Phyllis Marie (Young) Jordan, 94 years of age, of Beatrice passed away Thursday, February 1, 2024 at Azria Health Longview in Missouri Valley, Iowa. She was born in Ellis on December 12, 1929 to Jesse and Fannie (Molyneux) Young. Phyllis graduated from Beatrice High School in 1947. She worked several places including Beatrice National Bank in Beatrice and Blue Star in Council Bluffs, Iowa. Phyllis was a former member of Centenary United Methodist Church in Beatrice. She enjoyed writing poems, photography, taking pictures, making calendars with dog pictures she took, plays, penguins and class reunions and bus trips where she was very involved with the printed materials associated with them.

Phyllis is survived by her daughter, Judy Sekera-Kozlowski and husband Tim of Fort Wayne, Indiana; grandchildren; great grandchildren; great great grandchildren; sister, Elaine Mills; and several nieces and nephews. She was preceded in death by her parents; son, Steven Charles Jordan; daughter, Kathleen Kay Griffin; and sister, Mary Severance and husband Monroe. 

Funeral Services will be held at 2:00 PM Monday, February 12, 2024 at Harman-Wright Mortuary in Beatrice with Pastor David Bigley officiating. Interment will follow in the Evergreen Home Cemetery in Beatrice. Visitation will be one hour prior to services on Monday. Memorials are suggested to the family’s choice in care of the mortuary. Condolences may be left online at www.harmanwrightmortuary.com. Harman-Wright Mortuary & Crematory in Beatrice in charge of arrangements.

 

After Glow 

I’d like the memory of me

to be a happy one.

I’d like to leave an after glow

of smiles when life is done.

 

I’d like to leave an echo

whispering softly down the ways,

Of happy times and laughing times

and bright and sunny days.

 

I’d like the tears of those who

grieve, to dry before the sun

Of happy memories that I leave

When life is done.