John H. JordanJohn H. Jordan, 77, Star Route, Mesa. Died Sunday at Kennewick General Hospital.
Mr. Jordan was born in Whitmer, W. Va., May 5, 1886 and was a retired lumberman. He belonged to the Orofino, Idaho Eagles Lodge, and Modern Woodsmen of the World.
Survivors include six sons, John, Ukiah, Ore.; Jack, Portland; Harry, Eugene, Ore.; Brannon and Clint, Lewiston; and Mack Rambeau, Orofino; one daughter, Mrs. Gordon (Marjorie) Rosenau, Star Route, Mesa; three brothers, two sisters, 21 grandchildren and 10 great-grandchildren.
Friends may call at Greenlee Funeral Home until 9 p.m. today and until noon tomorrow. Services will be at the Brower-Wann Chapel, Lewiston, with burial to follow in Normal Hill Cemetery.
Tri-City Herald, Pasco, Washington - February 10, 1964
425Source: Mid Rosenau at the 2000 Jordan Family Reunion
He lived with Mid (Marjorie - his daughter) & Gordon [Rosenau] for 6 years. Mid took him to the hospital and 45 minutes later he passed away. He had cancer, but suffered a heart attack and died in hospital.
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JOHN H. JORDAN PASSES AT 77OROFINO --
John Heltzel Jordan, 77, a retired lumberman and former resident of Orofino for 33 years, died at the Kennewick General Hospital, Kennewick, Wash., Sunday of a heart attack. He had been ill for a year and a half.
He was born May 20, 1886 in West Virginia, living there until 1909, when he moved to Frazer, Idaho. Two years later he moved to Montana, where he married Ica Waybright at Gildford in 1913. The following year he returned with his wife to Frazer, where he worked as a lumberman. In 1920 he moved to Weippe, where he logged for the next ten years. In 1930 he moved to Orofino, where he had remained until he became ill about a year and a half ago.
Following the death of his first wife in 1948, he had married Stella M. Rambeau at Orofino. She preceded him in death in May, 1955. Since becoming ill he had lived at Mesa, Wash. with a daughter, Mrs. Marjorie Rosenau.
He was a member of the Orofino Eagles lodge and the Modern Woodmen of the World.
Other survivors include five sons, Clint and Brannon, both Lewiston; Harry, Eugene, Ore., Jack, Portland, and John, Ukiah, Ore., three brothers, Fleet, Lewiston, Clint, Weippe, and Zan, Orofino; two sisters, Mrs. Jesse Snyder, Seattle, and Mrs. Blanche Norman, Akron, Ohio; 21 grandchildren and 10 great-grandchildren.
The funeral will be Wednesday at the Brower-Wann Chapel. The Rev. P. D. Unruh, pastor of the Orchards Congregational Community Church, will officiate. Burial will be at Normal Hill Cemetery.
~~Lewiston Morning Tribune, dated 11 February 1964
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