THE VIRGINIAN-PILOT
Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.
DATE: Friday, February 24, 1995 TAG: 9502240498
SECTION: LOCAL PAGE: B5 EDITION: FINAL
DATELINE: HERTFORD LENGTH: Short : 35 lines
George Weldon Jordan, 86, of 60-C Creek Trail in Snug Harbor, died Thursday morning, Feb. 23, 1995, in Pitt County Memorial Hospital.
A native of McCormick, S.C., he was the son of the late William Berry Jordan and Ella Jay Lawrence Jordan. He retired from the N.C. Department of Transportation as a materials engineer. Mr. Jordan was a member of Hertford United Methodist Church, the Snug Harbor Property Owner's Association Board of Directors and the American Legion and was a former member of the Engineers Club of Raleigh, N.C. He was a master sergeant in the Army during World War II. During that time he helped build the runways at Cherry Point Marine Air Station and in Brazil for launching planes to fight in Northern Africa. His service was spent in the Asiatic Pacific area of Okinawa, Korea and Japan.
Survivors include his wife, Alvis Riddick Jordan; four sisters, Lucille J. Palmer and Mary E. Dawson, both of Columbus, N.C., Eleanor Wilson of Columbia, S.C., and Agnes Smith of Due West, S.C., a brother, Robert M. Jordan of Columbus. He was predeceased by three brothers and two sisters.
A graveside service will be held Saturday at 2 p.m. in Gatesville Cemetery, Gatesville, N.C. The family will receive friends from 7 to 8:30 p.m. today at Swindell Funeral Home, Hertford. Flowers are acceptable or memorials may be made to the Hertford United Methodist Church, Perquimans Volunteer Rescue Squad or Bethel Volunteer Fire Department.
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