Kenneth L. Gordon

SHREVEPORT, LA - A celebration of the life of Kenneth Lee Gordon, 71, will be held on Monday, December 20, 2010, at 10:00 a.m. in the Broadmoor Baptist Church Worship Center in Shreveport, LA. Ken's friend, Dr. Larry Williams, Minister of Senior Adults, will officiate. Interment will follow in Arlington Cemetery in Homer, LA at 2:00 p.m. Visitation will be at Rose-Neath Marshall Street Funeral Home from 5-7 p.m. Sunday.

Ken was a native of Homer, LA. He graduated from Louisiana Tech University where he was a member of Delta Sigma Pi, honorary business fraternity. Ken moved to Shreveport in 1962 and began working for McGregor-Koonce, Inc., in the oil and gas industry, his career for 48 years. As active members of Broadmoor Baptist Church for over forty years, Ken and his family enjoyed the fellowship and formed lifelong friendships.

A lover of nature and the outdoors, Ken enjoyed hunting, boating at Jeem's Bayou and Lake Claiborne with family and friends, playing tennis at Pierremont Oaks with his tennis group, and in his younger years, flying small airplanes. Ken also served on the Board of the Boy Scouts of America. The last eighteen years, he most enjoyed being Papa and attending his grandchildren's ballgames, dance recitals and anything else in which they were involved.

Honoring Ken as pallbearers will be longtime friends, Steve Murphy, Dr. F. Dean Griffen, Lad Cazedessus, Shelby Houston, George Hamilton, and James McCallister. Honorary pallbearers will be James McGregor and Dr. Norman Winterton.

The family would like to extend a heartfelt thanks to Drs. G.E. Ghali, Sanford Katz, and Maxwell McDonald for their treatment and care, and special thanks to Dr. Dan Moller and Sherry Campbell, NP, for their guidance and support. To Ms. Lucy Grove and our "unlikely angel" Rhonda Hindsman, RN's of WK Hospice, we thank you.

Ken was preceded in death by his mother, Gnettie Acklin Gordon. Left to cherish his memory is his devoted and loving wife of 46 years, Gayle Strahan Gordon; his father, Lonnie Gordon of Homer; brother, Johnny Gordon of Baton Rouge; two sons, Greg Gordon and wife, Denise of Natchitoches, Brad Gordon of Shreveport; and five grandchildren, Lane and Mary Claire of Natchitoches, and Cody, Casey and Colton of Shreveport.

Memorials may be made to Broadmoor Baptist Church of Shreveport, 4110 Youree Drive, Shreveport, LA 71105; or LSUHSC Head and Neck Research, c/o Feist-Weiller Cancer Center, Development Office, P.O. Box 33932, Shreveport, LA 71130; or the donor's choice.