Willie Jordan

Willie Jordan

Funeral services for Elder Willie Jordan, of Dublin, will be held on Saturday, November 15, 2014, at 12 PM at the Brinson Hill Baptist Church, 493 South Main Street, Wadley, Georgia. Reverend Dr. David Kemp will officiate. Interment will follow in the Harts Grove Baptist Church Cemetery, 1044 Harts Grove Church Road in Stapleton, Georgia.

Elder Jordan, who passed on Sunday, November 9, 2014, was a native of Wadley, Jefferson County, Georgia and lived in Dublin for forty-one years. Until the time of his illness, Elder Jordan was the pastor of C. H. Haynes Restoration Church of God in Christ, which he founded. For over thirty-five years, he worked faithfully for the cause of Christ as sunday school superintendent and teacher, church musician (guitarist), deacon, bible class teacher, home intercessory prayer minister, and as a prison minister. He also served as associate Elder and member of the First Church of God in Christ in Soperton, Georgia. He was a honorably discharged Vietnam Veteran and retired from the South Central Health District as a Communicable Disease Specialist.

Elder Jordan was preceded in death by his mother, Dorothy Jordan, his wife, Rosa Haynes Jordan, and his sister, Barbara Jordan Strowbridge. He is survived by his daughter, Faith Jordan (Brian) Willingham, his two sons, King David Jordan and Jonathan Jordan, his granddaughter, Lyla Rose Willigham, his five sisters, Maude (John Henry) Lewis, Nellie (Doyle) Heath, Earnestine (Dr. David) Kemp, LaVelury (David) Powell, all of Wadley, and Betty Sue Jordan, Wrens, two brothers, Jerome Jordan, Jacksonville, Florida, and Edward Jordan, Wadley, three sisters-in-law, Mary Haynes Williams, Neomia Nicholson, and Inez (Albert, Jr.) Berry, and a host of nieces and nephews, cousins, other relatives, and friends.

An additional memorial service of celebration will be held in honor of Elder Jordan at the Loving Ministry Church of God in Christ, 116 Pritchett Street in Dublin, on Thursday, November 13, 2014, at 6:30 PM.

The Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity, Incorporated, Omega Service, and a wake will be held in the C. D. Dudley Memorial Chapel at the Dudley Funeral Home on Friday, November 14, 2014, 6-6:30 PM.

The family will receive friends at 224 Trinity Road in Dublin.

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