PANSY ROSE GORDON's Obituary
Pansy Rose Gordon, 101, passed Friday, June 2, 2023, in Decatur Georgia. Pansy Rose was born April 27, 1922, in Pliney, West Virginia to Lloyd and Iona Rose. Services will be held Thursday, June 8, 2023, at Perry United Methodist Church. Visitation begins at 10:00 a.m. and funeral service will be held at 11:00 a.m.
She was the fourth of five children. She had three older sisters, Calla, Violet, and Fern. Her younger brother, Lloyd, was born two years later. Her parents were both teachers and her father also farmed. As a young child, her family moved to Jamestown Indiana to a farm her father purchased. When the farm failed in the Depression, the family moved to Yellow Springs Ohio where Pansy’s father became a curator at Bryan State Park, a job he held until he died in 1937, at which time Pansy’s mother was left to raise her five children as a single mother during the Depression. Despite their circumstances, all the Rose children remembered their childhood with humor and fondness.
Pansy graduated from Cedarville High School in 1940 and went to secretarial school in Columbus Ohio. In 1946 she was introduced to the love of her life, Martin Gordon, who she always called Gordon. Gordon, the New York son of Russian immigrants, was a World War 2 veteran stationed at Wright Patterson Air Force Base in Dayton, Ohio. They married in 1947.
In 1957 they were transferred and moved from Yellow Springs to Redlands, California where they lived until 1967 when they were transferred to Robins Air Force Base in Warner Robins, Georgia. They settled in Perry Georgia where Pansy lived until after Gordon died in 2001. All of Pansy’s siblings also predeceased her.
Shortly after moving to Perry, Pansy joined the Perry United Methodist Church where she was an active member, especially enjoying being part of the Joy Choir. She also was an avid bridge player, an enthusiastic golfer and volunteered at the Perry Hospital as a Pink Lady. But always the center of her life was her family. Pansy and Gordon were married 54 years. They raised four children. She was a Cub Scout den mother for her boys and active in PTA.
All her children survive her, Rick “Curly” Gordon and Jan Mills of Yuma Arizona, Andrew Gordon and Patti Evans of Phoenix, Arizona, Kevin and Susan Gordon of Decatur Georgia and Mindee Adamson, also of Decatur. She also has eleven grandchildren, Lisa Brown, Christi Gordon, Faye Taylor Sinyard, Leigh Cochran, Jesse Gordon, Max Gordon, Elizabeth Gordon, Nathan Adamson, Andrew Adamson, Jennifer Lipham, Alex Sucar and several great grandchildren and one great-great grandchild. She was also Aunt Pansy to many nieces and nephews.
Last year virtually her entire extended family and friends gathered from all over the country to celebrate her 100th birthday.
In lieu of flowers make donations to Agape Hospice Care, 1395 S. Marietta Pkwy SE, Marietta Georgia and the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society, Georgia – South Carolina region, P.O. Box 22443 Ny, NY 10087
The funeral will be livestreamed at www.perryumc.org – click Worship Online.
Condolences for the family may be left in the online guestbook at www.watsonhunt.com. Watson-Hunt Funeral Home has been entrusted with the arrangements.
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