John “Jack” E. Gordon, 89, passed away on Sunday, October 16, 2022, at the Mineral Springs Nursing Home in North Conway, N.H.

Born in Portland, Maine, on January 8, 1933, Jack was the first child of Edward and Dorothea (Roach) Gordon. He grew up in Cornish, Maine, and commuted to Portland to Deering High School. From there, he enrolled in the University of Maine in Orono where he was president of the Sigma Alpha Epsilon Fraternity.

After graduation, he was drafted into the U.S. Navy and spent two years “seeing the world.” With the military behind him, Jack taught for a year at the Piscataquis Community School in Guildford, Maine. The following year, 1957, he began his 38-year teaching career at Fryeburg Academy, retiring in 1995 as assistant headmaster.

Jack was predeceased by his parents, his wife, Grace Weston Gordon of Fryeburg, and his brother Peter.

He is survived by a sister, Joanne Schenck and her husband, John, formerly of Vancouver, Wash.; his brother-in-law, George and his wife, Laurie Weston of Fryeburg; his three children, Suzanne Poulin and her wife Kirsten Gowdy of Somersworth, N.H.; John Gordon Jr. of Fryeburg, and Christopher and his wife Cici of Winchester, Mass., and Fryeburg, six grandchildren: Alexandra, Nicholas, Kasey, Mackenzie, Tucker and Tate, and longtime companion, Jane Lasselle of Center Conway, N.H.

There will be a funeral service on Saturday, October 22, 2022, at 2 p.m., at the First Congregational Church in Fryeburg. Burial immediately following at the Pine Grove Cemetery in Fryeburg.

The family wishes to offer their sincere gratitude to the staff at Mineral Springs for their almost three years of kindness and care.

If desired, in lieu of flowers, Jack would greatly appreciate a donation in his name to a Fryeburg Academy Scholarship Fund so that deserving students may more easily continue

their education.
Arrangements are under the care of the Wood Funeral Home and Cremation Services, 9 Warren St., Fryeburg Maine. To make an online condolence please visit www.woodfuneralhome.org