Tuesday, July 05, 2005
Betty Forster Gordon - of - Conroe, Texas
Betty Forster Gordon, age 84, following a long illness, died Sunday, June 26, 2005
at The Woodlands, Regent Care Center. Betty was born in Hackensack, New Jersey on
May 5, 1921 and she grew up in central New Jersey where she graduated from Washington
High School. Later going on to educate herself she received and R.N. degree from
the Easton Hospital School of Nursing in Easton, Pennsylvania - in 1942. She enlisted
in the U.S. Army Air Corps and served at a base near Palm Springs, California in the
Army Nurse Corps. After the war, she married her hometown sweetheart, Robert Gordon (who had himself also served in the war as a B-17 bomber pilot with the 8th Air Force 490th Bomb Group based in England). Robert and Betty had recently (August 2004) celebrated their 59th wedding anniversary. She is survived by her husband, Robert Gordon and son and daughter-in-law, Scott and Cathy Gordon and grandson Collin Gordon... a daughter Suzanne Gordon and a granddaughter and great-granddaughter.
Services were held at the Cashner Funeral Home - click here
the folks at Cashner Funeral Home - invite you to leave a written tribute for the family on their website at: www.cashnerfunerals.com
In lieu of flowers, the family request memorial contributions be sent to the
American Lung Association - click here
American Lung Association - Houston & Southeast Region
P.O. Box 27396
Houston, Texas 77227-7396
More information about Betty Forster Gordon:
(please feel free to eMail me any additional information that you would like included here)
Mrs. Gordon sold real estate with Pine Country Realty.
Betty loved gardening and learning about antiques.
at The Woodlands, Regent Care Center. Betty was born in Hackensack, New Jersey on
May 5, 1921 and she grew up in central New Jersey where she graduated from Washington
High School. Later going on to educate herself she received and R.N. degree from
the Easton Hospital School of Nursing in Easton, Pennsylvania - in 1942. She enlisted
in the U.S. Army Air Corps and served at a base near Palm Springs, California in the
Army Nurse Corps. After the war, she married her hometown sweetheart, Robert Gordon (who had himself also served in the war as a B-17 bomber pilot with the 8th Air Force 490th Bomb Group based in England). Robert and Betty had recently (August 2004) celebrated their 59th wedding anniversary. She is survived by her husband, Robert Gordon and son and daughter-in-law, Scott and Cathy Gordon and grandson Collin Gordon... a daughter Suzanne Gordon and a granddaughter and great-granddaughter.
Services were held at the Cashner Funeral Home - click here
the folks at Cashner Funeral Home - invite you to leave a written tribute for the family on their website at: www.cashnerfunerals.com
In lieu of flowers, the family request memorial contributions be sent to the
American Lung Association - click here
American Lung Association - Houston & Southeast Region
P.O. Box 27396
Houston, Texas 77227-7396
More information about Betty Forster Gordon:
(please feel free to eMail me any additional information that you would like included here)
Mrs. Gordon sold real estate with Pine Country Realty.
Betty loved gardening and learning about antiques.
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