Former Grants Pass resident Olivia Peterson Jordan, 92, of Buckley, Wash., died Friday, Dec. 19, 1997, at Buckley.
Memorial services will be at 11:30 a.m. Saturday at Bethany Presbyterian Church with the Rev. Steve Parker officiating. Private interment will be at Hillcrest Memorial Park. Hull & Hull Funeral Directors is in charge of arrangements.
Contributions may be made to the Christian Children's Fund, P.O. Box 26511, Richmond, VA 23261; or to the Josephine County Library, 200 N.W. C St., Grants Pass, OR 97526.
She was born March 13, 1905, in Graham, Mo. During her early life she lived in Missouri, Utah and Colorado. As a young woman, she worked on a Navajo reservation in Arizona, tutoring a trader's daughter.
She moved with her family to Southern California in 1925. She earned a bachelor's degree in education and mathematics at University of California at Los Angeles in 1930. On Jan. 16, 1932, at Ontario, Calif., she married James Gee Jordan, who died in 1972. She lived in Grants Pass for 45 years and taught at Fruitdale and Jerome Prairie Elementary Schools. In 1969 she retired after 22 years of teaching. She moved to Buckley in 1991.
She was a member of the Grants Pass Bethany Presbyterian Church, serving as an elder and the head of the Sunday School department.
Jordan enjoyed supporting numerous children's charities and educational endeavors, reading, collecting books, camping, traveling the United States and abroad, photography, and researching and writing her family's genealogy. She was an avid fan of professional basketball and football, especially enjoying the teams of her alma mater.
Survivors include two daughters, Mary E. Jordan of New Orleans and Martha J. Boright of Bonney Lake, Wash.; a son, James H. Jordan of Albany; two sisters, Marie P. Robertson of Yucaipa, Calif., and Caroline P. Kelley of Grants Pass; five grandchildren, two great-grandchildren, and many nieces and nephews.
In addition to her husband, she was preceded in death by a grandson, David L. Jordan.
Memorial services will be at 11:30 a.m. Saturday at Bethany Presbyterian Church with the Rev. Steve Parker officiating. Private interment will be at Hillcrest Memorial Park. Hull & Hull Funeral Directors is in charge of arrangements.
Contributions may be made to the Christian Children's Fund, P.O. Box 26511, Richmond, VA 23261; or to the Josephine County Library, 200 N.W. C St., Grants Pass, OR 97526.
She was born March 13, 1905, in Graham, Mo. During her early life she lived in Missouri, Utah and Colorado. As a young woman, she worked on a Navajo reservation in Arizona, tutoring a trader's daughter.
She moved with her family to Southern California in 1925. She earned a bachelor's degree in education and mathematics at University of California at Los Angeles in 1930. On Jan. 16, 1932, at Ontario, Calif., she married James Gee Jordan, who died in 1972. She lived in Grants Pass for 45 years and taught at Fruitdale and Jerome Prairie Elementary Schools. In 1969 she retired after 22 years of teaching. She moved to Buckley in 1991.
She was a member of the Grants Pass Bethany Presbyterian Church, serving as an elder and the head of the Sunday School department.
Jordan enjoyed supporting numerous children's charities and educational endeavors, reading, collecting books, camping, traveling the United States and abroad, photography, and researching and writing her family's genealogy. She was an avid fan of professional basketball and football, especially enjoying the teams of her alma mater.
Survivors include two daughters, Mary E. Jordan of New Orleans and Martha J. Boright of Bonney Lake, Wash.; a son, James H. Jordan of Albany; two sisters, Marie P. Robertson of Yucaipa, Calif., and Caroline P. Kelley of Grants Pass; five grandchildren, two great-grandchildren, and many nieces and nephews.
In addition to her husband, she was preceded in death by a grandson, David L. Jordan.
Former Grants Pass resident Olivia Peterson Jordan, 92, of Buckley, Wash., died Friday, Dec. 19, 1997, at Buckley.
Memorial services will be at 11:30 a.m. Saturday at Bethany Presbyterian Church with the Rev. Steve Parker officiating. Private interment will be at Hillcrest Memorial Park. Hull & Hull Funeral Directors is in charge of arrangements.
Contributions may be made to the Christian Children's Fund, P.O. Box 26511, Richmond, VA 23261; or to the Josephine County Library, 200 N.W. C St., Grants Pass, OR 97526.
She was born March 13, 1905, in Graham, Mo. During her early life she lived in Missouri, Utah and Colorado. As a young woman, she worked on a Navajo reservation in Arizona, tutoring a trader's daughter.
She moved with her family to Southern California in 1925. She earned a bachelor's degree in education and mathematics at University of California at Los Angeles in 1930. On Jan. 16, 1932, at Ontario, Calif., she married James Gee Jordan, who died in 1972. She lived in Grants Pass for 45 years and taught at Fruitdale and Jerome Prairie Elementary Schools. In 1969 she retired after 22 years of teaching. She moved to Buckley in 1991.
She was a member of the Grants Pass Bethany Presbyterian Church, serving as an elder and the head of the Sunday School department.
Jordan enjoyed supporting numerous children's charities and educational endeavors, reading, collecting books, camping, traveling the United States and abroad, photography, and researching and writing her family's genealogy. She was an avid fan of professional basketball and football, especially enjoying the teams of her alma mater.
Survivors include two daughters, Mary E. Jordan of New Orleans and Martha J. Boright of Bonney Lake, Wash.; a son, James H. Jordan of Albany; two sisters, Marie P. Robertson of Yucaipa, Calif., and Caroline P. Kelley of Grants Pass; five grandchildren, two great-grandchildren, and many nieces and nephews.
In addition to her husband, she was preceded in death by a grandson, David L. Jordan.
Memorial services will be at 11:30 a.m. Saturday at Bethany Presbyterian Church with the Rev. Steve Parker officiating. Private interment will be at Hillcrest Memorial Park. Hull & Hull Funeral Directors is in charge of arrangements.
Contributions may be made to the Christian Children's Fund, P.O. Box 26511, Richmond, VA 23261; or to the Josephine County Library, 200 N.W. C St., Grants Pass, OR 97526.
She was born March 13, 1905, in Graham, Mo. During her early life she lived in Missouri, Utah and Colorado. As a young woman, she worked on a Navajo reservation in Arizona, tutoring a trader's daughter.
She moved with her family to Southern California in 1925. She earned a bachelor's degree in education and mathematics at University of California at Los Angeles in 1930. On Jan. 16, 1932, at Ontario, Calif., she married James Gee Jordan, who died in 1972. She lived in Grants Pass for 45 years and taught at Fruitdale and Jerome Prairie Elementary Schools. In 1969 she retired after 22 years of teaching. She moved to Buckley in 1991.
She was a member of the Grants Pass Bethany Presbyterian Church, serving as an elder and the head of the Sunday School department.
Jordan enjoyed supporting numerous children's charities and educational endeavors, reading, collecting books, camping, traveling the United States and abroad, photography, and researching and writing her family's genealogy. She was an avid fan of professional basketball and football, especially enjoying the teams of her alma mater.
Survivors include two daughters, Mary E. Jordan of New Orleans and Martha J. Boright of Bonney Lake, Wash.; a son, James H. Jordan of Albany; two sisters, Marie P. Robertson of Yucaipa, Calif., and Caroline P. Kelley of Grants Pass; five grandchildren, two great-grandchildren, and many nieces and nephews.
In addition to her husband, she was preceded in death by a grandson, David L. Jordan.
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