Dorothy Gordon Zucker, fund-raiser

Dorothy Gordon Zucker, 83, a former Skokie resident who raisedmoney to combat cancer, died Thursday in Highland Park Hospital.

Mrs. Zucker, of Lake Worth, Fla., was a homemaker involved incharitable causes. In the 1940s, she founded the Chicago IvreyothSociety to aid cancer research.

As president, she and her members asked for donations on streetcorners, held dances and auctions, and conducted other fund-raisingactivities. Over the years, the society raised "millions ofdollars," her family said. In 1995, the society disbanded.Mrs. Zucker grew up in Wicker Park, near Division and Damen.Her father, Jacob Pollack, founded Pollack Electric in 1895.Along with her first husband, Philip Gordon, she was a foundingmember of Congregation B'nai Emunah in Skokie. She later was marriedto the late Sam Zucker.Surviving are three sons, Judge Robert, Barry and GilbertGordon, and a grandson.Services will be at 10 a.m. today at Weinstein Family ServicesChapel, 111 Skokie Blvd., Wilmette. Burial will be in WaldheimCemetery, 1800 S. Harlem, Forest Park.