballinger of Dallas; and two 
grandchildren.

The family suggest memorials be to Susanna Wesley Center of Epworth 
Villa Retirement Center or to the Mission Hospice of Oklahoma City.

Amarillo Daily News, Jan. 14, 2000
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