Norfolk City Virginia USGenWeb Archives Obituaries.....Jordan, Eliza December 27, 1961
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Norfolk Journal and Guide,Saturday,Jan 6,1962
A funeral service will be held at noon Saturday at St. John AME Church for Miss
Eliza Jordan, retired Norfolk public school teacher. Miss Jordan died Wednesday
morning at the home of her niece, Mrs. Maxine F. Burrell, at 708 Chapel St.

The Rev. W. L. Hildebrand will officiate at the rites. Burial will be in Calvary
Cemetery under direction of B. F. King Funeral Home.

A home economics teacher, Miss Jordan began her classroom career in Portsmouth
before taking a post at S. C. Armstrong School on Cumberland street.

Miss Jordan spent 45 years in the Norfolk system before her retirement 37 years
ago. A Norfolk native, she was a graduate of Norfolk Mission College and
Columbia University, and held membership in St. John Church and formerly taught
Sunday school there.

The deceased is survived by eight nieces, in addition to Mrs. Burrell, and three
nephews. They are:

Mrs. Constance Jones, Mrs. Aliene Davenport, Mrs. Ida Merritt, Mrs. Harriet J.
Selden and Mrs. Etta Bailey of Norfolk, Misses Alice and Frances Pierce of
Boston, Mrs. Ethel Ogburn of Newark, NJ; Hugh M. Jordan of Petersburg; Emerson
J. Pierce of Boston, and Dr. C. Thurston Ferebee of White Plains, NY.

Miss Jordan was the daughter of the late John H. Jordan and Mrs. Hannah Waller
Jordan.

Additional Comments:
Calvary Cemetery

JORDAN, ELIZA I8607 Section OLD CALVARY, Block 33, Lot A, Space 4, 12/30/1961

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