SEAMAN 1ST CLASS STEWART JORDAN

Seaman 1st Class Stewart Jordan, 20, was killed on June 12, 1944, when the USS Nelson was hit by enemy torpedo fire off the coast of Normandy, France and his remains were not recovered at that time.

In November 1944, a Quartermaster Graves Registration Service team was notified about human remains that washed ashore at Normandy on an unspecified date during the Allied invasion. The remains were recovered by declared unidentifiable and interred as “unknowns” at the Normandy Amercan Cemetery. In 2018, the DPAA and the American Battle Monuments Commission exhumed this set of “unknowns” for analysis in a DPAA laboratory. DPAA analysis used modern forensic techniques that combined with historical and processing records. On August 28, 2019, the Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency (DPAA) identified the remains of Seaman 1st Class Stewart Jordan, missing from World War II.

He was born February 9, 1924 in Clinchco; son of Edd Luther and Mary Baker Jordan. At the time of his death, he left behind his wife, Gloria Shirley Jordan; one son, Stewart Charles Jordan Jr.; two sisters, Beulah Edwards and husband, Ted and Maudie Mae Webb and husband, Willard; and four brothers, Willard, Jordan and wife, Mildred, Charlie Jordan and wife, Dottie, George Jordan wife, Irene and Bill Jordan wife, Ann.

He is survived by several nephews, nieces, great nephews, great nieces and cousins.

Funeral services were conducted on September 8, 2021 at Castlewood Funeral Home with his great nephews, the Rev. Windell Ely and Dr. Macel Ely officiated. Interment followed in the Temple Hill Memorial Park, Castlewood. Full Military Honors were conducted by the U.S. Military Honor Guard. Pallbearers were the U.S. Navy. Viewing of the services is available on www.castlewoodfuneralhome.com.