A celebration of the life if H, “Rusty” Gordon will be Saturday, December 5, at 1156 Park Lane in Haverhill (west of Belvedere Road exit of I-95), Florida. The gathering begins at 1 pm, the service at 2 pm.  

Gordon, a feminist, lesbian advocate, archivist, concert producer, athlete, coach, teacher, recreation therapist, Democratic precinct woman, died October 27 of progressive, supranucleic palsy at age 67. 

Rusty founded The Whimsy Political Clearinghouse in 1967 that collected some 10,000 books and articles, some rare, on 12 topics and later maintained Loops, or e-mail lists, to send articles on those topics to some 200,000 readers and activists. 

Rusty was born in New York City on May 8, 1942, the daughter of the late Irving and Ann Goldberg. She is survived by lifetime partner Davilyn Whims of Haverhill.