Obituaries

Constance S. GordonTeacher

Constance S. Gordon, 73, a retired kindergarten teacher at Garrett Park Elementary School, died Jan. 18 of multiple myeloma at Suburban Hospital in Bethesda. She had lived in Potomac for 37 years.

She was born Constance Susan Gelb in Brooklyn and graduated from Brooklyn College in 1956. After teaching in New York for 10 years, she became an elementary school teacher in Montgomery County -- at Fallsmead, Travilah and Maryvale before moving to Garrett Park, where she taught for 25 years. She retired in 1998.

She was a member of Temple Beth Ami in Rockville, Women in the Arts and the Organization for Rehabilitation through Training.

Survivors include her husband of 53 years, Lawrence J. Gordon of Potomac; three children, Daniel L. Gordon of Potomac, Richard J. Gordon of Memphis and Lili A. Gordon of Eagleville, Pa.; two sisters, Gilda Loeb of Whippany, N.J., and Barbara Katz of Bethesda; and six grandchildren.

-- Joe Holley

Trudye Hathcote FowlerHomemaker, Volunteer

Trudye Hathcote Fowler, 97, a homemaker and volunteer, died of coronary artery disease Jan. 22 at the Goodwin House in Alexandria.

Mrs. Fowler, an Alexandria resident since 1939, restored several houses and was active with the Historic Alexandria Foundation. She was a member of the Woman's National Democratic Club of Washington and in the 1960s was a member of the National Highway Beautification Task Force, chaired by Lady Bird Johnson.

She was born in Amory, Miss., and survived the Spanish flu epidemic that broke out during her childhood. She worked for the Tennessee Valley Authority in the 1930s, then married and moved to San Francisco for a year until she settled in Alexandria.

She and her husband had an apartment in New York City and a summer house on Cape Cod.