Friday, April 25, 2008

Bill Broadhead

Things you may not have known about Gordon
1. Gordon was a good musician: He played the clarinet, the banjo, the harmonica and the guitar.
2. Gordon was a pilot in the Royal Canadian Air Force in WWII. He never dropped a bomb on the enemy though.
3. Gordon was skilled in wood work and made much of the furniture in our early homes.
4. Gordon loved his dogs. We always had a dog when I was growing up.
5. Gordon didn’t gamble (except in the stock market a little) or drink.
6. Gordon never got a traffic ticket that I knew of.
7. We used to love to wrestle with him when we were children.
8. Gordon was on the basket ball team at the University of British Colombia.
9. Gordon was good at golf, running, croquet and tennis.
10. Gordon was a marine biologist but curiously didn’t much care for the water and really didn’t like the beach "there is just too much sand"
11. Gordon loved Canada. Even though as a boy, he "had to walk miles through the snow to school"

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