Sister MARY LUKE JORDAN, S.S.N.D.
nee BERNICE CLAIRE JORDAN
on Thursday at 3:15 o'clock p.m.
Age 60 years
Born BERNICE CLAIRE JORDAN on 1 March 1913 in New Orleans, Louisiana.
A member of the religious order of the School Sisters of Notre Dame (S.S.N.D.).
Beloved daughter of Dolores Meza and Joseph Alphonse Jordan of New Orleans.
Sister of Mrs. Beulah Jordan Mason of San Antonio, Mrs. Dolores Barthe, Mrs. Hazel Jordan Laizer, and Walter J. Jordan, all of New Orleans; Mrs. Mildred Jordan Danner of Galveston, Sister Mary Lolita, O.S.F., and Sister Mary Thelma, O.S,F. of Wheaton, Illinois; the Reverend Lawrence E. Jordan, O.M. of Trujillo, Peru, South America; and Sister Mary Aidan, S.S.N.D.
Preceded in death by her mother Dolores Meza Jordan, her father Joseph Jordan, and her sister Bertha Ethel Jordan, who died at age 5 in 1909.
Sister Mary Luke Jordan (formerly Bernice Jordan) was an artist whose works were exhibited in Gulf Coast galleries.
Sr. Luke died in San Antonio, Texas, after a brief illness. She had been an art professor at St. Mary College in that city for five years. Previously she had been superintendent of art education for the Diocese of Jackson, Mississippi, and was formerly head of the art department of Notre Dame College in St. Louis, Missouri.
Visitation was held at Jacob Schoen and Son, Inc. Funeral Home, 3827 Canal Street, New Orleans, on Monday, 29 April 1974.
A Mass of the Resurrection was held at St. Francis Xavier Catholic Church, Metairie, Louisiana, at 10:30 a.m. on Monday, 29 April 1974.
Interment in St. Joseph Cemetery #1, New Orleans, Louisiana.
Obituaries with photograph published:
The Times-Picayune
New Orleans, Louisiana
Sunday Morning, 28 April 1974
Section One, Page 16, Columns 2 and 6
Note: In addition to herself, four of her siblings joined religious orders: Rev. Fr. Lawrence E. Jordan, S.M. worked in Peru, South America; Thelma was first known as Sister Mary DeSales, later Sister Mary Thelma, O.S.F.; Myrtle became Sister Mary Lolita, O.S.F., and Ethelberta became Sister Mary Aidan, S.S.N.D.
Sister MARY LUKE JORDAN, S.S.N.D.
nee BERNICE CLAIRE JORDAN
on Thursday at 3:15 o'clock p.m.
Age 60 years
Born BERNICE CLAIRE JORDAN on 1 March 1913 in New Orleans, Louisiana.
A member of the religious order of the School Sisters of Notre Dame (S.S.N.D.).
Beloved daughter of Dolores Meza and Joseph Alphonse Jordan of New Orleans.
Sister of Mrs. Beulah Jordan Mason of San Antonio, Mrs. Dolores Barthe, Mrs. Hazel Jordan Laizer, and Walter J. Jordan, all of New Orleans; Mrs. Mildred Jordan Danner of Galveston, Sister Mary Lolita, O.S.F., and Sister Mary Thelma, O.S,F. of Wheaton, Illinois; the Reverend Lawrence E. Jordan, O.M. of Trujillo, Peru, South America; and Sister Mary Aidan, S.S.N.D.
Preceded in death by her mother Dolores Meza Jordan, her father Joseph Jordan, and her sister Bertha Ethel Jordan, who died at age 5 in 1909.
Sister Mary Luke Jordan (formerly Bernice Jordan) was an artist whose works were exhibited in Gulf Coast galleries.
Sr. Luke died in San Antonio, Texas, after a brief illness. She had been an art professor at St. Mary College in that city for five years. Previously she had been superintendent of art education for the Diocese of Jackson, Mississippi, and was formerly head of the art department of Notre Dame College in St. Louis, Missouri.
Visitation was held at Jacob Schoen and Son, Inc. Funeral Home, 3827 Canal Street, New Orleans, on Monday, 29 April 1974.
A Mass of the Resurrection was held at St. Francis Xavier Catholic Church, Metairie, Louisiana, at 10:30 a.m. on Monday, 29 April 1974.
Interment in St. Joseph Cemetery #1, New Orleans, Louisiana.
Obituaries with photograph published:
The Times-Picayune
New Orleans, Louisiana
Sunday Morning, 28 April 1974
Section One, Page 16, Columns 2 and 6
Note: In addition to herself, four of her siblings joined religious orders: Rev. Fr. Lawrence E. Jordan, S.M. worked in Peru, South America; Thelma was first known as Sister Mary DeSales, later Sister Mary Thelma, O.S.F.; Myrtle became Sister Mary Lolita, O.S.F., and Ethelberta became Sister Mary Aidan, S.S.N.D.
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