OBITUARY: Catherine Joyce Jordan, 1920-1937, Mitchell Co., Iowa



                         Catherine Jordan

Catherine Joyce Jordan was born August 9, 1920 at McIntire, Iowa,
and passed away at her home in Cedar Falls, on January 29, 1937 at
the age of sixteen years, 5 months and 20 days.

Joyce attended rural schools nearest her home during her early years,
until she had completed the requirements of the grade school.  She
then enrolled in the McIntire high school, where she finished her
first year and her first semester as a sophomore.

The family moved to Cedar Falls during the first part of December,
1936 but she remained at McIntire until the end of the semester.
Then she joined her parents and had attended the high school at
Cedar Falls for one week, when her life was cut short, as she
returned from school on Friday, January 29, 1937 being accidentally
killed by an auto on Highway 20 in front of her home.

Funeral services were conducted Monday morning, Feburary 1, 1937
at St. Mary's Catholic church by Rev. Burchard Conrad and laid
beside her sister, Mary Lucille at Riceville, Iowa.

She leaves to mourn her passing: her parents, Mr. and Mrs. John
M. Jordan; a sister, Florence; two brothers, Richard Joseph and
John Marcus, all of Cedar Falls, Iowa; two grandmothers, Mrs.
Ellen Jordan of McIntire, Iowa and Mrs. Joseph Campbell of
Phillip, South Dakota, and a host of relatives and friends.



      Copyright 2004, Merri Cross

      Note: This was found in a scrapbook.  I am not a relation.