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Submitted: 7/7/21 • Approved: 7/7/21 • Last Updated: 7/10/21 • R434356-G434354-S3
Burford K.
1900-1949
Rose Lena
1903-1989
Photo/information, courtesy of Edith Guynes Stanley
*Obituary Burford K.
B.K. Jordan, 48, of 407 Deahl, died at 1 a.m. today in the North Plains hospital following a lingering illness.
He was an employee of the Jennings Furniture Co., and formerly an expressman in Borger. He has resided in Borger for 22 years.
Survivors other than his wife, Mrs. B.K. Jordan of Borger, include a daughter, Mrs. Durwood Kimbrough of Clovis, New Mexico; his parents, Mr. and Mrs. S.W. Jordan of Amarillo; a sister, Mrs. Thelma Moore of Tulsa, Oklahoma; two brothers, O.M. and D.H., both of Amarillo; a grandson, Terry Lynn Kimbrough of Clovis.
Funeral services will be held at 3 p.m. tomorrow in the First Baptist church with the Rev. Paul B. Cullen, pastor, officiating. Interment will be in the Highland Park cemetery under the direction of the Minton Funeral Home.
Casket bearers will be Ora Harrelson, L.R. Burns, Walter Forbes, Jesse C. Rinn, Otis Thompson and G.L. McQuigan.
(Published in Borger News Herald, October 31, 1949)
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Oklahoma, County Marriage Records, 1890-1995
Name: Burford K Jordan
Gender: Male
Age: 24
Birth Date: abt 1901
Marriage Date: 15 Jan 1925
Marriage Place: Tillman, Oklahoma, USA
Spouse: Lena Hodges
Film Number: 002208601
Texas, Death Index, 1903-2000
Name: Burforf K. Jordan
Death Date: 31 Oct 1949
Death County: Hutchinson
Certificate: 49163
Texas, Death Certificates, 1903-1982
Name: Burford K Jordan
Gender: Male
Race: White
Age: 48
Birth Date: 16 Nov 1900
Birth Place: Frost, Texas
Residence: Borger, Hutchinson, Texas, USA
Death Date: 31 Oct 1949
Death Place: Borger, Hutchinson, Texas, USA
Father: S W Jordan
Mother: Sally M Givins
*Obituary Rose Lena
CLOVIS, N.M. - Rose Lena Jordan, 86, Clovis, died Wednesday, Nov. 22, 1989, in High Plains Hospital in Clovis.
Funeral services were at 2 p.m. Friday in Steed-Todd Funeral Home Chapel with Dr. Herbert Bergstron, pastor, officiating.
Graveside services will be at 3 p.m. Saturday at Highland Park Cemetery in Borger.
Burial will be by Steed-Todd Funeral Directors.
Mrs. Jordan was born Aug. 25, 1903, and had lived in Clovis for 20 years.
She was a homemaker and member of the First Baptist Church in Clovis where she worked in the nursery.
She married Buford Jordan Jan. 15, 1925, in Oklahoma.
Survivors include a daughter and son-in-law, Loyce and Durwood Kimbrough of Santa Fe, N.M.; four sisters, Jessie McKinley and Pauline Woodall, both of Fredrick, Okla.; Ruby Taylor of Kingfisher, Okla.; and Alma Ruth Allen of Bethany, Okla.; one brother, Bob Hodges; two grandchildren; and five great-grandchildren.
(Published in Borger News Herald, Friday, November 24, 1989)
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Oklahoma, County Marriage Records, 1890-1995
Name: Lena Hodges
Gender: Female
Age: 21
Birth Date: abt 1904
Marriage Date: 15 Jan 1925
Marriage Place: Tillman, Oklahoma, USA
Spouse: Burford K Jordan
Film Number: 002208601
U.S., Social Security Death Index, 1935-2014
Name: Rose L. Jordan
Birth Date: 25 Aug 1903
Issue Year: Before 1951
Issue State: Kansas
Death Date: 22 Nov 1989
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