Helen Louise DeYoung Gordon

Helen was an accomplished pianist, artist, and business woman. Her passion for piano started as a small child and continued throughout her life.

She founded the Greensheet in 1970 in Houston, Texas. Greensheet quickly expanded to Dallas, Fort Worth, and Austin and continues today after forty years. She started Gordon Furniture, a custom mill working company, and Gordon Freeze Dried Flowers, both she closed before retiring. Her favorite part of business was the start up of companies.

Helen joins her son, Lawrence Gebauer, who passed away in 1984 at the age of 36, and her brother Daniel Gordon who passed away on the 10th of February 2009. Surviving family is Robert DeYoung, her husband of forty-one years; two daughters, Kathleen Douglass and Rebecca Blakeley; adopted son, Justin Gordon; step-daughter, Sheryl Bergdahl; step-son, Brian DeYoung; eight grandchildren; six great grandchildren; three nieces and nephews; and four great nieces and nephews.

Friends are cordially invited to a visitation with the family from six until eight o’clock in the evening on Tuesday, the 6th of April, in the Parlor of Geo. H. Lewis & Sons, 1010 Bering Drive in Houston.

The funeral service is to be conducted at one o’clock in the afternoon on Wednesday, the 7th of April, in the Jasek Chapel of Geo. H. Lewis & Sons, 1010 Bering Drive in Houston, where the Rev. Richard Morledge will officiate.