Helen Gorden

Helen Gorden, 78, loving wife, mother, grandmother and friend, passed away peacefully surrounded by family on Feb. 2, 2023, at McKay Healthcare and Rehabilitation Center in Soap Lake, Washington. Helen was born to August and Lucille Botley on April 2, 1944, in Pineville, Louisiana. Helen was the third child out of nine children. Helen was very close to her siblings and loved them very much despite the distance. After high school, Helen moved across the country to Othello, Washington, where she took a job taking care of an elderly couple. There she met and married the love of her life, Douglas Gorden, on March 10, 1963. They enjoyed a happy, loving marriage of 58 years, until Douglas passed less than a year ago.