Obituaries:  Jack Rogers Jordan, Sabine Parish       J-635
Source:  Sabine Index, Many, La., Oct 11, 1989
Submitted by: Carl Dilbeck
              carlrad@earthlink.net


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Jack Rogers Jordan

  Services for Jack Rogers Jordan, 79, were held at 3 p.m.,
Wednesday, October 4, at the St. John Catholic Church in Many.
Father Kenneth Williams will officiate. Burial will be in St.
John Cemetery, under the direction of Warren Meadows Funeral
Home.

  Mr. Jordan died Tuesday, October 3, at his residence in Many. He
was born to Wilfred Murray Jordan, and Mary Anne Blake Jordan, on
March 4, 1910. He graduated from Loyola University in New Orleans
in 1931, with a B.S. Degree. Mr. Jordan served in the United
States Air Force from February 16, 1942, to November 23, 1945,
with the rank of Technical Sergeant. He served in Guam for two
years, and was awarded the Bronze Star, Good Conduct Medal,
Meritorious Unit Award, Victory Ribbon, One Year Service Stripe,
One Year Overseas Service Bar, American Theater Campaign Medal,
and Asiatic Pacific Campaign Medal. He was a past member of the
Zwolle Lions Club. He was baptized March 23, 1910, and was a
member of St. John Catholic Church in Many.

  He was employed with the People State Bank, November 1, 1949. He
became manager, and opened the Zwolle Branch of People State
Bank, on November 13, 1953, where he worked until his death.

  He was preceded in death by one brother, John Murray Jordan, who
died February 4, 1966; one sister, Mary Nell Jordan, who died
December 5, 1952.

  He is survived by one first cousin, John J. Blake Jr. of Many,
and a host of friends.