Athens Messenger - May 19, 2015
ATHENS — Mary Kaye Jordan, 76, of Athens, passed away on Monday, May 18, 2015, at the James Cancer Hospital in Columbus.
The daughter of John and Madeline Steltzer, she grew up in Rimersburg, Pa., and was a Phi Beta Kappa graduate of Grove City College. She did graduate work in French at West Virginia University, and received an MA in linguistics from Ohio University.
She was a long-time faculty member in the Ohio Program in Intensive English (OPIE) at OU, where she mentored hundreds of students and founded the Athens Friends of International Students (AFIS) to help them feel more at home.
She was passionate about helping others and building community, serving as president of the O’Bleness Hospital Guild and president of the Social Literary Club. She chaired the Tuesday Club, and was a session elder at the First Presbyterian Church, where she also taught Sunday school. She helped found the Athens Swim Club, was a member of the Athens High School Academic Boosters, a patron at Quilt National and the Dairy Barn, and gathered together with cherished friends for more than four decades in her book group to talk about literature and life.
ATHENS — Mary Kaye Jordan, 76, of Athens, passed away on Monday, May 18, 2015, at the James Cancer Hospital in Columbus.
The daughter of John and Madeline Steltzer, she grew up in Rimersburg, Pa., and was a Phi Beta Kappa graduate of Grove City College. She did graduate work in French at West Virginia University, and received an MA in linguistics from Ohio University.
She was a long-time faculty member in the Ohio Program in Intensive English (OPIE) at OU, where she mentored hundreds of students and founded the Athens Friends of International Students (AFIS) to help them feel more at home.
She was passionate about helping others and building community, serving as president of the O’Bleness Hospital Guild and president of the Social Literary Club. She chaired the Tuesday Club, and was a session elder at the First Presbyterian Church, where she also taught Sunday school. She helped found the Athens Swim Club, was a member of the Athens High School Academic Boosters, a patron at Quilt National and the Dairy Barn, and gathered together with cherished friends for more than four decades in her book group to talk about literature and life.
Athens Messenger - May 19, 2015
ATHENS — Mary Kaye Jordan, 76, of Athens, passed away on Monday, May 18, 2015, at the James Cancer Hospital in Columbus.
The daughter of John and Madeline Steltzer, she grew up in Rimersburg, Pa., and was a Phi Beta Kappa graduate of Grove City College. She did graduate work in French at West Virginia University, and received an MA in linguistics from Ohio University.
She was a long-time faculty member in the Ohio Program in Intensive English (OPIE) at OU, where she mentored hundreds of students and founded the Athens Friends of International Students (AFIS) to help them feel more at home.
She was passionate about helping others and building community, serving as president of the O’Bleness Hospital Guild and president of the Social Literary Club. She chaired the Tuesday Club, and was a session elder at the First Presbyterian Church, where she also taught Sunday school. She helped found the Athens Swim Club, was a member of the Athens High School Academic Boosters, a patron at Quilt National and the Dairy Barn, and gathered together with cherished friends for more than four decades in her book group to talk about literature and life.
ATHENS — Mary Kaye Jordan, 76, of Athens, passed away on Monday, May 18, 2015, at the James Cancer Hospital in Columbus.
The daughter of John and Madeline Steltzer, she grew up in Rimersburg, Pa., and was a Phi Beta Kappa graduate of Grove City College. She did graduate work in French at West Virginia University, and received an MA in linguistics from Ohio University.
She was a long-time faculty member in the Ohio Program in Intensive English (OPIE) at OU, where she mentored hundreds of students and founded the Athens Friends of International Students (AFIS) to help them feel more at home.
She was passionate about helping others and building community, serving as president of the O’Bleness Hospital Guild and president of the Social Literary Club. She chaired the Tuesday Club, and was a session elder at the First Presbyterian Church, where she also taught Sunday school. She helped found the Athens Swim Club, was a member of the Athens High School Academic Boosters, a patron at Quilt National and the Dairy Barn, and gathered together with cherished friends for more than four decades in her book group to talk about literature and life.
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