ROSE ELIZABETH GORDON KING, 73
HUBBARD -- A memorial service will be at 11 a.m. Monday in Fairview Reformed Presbyterian Church, Industry, Pa., for Rose Elizabeth Gordon King, 73, of Greensburg, Ind., formerly of Hubbard, who died April 15 in Spectrum Health Center, Grand Rapids, Mich.
Mrs. King was born Dec. 30, 1927, in Cornwall, Conn., a daughter of Cyril and Maybelle Hendricks Stevens.
She graduated from high school in New York and attended Bible college in Chicago and Cincinnati for two years.
Her first husband, Richard Gordon, whom she married Aug. 20, 1949, died in 1996. The couple spent two years in Kabul, Afghanistan, from 1950 to 1952, and then 10 years as missionaries in Nigeria. They returned to Nigeria in 1984 as missionary teachers and hostel parents to missionary high school students until 1986.
She also had been a deaconess and the coordinator of missions for the Baptist Churches of Ohio.
She was a member of the First Baptist Church of Greensburg, taught Sunday school and spent several years visiting care centers in Indiana and Michigan. She was an oil painter, musician and writer.
She leaves her husband, Russell W., whom she married in 1999; a son, Richard Gordon Jr. of Columbus; three daughters, Bonnie Duncan and Kathie Roberts, both of Fennville, Mich., and Melody Logoyda of Engle, Ohio; a sister, Ruth Harris of Apopka, Fla.; a brother, Eugene A. Stevens of Wilmington, Del; and seven grandchildren.
A brother, Don C. Stevens, is deceased.
Contributions may be made to the Sudan Interior Mission, Charlotte, N.C. Arrangements are by Arsulowicz Brothers Mortuary, Grand Rapids.
4/29/01