Obit of Gordon, E Verne (g635) - Washington County, Oklahoma Submitted by: Gene Phillips 1 Sep 2004 Return to Washington County Archives: http://www.usgwarchives.net/ok/washington/washington.html ========================================================================== USGENWEB NOTICE Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm ========================================================================== E. Verne Gordon E. Verne Gordon, 85, of Amarillo, died Thursday, Jan. 21, 1999. Services will be at 2 p.m. today in Westminster Presbyterian Church with the Rev. Ron Holmes and the Rev. John A. Gordon, a retired Presbyterian minister, officiating. Burial will be in Llano Cemetery by Schooler Funeral Home, 4100 S. Georgia. Mr. Gordon was born in Glenrose. He graduated from Amarillo High School in 1932 and attended Amarillo College. He was a sergeant in the 400th Armored Field Artillery Battalion in 1942. Battles he was in included Normandy, Northern France, Ardennes, Rhineland and Central Europe, where his unit was one of the first to enter liberated Berlin in 1945. Decorations and citations he received were the American Theater Campaign Ribbon, EAME Campaign Ribbon with five Bronze Stars, Good Conduct Medal, one Service Stripe, three Overseas Service Bars and a Victory Medal. He was honorably discharged in 1945. He was a member of Amarillo Lodge 731, a member and past elder of Westminster Presbyterian Church and Streamline Royal Rovers Trailer Club. He began working for Phillips Petroleum in Amarillo in 1941, where he was a bookkeeper/clerk. He retired in 1976 in Bartlesville, Okla., and returned to Amarillo in 1992. He married Elizabeth Hales in 1945 at Amarillo. Survivors include his wife; and a brother, W. Durward Gordon of California. The family requests memorials be to Westminster Presbyterian Church, 2526 Wimberly, Amarillo, TX 79109-2138 or the Leukemia Society of America Inc., 2651 N. Harwood, Suite 240, Dallas, TX 75201. Amarillo Daily News 23 Jan 1999 -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Return to Washington County Archives: http://www.usgwarchives.net/ok/washington/washington.html