Pike County Alabama Obituary.. Ocie Maxwell Jordan 1962
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Troy Messenger
6-24-1962

Burns Fatal To City Employee
Ocie Maxwell Jordan 33 a Troy Utilities Department employee, 
died in a local hospital Friday from burns received late 
Thursday afternoon.
Jordan was burned while installing a transformer on a pole on 
the campus of Charles Henderson High School. The accident 
occurred when a support brace for a cross arm broke causing 
the cross carrying a 7,200 volt line to swing down on Jordan. 
He fell and was lodged between two dead transformers.
Funeral services will be held Sunday at 4 o'clock at 
Enon Baptist Church with Rev. J. C. Anderson and 
Elder Gilbert Walker officiating. The body will lie in state 
at the church from three until four. Burial will be in Enon 
cemetery with McGehee Funeral Home directing.
Survivors include the wife, Mrs. Ocie M. Jordan of Troy: 
parents, Mr. and Mrs. Virgil Jordan, Sr. of Ansley: 
two sisters, Mrs. Sara Rollins, of Dearborn, Michigan: 
Mrs. Robbie Mae Sessions, of Abiano, Italy: 
four brothers, St. Sgt. Rex Jordan of Waco, Texas: 
Virgil Jordan Jr., of Grady, Route 1: Walter Jordan of Eufaula: 
Elvin B. Jordan, Lackland, AFB, Texas: several nieces and nephews.
Active pallbearers are Ferris Cleckler, James Wood, 
Carvel Anderson, Oree Grimes, Chester McLendon, Phillip Rutherford, 
Herbert Youngblood, Kenneth Law.

**Notes**
Mrs. Ocie M. Jordan is Mamie Sue McLendon daughter of 
William D. McLendon and Flossie Estelle Renfroe.
Chester McLendon is Chester D. son of Emmett Samuel McLendon 
and Mollie Anna Lou McLendon