Fresno, California

Feb. 21, 1982 — Dec. 20, 2024

After a brief illness, on Dec. 20 the “Gentle Giant from Alaska,” an appellation his co-workers and friends used for him, Jordan Jones abandoned his physical garment and his soul winged its way to the celestial abode.

Jordan was born in Wrangell, Alaska, and was the youngest son of Tod and Betsy Jones. He attended Wrangell elementary and middle school, then moved with his parents to Haifa, Israel, where they were volunteers at the Baha’i World Center.

He attended the international school in Tel Aviv, then returned to Alaska, in Seward, where he lived with his swimming coach and became an excellent swimmer. His senior year, he attended and graduated from Beaverton High School.

With very little formal training in computers, Jordan excelled and was a self-taught programmer, so much so that his employer acknowledged he was one of a very few in the San Francisco Bay Area with the skills he possessed.

Jordan lived, worked and studied with people of numerous backgrounds, ethnicities and faiths, and considered each and every one of them friends.

Generous to a fault, he devoted his life and any of his corporal possessions to anyone he felt needed them.

Jordan is survived by two older brothers, Daniel, in San Diego, and Chad, in Tucson, Arizona; two older sisters, Kim, in Longview, Washington, and Dr. Anisa Richardson, in Astoria, where his parents also reside.

A graveside service was held Jan. 8 at the Belmont Memorial Cemetery in Fresno, California.