Gordon Lisle Sardeson, 86, of Rio (formerly Adams-Friendship) Wisconsin died peacefully in his sleep on April 26, 2008 at the Columbia Health Care Center in Wyocena, Wisconsin.

Funeral Services will be held on Wednesday, April 30^th, at 11 am at the Redeemer Lutheran Church in Rio. Rev. Stephanie Lorenz will officiate. Visiting hours will be held at the church before the service from 9 am � 11 am. There will also be visiting hours on Tuesday evening, April 29^th from 4 pm - 8 pm at Roseberry�s Funeral Home in Friendship, WI.

Interment, with military honors, will be Wednesday, April 30^th, at 2:00 p.m. the Belleville Cemetery, Belleville, Wisconsin.

Gordon was born minutes before his twin sister, Gloria Jean Sardeson Clark on March 26, 1922 in Blanchardville, WI to Lisle C. and Borghild Gundersen Sardeson.

He was a graduate of Bellville High School in 1941 and just after completing high school, he was drafted into the service where he served as staff sergeant in the 165^th Infantry until 1945.

Following his return from the service, Gordon went onto college at the University of Wisconsin, Platteville where he received a B.S. in 1949, and the University of Wisconsin, Madison where he earned an M.S. in 1952.

He taught and coached in the Pardeeville schools from 1949 to 1954 and served as an administrator of the Viola Public Schools from 1954 to 1958. For the next 27 years, from 1958 to 1985, Gordon served as the Superintendent of the Adams-Friendship School District. During that time, he was instrumental in consolidating Adams-Friendship schools and was an avid A-F sports fan.

Gordon himself was an outstanding athlete in high school and was the catcher for the Platteville Cardinals while a student at Platteville. While he especially loved baseball and was lifetime fan of his beloved Cubbies, he also followed the Wisconsin Badger football team as a season ticket holder for over 40 years.

Gordon became engaged to his high school sweetheart Marian June Schrepfer of Belleville, WI, when he returned from overseas and married her in the next year on August 24, 1946. After nearly 50 years of marriage and raising a family together, June sadly passed away in 1994.

In 1998, Gordon married again and has been happily married since to Marion Halverson. 

He is survived by his second wife, Marion Halverson Sardeson, and two daughters Susan Kay Sardeson Kubik of White Bear Lake, MN, and Nancy Joan Sardeson, of Amherst, MA and her partner Jane Simonds, also of Amherst.  Gordon also leaves behind four beloved grandchildren Gabriela Kubik (attending Smith College in Northampton, MA), Marisa Kubik of White Bear Lake, MN, Jonathan Lisle Sardeson Simonds and Samuel Blake Sardeson Simonds, both of Amherst, MA.  He is further survived by his twin sister Gloria Clark of Poynette, Wisconsin, step-children:  Ronald (Ardell) Halvorson of Waunakee, Wisconsin; John (Dianne) Halvorson of Sun Prairie, Wisconsin; and Joann (Glenn) Schmidt of Antigo, Wisconsin; numerous nieces, nephews, other relatives and friends.