Mary William Jordan

Mary lived most of her childhood near Exeter, New Hampshire. As a student at the University of New Hampshire during World War II, when the university was drained of male students, she met Trenholm Douglas Jordan, a high school age student in a wartime university agricultural training program. They eloped in 1945 while Tren was in the Navy and they returned to New Hampshire while he completed college. In 1951 they relocated with their first daughter to Brocton NY. They purchased a small grape farm in Portland NY in 1955, where they raised their four children. Mary enjoyed tying grape vines in the spring and harvesting in the fall with crews of women friends for month-long chat-fests, catching up on the news of the families and activities of the community while the children played nearby. Mary bowled in a women’s league, she was an enthusiastic ski patroller at Eagle Ridge Ski Area, and she was chauffeur for endless activities of her children. After the kids grew up, Mary and Tren routinely spent winters in Georgia, primarily on Jekyll Island, where they golfed and enjoyed the companionship of numerous friends. In Westfield, they were active in square dance and line dance groups and were members of the Westfield Moose Lodge 118. Mary served on the Board of Directors of Westfield Maid. In 2004, she and Tren moved to their final home, also a grape farm, on Main Street in Portland. There, she followed the family’s development of Olde Chautauqua Farms and 21 Brix Winery. From 2020, her locally based children Nancy, Mike and Marion, grandchildren Bailey, Vincent and Kris, and extended family Louise and Noah provided full time companionship so that Mary could continue to live at home surrounded by love and laughter.

Mary was predeceased by her parents, siblings Priscilla Williams Lang and Edward Ellsworth Williams (Pauline), brother- and sister-in-law Clyde and Maria Jordan, son Douglas, and husband Trenholm.

She is survived by brothers-and sisters-in-law Gerald and Bettie Jordan, Arnold and Mariann Jordan, and Al Lang, by children Nancy Schuster of Westfield, Teresa Jordan (Richard Allmendinger) of Warner, NH, and Michael (Marion) Jordan of Portland, nine grandchildren and their spouses, and 15 great-grandchildren.

Friends may call at the Morse Funeral Home, 51 Highland Avenue, Brocton, NY on Tuesday May 2, 2023, from 4:00 PM – 6:00 PM. A private burial at Portland Evergreen Cemetery will be held at a later date, and a celebration of life is being planned for summer.

Memorial contributions in honor of Mary can be made to Chautauqua Hospice and Palliative Care, 20 West Fairmount Avenue, Lakewood NY 14750.

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