Emanuel "Corky" Gordon, M.D. passed away August 5 at the age of 69 of complications from treatment for a recent illness. A noted emergency room physician, Dr. Gordon was board certified in internal and emergency medicine. He worked as an emergency room physician at Cedars Sinai for many years and then formed a medical partnership that operated the emergency rooms at Midway Hospital, Valley Presbyterian and Simi Valley Adventist. After his retirement, he taught a course on doctoring to third year medical students at UCLA Medical School. A lifelong Angelino, he graduated from Stanford in 1966 and USC School of Medicine in 1971. He is survived by his wife of 28 years, Judi Gordon, his two children, Emily and Ben as well as his sisters Erica Gordon and Jessica (Eric) Schreiber and many loving cousins, nieces and nephews.
Services will be held Friday, August 8 at 11 am at Groman Eden Mortuary in the Eternal Light Chapel. Burial will follow in Eden Memorial Park in Mission Hills.
Those who wish may make a donation in Corky's memory to Western Folklife Center, Doctors without Borders or to the charity of your choice or may send flowers to Groman Eden Mortuary.