Mr. Gordon was born October 28, 1951, in New Orleans, LA. He graduated from Sturgis High School, and from Mississippi State University with a degree in Forestry. He was a self-employed forester.
He was preceded in death by his mother, Mae Belle Shumaker Rhodes; his father, Harold Curtis Gordon, Sr., and a brother, Henry Rhodes.
He is survived by his wife, Debbie Barnett Gordon of Louisville; two sons, Brian Gordon of Nashville, TN, and Neil Gordon of Ackerman; a step-son, Jordan Hammons of Dallas, TX; a step-daughter, Heather Shockley of Denver, CO; and a sister, Ann James of Grenada, MS.
In lieu, of flowers, the family request that memorials may be made to the American Leukemia Society, or the Mississippi Forestry Association Foundation.