In Memoriam Gordon Geddes

Dick Lukin sent us this notice of the death of a very early IRM member:

Just  three days short of his 87th birthday, Gordon H. Geddes passed away on January 21st, 2021.  An early member of IERM, he joined us at North Chicago while on active duty with the U. S. Army as the executive officer of a Nike missile installation located in the Forest Preserve in Northfield.  The headquarters for the site was located in a narrow strip of land along the main line of the North Shore's Skokie route in Northfield.

Gordon joined the museum in 1956 and worked on various projects when it was located in North Chicago.  He had continued as a member since then and was a contributor to IRM.  He was later an executive with the Greenley Tool Company located in Rockford, and lived in Poplar Grove.  He is survived by his wife Nada, sons Leslie and  Duncan, two grandchildren, and a brother.  He wrote a history of the Rockford and Interurban system, and was a member of CERA and other railfan organizations.

Dick adds that he was a groomsman at Gordon's wedding in 1959, and Gordon attended Dick's wedding in 1960.  They had been close friends all these years.  

 A service to celebrate Gordon Geddes' life will be held in June in Rockford.   He will certainly be  missed.