Lee Elizabeth Gordon

Lee was a special girl. I remember the day she rode around with me on election day during a heated Newton Mayoral campaign.We were giving people rides to the polls. We were together in the car for like 9 hours. I learned a lot about her and what made her special. I am very sorry for your loss

I walked into the 4th St. cafe in NYC, (fresh from studying in London) Oct.10,1985 to get a cappucino before looking at a apt.share on St.Marks, and the girl in the cafe stood there looking me up and down in her tailored pants and cashmere sweater. She made me a cappucino and we got to chatting, and she couldn't see me surviving St. Marks, which led us to her apt. and the next morning i moved in...the beginning of a long and full friendship. I leave it to the photos of that early time to...

People often use the word unique, when the word they should use is rare. My mother, Lee Gordon, was Unique. There has never been before,nor will there ever be again a woman like her. She was a better person than this world deserved, & there is no adequate reward for the good she has done, and the people (virtually everyone she has ever met) she has,and will continue to inspire. Too say my life is richer for having known her, and that she will be missed by all her friends&family is a gross...