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By Lydia Freudenberg
#DRESSED Pickerington woman creates handmade princess dresses for girls with cancer
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who were then 5, 8 and 11. … My second daughter said, ‘But Daddy, who’s going to walk me down the aisle when I get married?’” The Gordon family soaked up every moment together, and David outlived the doctor’s three-month prediction, but died seven months later. Gordon describes him as a man of integrity, fun-loving and firm in his Christian faith. www.pickeringtonmagazine.com
Photo by Lydia Freudenberg
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n May 2006, Jackie Gordon and her husband, David, sat down with their three young daughters to tell them the toughest news they’d ever heard. David was diagnosed with stage four pancreatic cancer, and had three months to live. “It was like hitting a brick wall,” says Gordon. “The hardest thing was to tell our girls,
Jackie Gordon (left) poses with dress recipient Lauren Blake and her mother, Alicia.