Editing Beate Sirota Gordon (section)

==Death==
Gordon died of [[pancreatic cancer]] at her home in [[Manhattan]], [[New York City]] on December 30, 2012, at the age of 89. Her last public statement was to urge that the peace and women's rights clauses of the Japanese Constitution be preserved.<ref name=Mainichi>{{cite news|title=Beate Gordon, a drafter of Japan's Constitution, dies at 89 |url=http://mainichi.jp/english/english/newsselect/news/20130101p2g00m0in045000c.html |archive-url=https://archive.today/20130218182511/http://mainichi.jp/english/english/newsselect/news/20130101p2g00m0in045000c.html |url-status=dead |archive-date=2013-02-18 |accessdate=1 January 2013 |newspaper=The Mainichi |date=January 1, 2013 |location=Mainichi Japan }}</ref> Her husband, Joseph Gordon, had died four months earlier, on August 29, 2012, at the age of 93.<ref name="JG Obit">[http://www.legacy.com/obituaries/nytimes/obituary.aspx?pid=159548300#fbLoggedOut "Obituary: Joseph Gordon"] ''[[The New York Times]]'' (August 31, 2012)</ref>