Funeral Services Set for Jack Jordan

Funeral services have been set for Charles “Jack” Jordan, who passed away on May 1.

Mr. Jordan, 90, was a World War II U.S. Navy veteran, who served as East Ridge’s Commissioner of Streets and Sewers. Mr. Jordan most recently served our city as Chairman of the Housing Commission.

The family will receive friends from 5-8 p.m. on Thursday, May 5, at the East Chapel of Chattanooga Funeral Home, 404 South Moore Road, East Ridge, Tn. 37412. Graveside services will be held at 10:30 a.m. on Friday, May 6, at the Chattanooga National Cemetery with Reverend Terry Messer officiating.

He was a member of the East Ridge Merchant’s Association, East Ridge Old Timers Club, Kiwanis Club and the VFW.

Mr. Jordan was preceded in death by his wife, Eva Christine Jordan, parents, William Ambrose Jordan and Leslie Kennedy Jordan and two brothers Harold and William Jordan.

Survivors include four daughters, Connie Jordan Givens (Robert), Leslie Jordan-Williams (Russ), Jacqueline Sue Forrester (Michael) and Christine Jordan Holmes (Earl); eight grandchildren; 18 great-grandchildren; two great-great-grandchildren.

About Dick Cook

Dick Cook has lived in East Ridge since the Kennedy Administration when his parents bought a house on Marietta Street. Dick graduated from ERHS in 1976 before going on to the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga where he studied Political Science. Dick worked for the Chattanooga Free-Press and the Chattanooga Times Free Press for 22 years. Free-Press Sports Editor Roy Exum plucked him out of production in 1989 and gave him a job as a sports reporter. Dick covered everything from prep sports to the whitewater events on the Ocoee River for the 1996 Olympics. When Chattanooga's two paper's merged, he became the Crime Reporter covering both the Chattanooga Police and Fire Departments. He was among reporters who were honored by the Associated Press for the TFP's coverage of the 2002 fog-shrouded crash on I-75 in Catoosa County, Dick and his wife, Cathy, live on Marlboro Avenue where they are seen frequently chasing around their three grandsons.