A new friend Jacqueline Gordon met at the New Orleans Convention Center told her God was going to send her a husband. That was four days after Hurricane Katrina filled Gordon’s home to the roof with water and sent her packing, homeless and penniless.
“I was looking for nobody,” Gordon said at Camp Williams Sunday. “I had my mind on surviving.”
But maybe her friend, Yolanda Favorith, really was privy to God’s plan. In fact, Gordon had already met her future husband.
After traveling two days from her flooded home to the New Orleans Convention Center, Gordon met Ronald Herbert. A six-day courtship later - which took place mostly in an airport terminal, an airplane and Camp Williams - the couple are engaged and will be married Friday at the Camp Williams officers club.
“We don’t feel no worries,” Herbert said about prewedding jitters. “This is done by God. When it’s done by God you don’t have to worry about nothing.”
But for Gordon, a petite 50-year-old collection agency employee, and Herbert, a construction worker built like a linebacker, it wasn’t exactly love at first sight when they met Aug. 31. Herbert was at the shelter with his old friend Walter Favorith and Walter’s wife, Yolanda, when Gordon approached him.
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