Lynn Gray Gordon | |
Birth Date: | 8 April 1912 |
Birth Place: | Waxahachie, Texas, US |
Death Place: | Melbourne, Florida, US |
Education: | Texas Technological College, Faith Theological Seminary |
Lynn Gray Gordon, D.D., (April 8, 1912 – June 14, 2003) was an American pastor, Christian educator, army chaplain, and college president.
Lynn Gray Gordon was born on April 8, 1912, in Waxahachie, Ellis, Texas, US.
He received his A.B. (Chem) from Texas Technological College in 1933, and M. Div. from Faith Theological Seminary in May 1949.
He served in the Texas State Department of Health as a sanitary engineer for 5 years, during which time the state sent him to study at Vandebilt University for one semester (1937), and at the Harvard University Graduate School of Public Health for one year (1938).
Following the outbreak of World War II, he served in the Army as a major, sanitary engineer, ending up in the Philippines in 1946. He also served as a US Army chaplain (lieutenant colonel) in Korea.
Gordon served in the following capacity:[1]
He died on June 14, 2003, in Melbourne, Brevard, Florida, United States. He is survived by his wife Maurine Ethlyn Ford, in Borger, Texas, whom he married on May 26, 1935.