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Thomas Milton Gordon, Jr.

Thomas Milton Gordon Jr., a lifelong Vicksburg resident, died Thursday, December 1, 2011.  He was 70.

Tommy worked in the family-owned business, Gordon's Auto Shop, for 30 years. After that time, he was employed by the Vicksburg Warren School District as transportation supervisor for 13 years.  For the last eight years, he was entrusted with the care of school children as a bus driver for the district as well as the St. Aloysius High School activities bus.

Survivors include his wife of 49 years, Rosemary Loftin Gordon of Vicksburg; two sons, Matthew Brian Gordon of Richland and Christopher Lee Gordon of Ridgeland; four brothers, Bobby Gordon (Helen) of Hot Springs Village, Arkansas, David Gordon (Linda) of Vicksburg, Richard Gordon (Patti) of Vicksburg and Donnie Gordon (Linda) of Vicksburg; three sisters, Cecilia Harris of Pascagoula, Margie Bell Dardeau (Tony) of Vicksburg and Mary Frances Henry (Lee) of Byram; and three grandchildren, Patrick Alexander Gordon, Rhiannon Katherine Gordon and Elijah Kieran Gordon, all of Richland.

Mr. Gordon was preceded in death by his parents, Thomas M. Gordon, Sr., and Margaret Bell Gordon; his son, Patrick Bruce Gordon; and daughter-in-law, Brenda Adams Gordon.

Funeral services will be held at 11:00 a.m. Saturday, December 3, 2011, at Frank J. Fisher Funeral Home Chapel with Father P. J. Curley officiating. Burial will be at Cedar Hill Cemetery.  Visitation will be tonight from 5 until 7 at Frank J. Fisher Funeral Home.

Pallbearers are Charles Haley, John Heggins, John Piazza, Tony Dardeau III, Kevin Gordon, Jason Gordon, Josh Gordon and Mike Marshall.

Honorary pallbearers are Jimmy Andrews, Jr., Donald Reed, Jimmy Cathey, Jack Cooper, Lee Brown, Leo Koestler, Robert Bass and Joe Loviza.

Tommy Gordon Dies

VWSD Bus Driver Dies at Wheel - A longtime Vicksburg Warren School District bus driver who had just dropped off students died on his way home this morning after suffering an apparent heart attack, Warren Count Coroner Doug Huskey said.

Thomas "Tommy" Gordon, Jr., 70, was headed home from his morning bus route at 8:10 a.m. when his bus left the road in the 6400 of Halls Ferry Road and slid into a ditch, hitting a mailbox along the way, Huskey said.

The bus "eased off" the right side of the road at a slow speed and bumped a mailbox, authorities said.

Gordon was a 1958 graduate of St. Aloysius High School, who worked for years in his family automotive repair shop on Grove Street.

He worked as the school district's assistant transportation supervisor from 1990-2003, then began driving school buses, said Shannon Daniels, secretary for Superintendent Dr. Elizabeth Duran Swinford, who was in meetings this morning.

"He was a sweet man," Daniels said, "just a very sweet man."

No one was available at the schools' transportation office to say which school Gordon had just left.

Gordon is survived by two sons and his wife, Rosemary.

Fisher Funeral Home has charge of arrangements, Huskey said.

The Vicksburg Post by Danny Barrett, Jr., dbarrett@vicksburgpost.com

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Class of 1959 ~ History

1959 the unemployment problems eased to 5.5%. Television programs included "Rawhide", "Bonanza" and "The Twilight Zone", movies included "Some Like it Hot", "Ben Hur" and "North by Northwest". Hawaii was admitted to the the Union and became the 50th State. The Boeing 707 Jet Airliner comes into service and little girls love the Barbie Dolls made by Mattel. Fidel Castro comes to power in Cuba. Cost of Living 1959 How Much things cost in 1959 Yearly Inflation Rate USA 1.01% Average Cost of new house $12,400.00 Average Yearly Wages $5,010.00  Cost of a gallon of Gas 25 cents  Average Cost of a new car $2,200.00  Movie Ticket $1.00  Loaf of Bread 20 cents Kodak Movie camera $67.50  Ladies Stockings $1.00 What Events Happened in 1959 Fidel Castro comes to power in Cuba after Revolution with the first communist state in the west Mattel's Barbie Doll is Launched Alaska becomes the 49th State of the United States Hawaii becomes the 50th State of the United States Hudson and Nash become the AMC (American Motors Association Archbishop Makarios is elected president of the Independent Cyprus Republic The United Kingdom grants Cyprus its independence. Flood in Taiwan leaves 2,000 dead. St Lawrence Seaway a joint US / Canadian venture is completed linking the great lakes to the Atlantic Ocean US Unemployment reaches 1.4 million NASA introduces America's first astronauts to the world including John H. Glenn Jr, and Alan Shepard Jr. An International agreement is signed topreserve Antartica The first known human with HIV dies in Congo. The spiritual leader of Tibet, the Dalai Lama flees Tibet and obtains political asylum in India. Popular Culture 1959 The US Grammy Music Awards Started  The chartered plane transporting musicians Buddy Holly, Richie Valens, and the Big Bopper goes down in an Iowa snowstorm, killing all four occupants on board. The tragedy is later termed "The Day the Music Died," popularised in Don McLean's song, "American Pie."  The Film Ben-Hur premieres in New York City  Popular Films Ben-Hur  Some Like It Hot  Anatomy of a Murder  North by Northwest  Sleeping Beauty  Popular Singers Elvis Presley Doris Day  Frank Sinatra  Connie Francis  Jim Reeves  Cliff Richard Ella Fitzgerald  Popular TV Programs Bonanza premieres on NBC, the first weekly television series broadcast completely in color Technology 1959 Boeing 707 Jet Airliner comes into service cutting 8 hrs from transatlantic Flight  USSR Luna 2 crashes onto the Moon as the first man-made object and Luna 3 sends back first photos of the far side of Earth's Moon  IBM shipped the transistor-based IBM 1401 mainframe. Xerox launches the first commercial copier US Launches first Weather Station in Space  De Beers manufactures a synthetic Diamond  QANTAS introduces the Boeing 707 on its Sydney-San Francisco route, the first transpacific service flown by jet. Inventions Invented by Inventors and Country ( or attributed to First Use ) Microchip USA by Jack Kilby Etch A Sketch France by Arthur Grandjean Computer Modem USA Lunar Probe Russia Lunik I passed the Moon;Lunar Probe Russia Lunik II crashed on the Moon; Lunar Probe Russia Lunik III photographed the far side of the Moon Research for this year is provided by The People History. See History By Year and Decade for more prices and information. Find out more about the 50s at ThePeopleHistory.com.

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