Extracted from The Lubbock Avalanche-Journal (Lubbock, TX)
Sunday, March 11, 1962

John W. Jorden [sic Jordan] Services Slated

DIMMITT (Special) -- Services for John Wesley Jorden [sic Jordan], who would have been 83 today, are at 3 p.m. Tuesday in the First Baptist Church here with the Rev. M. A. Smith, pastor, officiating.

Burial will be in Castro Memorial Gardens under direction of Dimmitt Funeral Home.

Jorden [sic Jordan], a native of Mississippi, died Friday afternoon at his home following a heart attack.

Survivors are three sons, Roy Jorden [sic Jordan], Austin, Mark Jorden [sic Jordan], Allenda, Calif. and W. T. Jorden [sic Jordan], Seattle, Wash.; three daughters, Mrs. Earl May, Sudan; Mrs. Howard Reynolds, Paloesce, Wash. and Mrs. Wilbur Cook, Dimmitt; 19 grandchildren and 13 great-grandchildren.