On Thursday, February 03, 2005, our mother, Anne Margaret (Sis) Jordan, closed her eyes to this world and looked into the face of her Savior, the Lord Jesus Christ.
Born to Oscar and Susie (Youngblood) Overstreet September 25, 1921 in Nona, Texas, where she grew up with her sister Dixie (Donelson) and her three brothers Cecil, Burr and A.B. (all deceased).
Margaret graduated from Kountze High School in 1938 where she had been an outstanding basketball player. During her senior year at St. Mary’s Nursing School in Port Arthur, Texas, she married Floyd Clayton Jordan, Sr. After World War II, Margaret and Floyd moved to Polk County, near the Segno Oilfield, and there spent the remainder of their lives.
Margaret was preceded in death by her husband, 2 infant daughters and 2 grandsons, Scott Clayton Jordan and Jonas Floyd McMillian.
Survivors include 5 children, Floyd C. (Sandy) Jordan, Jr. Bonnie Gates, Ginger Jordan- Schulz (Carl), Susan Cain (Buddy) and Joliene Overstreet (James); 8 grandchildren, 8 great-grandchildren and 1 great-great grandchild.
The family would like to take this opportunity to thank the two wonderful women who were Mother’s caregivers, Tricia Lambright and Kay Sanders. May God bless you for loving Mother and treating her with such tender care and dignity.
Services will be held Saturday, February 5, 2005 at 2:00 P.M. at Broussard’s Chapel, 700 W. Saratoga Hwy, Kountze, Texas with Pastor Mitchell Murphy officiating and Pastor Joe Sanders assisting in the services. Burial will follow at Holland Cemetery in Kountze.
Pallbearers: grandsons, Brian and Hunter Cain, Scott McMillian and Michael Overstreet; great-grandson, Mitchell Davis and family friend, Hawk Lambright.
Honorary pallbearers: Winston Overstreet, Dr. James Donelson, Jimmy Jordan, Fred Sherron, Jr, Dr. Dick Sherron, Jimmy Jones, James Lambright, Johnny Crosby and Robert Rivers.
