Loved ones will bid farewell to sports­writer Ever­ard Alexan­der Pick­ford Gor­don on Fri­day at 10.30 am at the St Fin­bar's Ro­man Catholic Church, Morne Co­co Road, Diego Mar­tin.

Gor­don passed away at the Port-of-Spain Gen­er­al Hos­pi­tal on Fri­day at age 85. He had been ail­ing with de­men­tia for some time and was at the Arch­bish­op Fin­bar Ryan Geri­atric Home, Diego Mar­tin.

The for­mer sports­man was a longest-serv­ing em­ploy­ee at Trinidad Guardian News­pa­per, who cov­ered a num­ber of sports in­clud­ing crick­et, box­ing, squash and horse rac­ing and was the au­thor of the week­ly “The Night­watch­man” col­umn.

Gor­don was a Trinidad wel­ter­weight am­a­teur box­ing and St Mary’s Col­lege cham­pi­on, who al­so played crick­et lo­cal­ly, rep­re­sent­ing Har­vard Sports Club. He al­so played in Eng­land.

He had a pas­sion for re­port­ing and in­ter­view­ing any­one in the field of sports. It showed in his writ­ings, par­tic­u­lar­ly in week­ly col­umn, which was ex­cep­tion­al and re­mark­able.

Gor­don was first­born to Emel­da and Leo Pick­ford-Gor­don. He and his sib­lings Ken­rick (de­ceased), Lorne, Al­va (de­ceased), Grace, God­frey, Richard, Enid, Ronald, June and Don­na grew up on Duke Street in Port of Spain where their prog­e­ny spent a great deal of time to­geth­er with the fam­i­ly.

The revered sports jour­nal­ist, who leaves to mourn his three chil­dren Mark and twin Michael and Michele, grand­chil­dren, Dami­an, Kara, Ro­ry, Matthew, Nicole, Ian, Ton­jah, Shanesse, Kyle, Cheyenne, Maya. Do­minic is de­ceased.

Gor­don was al­so the great grand fa­ther to Do­minique, Aidan, Is­abel, Her­bert, Iman, Amir, Ian­namei and Ariel.