Elizabeth Carroll Gordon, 91, of Greenwich died Saturday, Feb. 15. Born in Charleston, WV on July 19, 1928, she was the wife of the late Joseph Wallace Gordon and the daughter of the late William A. and Mildred Van Horn Carroll. Betty attended Georgetown Visitation Preparatory School and Marjorie Webster Junior College in Washington, DC. Upon graduation, she returned to Charleston, West Virginia to work at the Columbia Gas Company. She met her future husband, Joe, and married in 1956 at Andrews Air Force Base.
While raising her three children, Betty was active in the Junior League of Greenwich, Christ Church Altar Guild, and the North Mianus PTA. She was also a steadfast volunteer for the Burning Tree swim and tennis teams. After raising her three children, she volunteered weekly answering phones in the Christ Church office. Betty loved travelling with her husband, Joe, to visit family and friends and to enjoy many Princeton University sponsored trips.
Betty is survived by two sons, Joseph Wallace Gordon, Jr. and wife Liz, of Boulder, CO and William Carroll Gordon and wife Christine of Old Greenwch, CT; a daughter Susan Gordon Cinkala and husband Dean of Potomac, MD; a sister Mary Ellen Moore and husband Harry of Sarasota, FL and six grandchildren.
Services will be held Saturday, March 7 at 2 p.m. in Christ Church, 254 East Putnam Ave., Greenwich. Reception to follow. Memorial contributions may be made by check payable to Christ Church Greenwich; please put GORDON-BELLS on the memo line.
