The Indianapolis Star, Indianapolis, Indiana, Monday, February 18, 1963, Pg. 8
Mrs. Vervie Gordon
Funeral services for Mrs. Vervie E. Gordon, 80 years old, 5919 Julian Avenue, will be held at 10:30 a.m. in Flanner and Buchanan Broad Ripple Mortuary. Burial will be in Oak Hill Cemetery at Lebanon.
Mrs. Gordon died Saturday in a nursing home here. She was born at Dover and lived in Indianapolis six years.
She was a member of the Christian Church at Advance.
Survivors include the son, Leslie O. Gordon of La Canada, Cal., and a brother, Walter L. Riner of Indianapolis.
Notes: She married Roy G. Gordon on August 25, 1901, in Boone County, Indiana. Newspaper reports in Lebanon, Boone County, describe that she had been abandoned by him in 1912, and had filed for divorce by early 1920 with a short notice in November 1920 that she had been granted a divorce. Their son had been persuaded in 1917 to join his father in Anaheim, California. In later years, Mrs. Gordon had lived with some of her brothers in Crawfordsville, Indiana, Kansas City, MO, and in Indianapolis. She had also worked in Fort Wayne in the period around 1920.
Transcribed and submitted by Vernon Threlkeld, #46986161
The Indianapolis Star, Indianapolis, Indiana, Monday, February 18, 1963, Pg. 8
Mrs. Vervie Gordon
Funeral services for Mrs. Vervie E. Gordon, 80 years old, 5919 Julian Avenue, will be held at 10:30 a.m. in Flanner and Buchanan Broad Ripple Mortuary. Burial will be in Oak Hill Cemetery at Lebanon.
Mrs. Gordon died Saturday in a nursing home here. She was born at Dover and lived in Indianapolis six years.
She was a member of the Christian Church at Advance.
Survivors include the son, Leslie O. Gordon of La Canada, Cal., and a brother, Walter L. Riner of Indianapolis.
Notes: She married Roy G. Gordon on August 25, 1901, in Boone County, Indiana. Newspaper reports in Lebanon, Boone County, describe that she had been abandoned by him in 1912, and had filed for divorce by early 1920 with a short notice in November 1920 that she had been granted a divorce. Their son had been persuaded in 1917 to join his father in Anaheim, California. In later years, Mrs. Gordon had lived with some of her brothers in Crawfordsville, Indiana, Kansas City, MO, and in Indianapolis. She had also worked in Fort Wayne in the period around 1920.
Transcribed and submitted by Vernon Threlkeld, #46986161
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