Ida Jordan 1869-1935

JORDAN, EGBERT, NELSON

Posted By: Sharon K Hesebeck (email)
Date: 1/1/2023 at 11:42:52

Funeral services were held last Friday afternoon at 2:30 o'clock at the Grace Methodist Episcopal church for Miss Ida Jordan, 66, Instructor In piano In Spencer for the past 30 years, who passed away last Wednesday of heart complications.
Dr. H. E. Hutchinson, pastor, officiated, and also conducted a family service at the Cobb, chapel at two o'clock.
Church Filled
Friends of Miss Jordan filled the church auditorium to capacity, and members of the Clef club were seated together. A bower, of flowers made a background for the casket, and lined the area in the foreground.
Bearing the casket to its resting place in Riverside cemetery were J.W. Chenhall, R.L. Jones, Ed Squier, Will Becket, Emil Groth and R.S. Brown.
Ida M. Jordan was born in Henry county near Galva, Illinois, June 4, 1869. She lived there and in Stark county until 1906. She engaged in her profession of teaching music, and when in 1906 she came with her parents to a farm in Clay county near Spencer, she organized a class in music. Since that time she has always maintained a studio here.
Normal Work
She received her early education in Toulon, Illinois and studied both piano and violin. She. afterward studied with Kathryn Rose Larmer at the American academy of Music and Art in Chicago, graduate of the Conservatory of Music in Leipzig, Germany. Miss Jordan took pipe organ lessons from Mason Slade of Chicago, who had taken four years work in France.
For three summers Miss Jordan was coached in extensive normal work in music under Carolyn Bowen of the MacPhail School of Music at Minneapolis. .
Miss Jordan became a Christian early in life, joining the Methodist church in West Jersey, Illinois. This membership was transferred to Spencer when she came here, since which time she has been a member of the Grace church. She served as organist at the West Jersey Church and gave the same service for two years at the Spencer church.
Public Spirited
She was interested in all departments of the church, and gave assistance in all. For ten years she taught in the primary department of the church school. By her personal contributions she maintained a native worker in India. She was public spirited, and gave aid to any worthy cause for the betterment of her city.
For a number of years she was a member of the Spencer Clef club Retiring and self effacing by nature, Miss Jordan did much good as an expression of a devoted Christian character.
Three sisters and two brothers preceded Miss Jordan in death. They were Mary, Effie, and Alice and Daniel and Glenn.
Those Bereft
Surviving are a brother, Lewis Jordan of near Spencer; three sisters, Mrs. C.F. Egbert of Toulon, Illinois, Mrs. Andrew Nelson of Lemmon, S.D., and Miss Rose Jordan, a teacher in the Lincoln school, and nieces and nephews.
Mrs. Nelson and daughter of Lemmon and Mrs. Egbert of Toulon were in Spencer for funeral services.
Miss Jordan filled a unique place in the musical life of Spencer. Her studio was the scene of many recitals and meetings of the Clef club, and her pupils have numbered in the many hundreds. Beloved by all who knew her, the place occupied by Miss Jordan will be left vacant for time to come.
Page 11 of Spencer News Herald, published in Spencer, Iowa on Friday, November 29th, 1935