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Thomas Rowley Gordon

Glendora, California

1938 - 2020

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Gordon Thomas Rowley Aug. 4, 1938 Aug. 28, 2020 Gordon was born in Woburn, Massachusetts August 4, 1938 to Russell Joseph Rowley and Muriel Arline Luce Rowley. When he was twelve years old, his parents and brothers David and Russell moved to a dairy farm in Stetson, Maine. Gordon attended school...

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You were a good man Gordon.

Gordon did, even as a teenager, take up for younger kids. I was the youngest kid in the neighborhood and Gordon always made sure to have me on his side, whatever game we were playing. I think he did kind of have 9 lives between car crashes and rolling over the John deere B with a bucket of manure on it.

Gordon had a scar on his forehead from a car crash in 1955 in Etna, Maine. My sister was also injured along with others. We lived on the Coboro road in Stetson next to the Rowleys. I have many fond memories of those days. Gordon could mow hay with a John Deer B like nobody I ever saw.

Gordon was my mentor, friend and hero. Gordon was my best man at my wedding for myself and Sharon. I am heartbroken RIP my friend.

We were fortunate to meet Gordon and Norma while they visited in Maine years ago. A great couple.

I had the pleasure of meeting Gordon when I first started out in fire on the ANF. He would always tell me that I had great responsibility to take care of the Forest, the land and the people that loved it. When I started doing PIO work he said that responsibility was even greater and I'd better do him proud and make the Forest look good. I learned so much from Gordon, from Forest history, to how to tell her story with pride and never forget the past. His love for the FS and Smokey rubbed off...

I knew Thomas as Mr Gordon Rowley when I was in the Boy Scouts in the late 1970's. He was the very definition of a mentor. He led by example that included good values and compassion. Rest in peace my friend Gordon.

Gordon was a great mentor to me as a young firefighter on the Baldy district of the Angeles and a life long friend, I am still deeply saddened by the loss.