{"id":16353,"date":"2015-03-08T20:40:09","date_gmt":"2015-03-09T00:40:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/traceyarial.com\/blog\/?p=16353"},"modified":"2015-03-08T20:40:09","modified_gmt":"2015-03-09T00:40:09","slug":"gil-gordon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/traceyarial.com\/blog\/en\/gil-gordon\/","title":{"rendered":"Legion Ceremony Honoured Gil Gordon"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Last Wednesday at 11 a.m. Royal Canadian Legion Branch 212 held\u00a0a Legion Military and Celebration of the life of Gilbert Walker (Gil) Gordon<\/a>. It\u00a0took\u00a0place at 7771 rue Bouvier in LaSalle.
\nThe ceremony honoured someone who was an active member of various Legion branches since 1947.<\/p>\n

He was a real Legionnaire,\u201d said Fred Jennings, current president of LaSalle Branch 212. \u201cThere\u2019s not many of them. Most people pay their dues and they come out once in a while. Not him. He was active all the time.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

\"GilGordonpastpresident\"<\/a>Jennings and Gordon knew each other well, having worked together on the 50th Anniversary committee of the Royal Canadian\u00a0Legion Branch 212 in LaSalle in 1999. They had also served together on the executive over many years since\u00a0Gordon was president of the branch. Gordon also volunteered for\u00a0branch 8590 in Lachine for a time.<\/p>\n

I can show you all the jobs he had from way back in the 1940s,\u201d said Jennings. \u201cEven up until a year ago, he was chairman of the branch. He\u2019s a past president, a life member, in charge of the poppy fund, in charge of membership. He was a life member. That\u2019s not easy to do. Out of our 1400 members since 1948, we\u2019ve had ten life members.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Jennings said that Gordon had been suffering after losing his second wife, Shirley Brewer<\/a>,\u00a0a few weeks ago. Brewer had also been active in Branch 212, as had been Gordon\u2019s first wife, Edna.<\/p>\n

Given the family\u2019s long association with the branch, they are asking that donations be made in Gil’s honour to THE POPPY FUND, c\/o the Royal Canadian Legion, Branch 212, 7771, rue Bouvier, LaSalle, Quebec H8N 2G6.<\/p>\n

Gordon’s obituary<\/a> currently appears in the Gazette.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Last Wednesday at 11 a.m. Royal Canadian Legion Branch 212 held\u00a0a Legion Military and Celebration of the life of Gilbert Walker (Gil) Gordon. It\u00a0took\u00a0place at 7771 rue Bouvier in LaSalle. The ceremony honoured someone who was an active member of various Legion branches since 1947. He was a real Legionnaire,\u201d said Fred Jennings, current president […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_wp_convertkit_post_meta":{"form":"-1","landing_page":"0","tag":"0","restrict_content":"0"},"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[641,643,642],"class_list":["post-16353","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-lasalleposts","tag-gilbert-walker-gil-gordon","tag-poppy-fund","tag-royal-canadian-legion-branch-212","post-wrapper","thrv_wrapper"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/traceyarial.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16353","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/traceyarial.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/traceyarial.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traceyarial.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traceyarial.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16353"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/traceyarial.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16353\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16355,"href":"https:\/\/traceyarial.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16353\/revisions\/16355"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/traceyarial.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16353"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traceyarial.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16353"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traceyarial.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16353"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}