Spotlight on Eva Gordon Leaving a Legacy and Changing Lives in Washington State At the end of 2019, the SPSCC Foundation received the largest cash donation in the College’s history: a gift of approximately $550,000 from the Eva Gordon Estate. SPSCC is one of 17 Washington community and technical colleges to receive a donation totaling nearly $10 million. We’re immensely grateful for this gift from the Gordon Estate.
secretary and as a trading assistant for a Seattle investment firm. Her husband Ed was a Navy pilot turned stockbroker. While the couple had wealth together, they invested their money separately. Through frugal living and investing early in Northwest-based companies like Microsoft, Nordstrom, and Starbucks, Eva grew her money.
A history of lending a hand “Eva had a tremendous heart and liked to A woman ahead of her time throw a rope to help people climb,” said John Eva Gordon, who passed away in June of Jacobs, her godson and a representative for 2018 at the age of 105, was a woman ahead her estate. of her time. She traveled the world with her Her compassion toward those going through brother before she married and did so at a financial struggles was something which time when most women didn’t get to have that reoccurred throughout her life. She was experience. Eva married her husband Ed later known to lend people money and didn’t ask in life—in 1964—when she was in her 50s. for interest when they paid her back. She also Another exceptional thing she did was make did volunteer work for children’s and wise investments. She worked as a legal educational programs.
“Eva had a tremendous heart and liked to throw a rope to help people climb.” – John Jacobs (Eva’s godson)
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Eva and Ed Gordon left nearly $10 million to 17 community and technical colleges in Washington state.
South Puget Sound Community College Foundation
