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Post by ForeverWaltons on Feb 17, 2019 10:00:28 GMT -5
Gordon - You were last on here February 6th & your last post was on February 5th. Where are you? Hope everything is well. I miss you! 
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Post by JeriJet on Mar 25, 2019 21:02:01 GMT -5
Gordon - You were last on here February 6th & your last post was on February 5th. Where are you? Hope everything is well. I miss you! And now it's March 25th -- starting to get a bit worried..... |
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Post by ForeverWaltons on Mar 26, 2019 10:25:11 GMT -5
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Post by Brenda on Mar 26, 2019 10:36:48 GMT -5
Thanks for posting, Kimberly. He seemed to be a really nice person and so young, just 50. He is gone too soon and will be missed here on the forum. Here is his Facebook timeline which is now a memorial page. www.facebook.com/gordon.m.lowe? |
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Post by sdw on Mar 26, 2019 11:34:09 GMT -5
So Sorry to hear about Gordon death, I like to read what he posted.
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Post by JeriJet on Mar 26, 2019 12:06:44 GMT -5
Thanks, Brenda and Kimberly.
Gordon will forever be in my heart -- a real treasure here on the forum and, I'm sure, with whomever he spent his time.
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Post by patriciaanne on Mar 26, 2019 18:06:55 GMT -5
Wow...that is a shock. I'm so sorry to hear this sad news. Too young to die. 😔💔 I hope his brief time here was happy and I hope he is at peace. He's been reunited with his parents and I'm sure that gives him great joy. Godspeed, Gordon. 💖
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Post by goldfinch1 on Mar 26, 2019 19:32:20 GMT -5
Oh my goodness me no, so very sad I can't quite believe it! Poor Gordon and yes he was so young. I too always loved reading his posts. You are with your beloved parents now R.I.P Gordon with my love😢🌸
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Post by RebeccaLee on Mar 26, 2019 20:47:38 GMT -5
Oh my goodness me no, so very sad I can't quite believe it! Poor Gordon and yes he was so young. I too always loved reading his posts. You are with your beloved parents now R.I.P Gordon with my love😢🌸 Amen! |
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Post by ForeverWaltons on Mar 26, 2019 23:01:09 GMT -5
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Post by goldfinch1 on Mar 27, 2019 9:15:47 GMT -5
ForeverWaltons thank you so much for your posts on Gordon. From reading that beautiful and very moving setiahome forum thread, Gordon was certainly well thought of, respected and loved. I do hope he knew that. I genuinely feel grieve myself! I of course didn't even know Gordon, it's only by reading and appreciating his posts here on this forum that I felt an empathy for him. I wonder how your instincts alerted you that something may have been wrong, as I am aware that some members do take breaks from posting here from time to time. may have you known something was 'seriously' wrong somehow?😕🌸 |
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Post by patriciaanne on Mar 27, 2019 11:53:14 GMT -5
It's true...it never would have occurred to me that something so serious was wrong. Especially because it had only been 6 or 7 weeks. People get busy and often drift off for awhile. I, too, feel very bad, even though I didn't know him outside this Forum. There is also something very sad about someone dying without any family. Although Gordon never gave any indication that he was particularly lonely. I just feel bad thinking that there wasn't even anyone around to write a decent obituary. I must make a note to write my own if I should ever find myself having outlived everyone else. At least I have a niece and nephew who should outlive me and hopefully my sister, too, as I am older than she. (I've already informed her that she is NOT to go ahead of me but she often doesn't listen to me.)
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Post by goldfinch1 on Mar 27, 2019 15:38:03 GMT -5
It's true...it never would have occurred to me that something so serious was wrong. Especially because it had only been 6 or 7 weeks. People get busy and often drift off for awhile. I, too, feel very bad, even though I didn't know him outside this Forum. There is also something very sad about someone dying without any family. Although Gordon never gave any indication that he was particularly lonely. I just feel bad thinking that there wasn't even anyone around to write a decent obituary. I must make a note to write my own if I should ever find myself having outlived everyone else. At least I have a niece and nephew who should outlive me and hopefully my sister, too, as I am older than she. (I've already informed her that she is NOT to go ahead of me but she often doesn't listen to me.) Yes Patriciaane, It never really occurred to me at first either: As for Gordon being lonely I recall a quote in his post on 25th Dec 2018 : "I miss my Mother intensely, and honestly I've never gotten over my Father's death 37 years ago. But I'm not lonely just truly alone now'. I was deeply moved by his sentiments there! As for his Obituary Gordon had posted this on 5th Aug 2016 on the setiathome.berkley.edu forum: "I'd rather write my own eulogy and obituary. Who knows what my nieces and nephews are planning to say upon my demise!!" "Oh trust me, I already have that base covered, too. I'm a planner." I do hope Gordon had the chosen service he wished for and that someone laid some Tiger Lilies on his final resting place 😢🌸 |
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Post by Forum Administrator on Mar 27, 2019 15:39:49 GMT -5
ForeverWaltons thank you so much for your posts on Gordon. From reading that beautiful and very moving setiahome forum thread, Gordon was certainly well thought of, respected and loved. I do hope he knew that. I genuinely feel grieve myself! I of course didn't even know Gordon, it's only by reading and appreciating his posts here on this forum that I felt an empathy for him. I wonder how your instincts alerted you that something may have been wrong, as I am aware that some members do take breaks from posting here from time to time. may have you known something was 'seriously' wrong somehow?😕🌸 Hi goldfinch1 , I started this missing persons board several years ago when I realized that many of us were forming close friendships even though we had never met in person and perhaps had no other contact with one another outside of this forum. Here is a post about the purpose of the board. waltonswebpage.proboards.com/thread/3526/purpose-board#.XJvZ1BopChAGordon had been posting on the forum almost daily for several months. When he suddenly disappeared, Kimberly ( ForeverWaltons ), being the caring person that she is, noticed and posted this message hoping that he was just lurking and would see it, check in with us, and let us know he was okay. Then Jerijet replied to Kimberly’s post earlier this week, and I became concerned. I used the email address and birthdate he used when he signed up for the forum and did a google search. That led me to his Facebook page. When I saw it was a memorial page, my heart sank. I read comments from some of his friends and realized it was true. I continued to search on google, now that I had his full name, and found that short obituary and the thread on the other forum where so many people posted warm thoughts and memories of him. It made me so sad when I read through the comments and realized that he had so many people who cared about him, yet he was all alone with no one to even write a proper obituary for him. I texted Kimberly and sent her the links I had found. I asked her to post it on the forum since she had made the original post. I also sent Jerijet a message letting her know since she had replied to Kimberly’s post. I hope Gordon knew how many lives he touched just by his presence on the Internet. Apparently he lost his father many years ago, and he and his mother were very close. When she died in 2017, I think it affected him deeply, because she was the only family he had. I take comfort in the thought that he and his parents are again united. |
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Post by Forum Administrator on Mar 27, 2019 15:50:41 GMT -5
I hope Kimberly doesn’t mind, but I have edited the subject line of this thread to show that it is now a memorial thread rather than a missing person thread.
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I have missed him here on the forum and will continue to do so. RIP my friend.
(Words written by Gordon).
