Chester Long Jordan's Obituary
Monday December 12, 2022, Chester Long Jordan, husband and father, grandfather passed away at the age of 92.
Chester was born August 23, 1930 to Chester and Leota (Peterson) Jordan in Wichita, KS. Chester's father's career as a sheet metal worker moved the family many times; Texas, Oklahoma and California, they moved to Claremore, Oklahoma in Chester's junior year of high school. He entered college in 1947 at Southern College in Chattanooga, TN where he met and married Annie Phillips in his final year of college.
Chet was a schoolteacher / pastor in Florida and Louisiana and in Lawton, Oklahoma. They then moved on to director chaplain of the service men center for the general conference of Seventh Day Adventist in San Antonio. They then went to Denver, Colorado as hospital chaplain for Advent Health Systems and continued in Greybull, WY as hospital chaplain. He finished his pastoring career in Miami, FL.
Upon his retirement they moved to Howey In The Hills, FL where before his wife Annie passed in 1995 they served as volunteers in South Korea. He remarried Bettie and they traveled and served the Seventh day Adventist church in Germany, they also volunteered at the William Miller Farm in New York and the Bates home in Massachusetts.
He was an avid reader and enjoyed working with technology and on computers.
He is survived by his wife, Bettie; 3 children, Joy Diener (Pete), Jonathan Jordan and Jim Jordan (Angie); step son, Kevin Gilliam (Debbie); 7 grandchildren, Kara Graeber, Justin Williams, Sarah Bloom, Nathaniel Jordan, and Ava, Joseph, and Meaghan Jordan; 3 great-grandchildren; a sister, Dellene Meister (Lowell); and numerous nieces and nephews. Chester was preceded in death by his wife, Annie Phillips and daughter, Jan Williams.
Chester loved serving the Lord and others. Love is what matters he said "We need to love each other".
Services will be held at Steverson Hamlin & Hilbish Funeral Home, Tavares, FL on Sunday, December 18, 2022. Viewing from 12:00PM until 1:00PM with a funeral service following at 1:00PM.
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