| GORDON BROOKS, 1950-2025 | VG HOMEOWNER, 1990-2025 |
A Memorial Service will be held Saturday, March 28th, 2:00pm at the Clubhouse.
This past month longtime resident Gordon Brooks (Court 6) passed away. A number of his neighbors, whose lives he touched, offered these remembrances.
Gwen Deglise Moore: Gordon was a wonderful neighbor whose helpful spirit greatly contributed to making life at Village Green such a pleasant one. Neighbors are our first community, and we were blessed with Gordon.
Jordan Deglise Moore: He was the kind of neighbor you gave your spare house key to and collaborated with on Christmas lights. He loved to chat about the Dodgers and Bob Dylan; I loved to listen to his stories of being an outdoors person since boyhood and a lumberjack as a young man.
Kitty Felde: We were Gordon's next door neighbors for a full quarter century. He was a tree hugger in the best sense of the word (even though he spent his early life cutting them down). He was quite a cat lover. I think we were next door neighbors not just to Gordon, but to at least five felines over the course of our years together.
Tad Daley: His latest cat was Scamper. Gordon rescued him as a kitten, from a dumpster behind our Superior Grocery. He would often perch on the ledge of his balcony and supervise all of us walking the Court Seven perimeter.
Kitty: He was always willing to fix something, or give advice, or lend a hand. There isn't a light fixture or screen door in our house that Gordon hasn't installed or repaired. I can't tell you how many of my girlfriends I tried to fix him up with. I would have married him myself if I could get rid of Tad.
Tad: I would have married him myself if I could get rid of Kitty.
Jordan: I’ll think of him every time we look at all the handiwork he did around our home and the trees he knew so much about and advocated for as the longtime chair of the Village Green Tree Committee.
Gwen: I marveled at his ingenuity and his ability to build and fix just about anything. I always enjoyed stopping by his garage to chat about whatever project he was working on, or share a quiet moment with him and his tortoise in front of our house.
Tad: Gordon had a pair of tortoises, Buddha and Kash. They’re about thirty or forty years old now, with many decades ahead. I think about all the Village Green 7-year-olds that have met these turtles. There are probably a few 35-year-old women or men out there who grew up in Village Green, and have childhood memories of this strapping guy and his tortoises out on the lawn.
Gwen: Sweet travels through the universe, Gordon—you deserve a happy eternal flight.
Gwen Deglise Moore: Gordon was a wonderful neighbor whose helpful spirit greatly contributed to making life at Village Green such a pleasant one. Neighbors are our first community, and we were blessed with Gordon.
Jordan Deglise Moore: He was the kind of neighbor you gave your spare house key to and collaborated with on Christmas lights. He loved to chat about the Dodgers and Bob Dylan; I loved to listen to his stories of being an outdoors person since boyhood and a lumberjack as a young man.
Kitty Felde: We were Gordon's next door neighbors for a full quarter century. He was a tree hugger in the best sense of the word (even though he spent his early life cutting them down). He was quite a cat lover. I think we were next door neighbors not just to Gordon, but to at least five felines over the course of our years together.
Tad Daley: His latest cat was Scamper. Gordon rescued him as a kitten, from a dumpster behind our Superior Grocery. He would often perch on the ledge of his balcony and supervise all of us walking the Court Seven perimeter.
Kitty: He was always willing to fix something, or give advice, or lend a hand. There isn't a light fixture or screen door in our house that Gordon hasn't installed or repaired. I can't tell you how many of my girlfriends I tried to fix him up with. I would have married him myself if I could get rid of Tad.
Tad: I would have married him myself if I could get rid of Kitty.
Jordan: I’ll think of him every time we look at all the handiwork he did around our home and the trees he knew so much about and advocated for as the longtime chair of the Village Green Tree Committee.
Gwen: I marveled at his ingenuity and his ability to build and fix just about anything. I always enjoyed stopping by his garage to chat about whatever project he was working on, or share a quiet moment with him and his tortoise in front of our house.
Tad: Gordon had a pair of tortoises, Buddha and Kash. They’re about thirty or forty years old now, with many decades ahead. I think about all the Village Green 7-year-olds that have met these turtles. There are probably a few 35-year-old women or men out there who grew up in Village Green, and have childhood memories of this strapping guy and his tortoises out on the lawn.
Gwen: Sweet travels through the universe, Gordon—you deserve a happy eternal flight.
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