Marva Jurdine

1955 - 2011

Services will be held Saturday, September 10th at 12:00 noon at the Riverhills Church of God, 6310 E. Sligh Avenue, Tampa, FL. Pastor Al Wolever with Pastor Tom Smith officiating. Entombment at Myrtle Hill Cemetery will be take place on Saturday.

Marva May Jurdine Nee Moodie born May 27, 1955 in Kinston Jamaica. She attended Withfiled Primary school, completed secondary education at Waulgrove College. She also attended Fitz Henley Commercial School where she majored in Accounting.

She migrated to the United States in 1975 and resided in New Jersey where she married and had a daughter, Tahayya.

She relocated with family to Tampa Florida, and started working at University Community Hospital as a Unit Secretary. While she worked in that capacity, she expanded her knowledge base juggling school and taking care of her family. She obtained her Associate Degree in Science from Hillsborough Community College after which she matriculated at the University of South Florida with a bachelor's degree in Management of Information Systems. She later obtained her Master's Degree in Business Administration from Saint Leo University. Her last position at was in the Information Systems Department for Clinical Informatics as Clinical Information Systems Analyst.

Church life was a very intricate part of her life from early childhood, beginning with Beeston Street New Testament Church of God in Kingston Jamaica, and later River Hills Church of God, Kingdom Bible Fellowship, and Fountain of blessing churches in the United States.

Some of Marva's church activities included, performing plays, and was famous for reciting poems as a child. Other church activities were working with children and teaching them songs. These children would sometimes accompany her to the various nursing homes where they all performed for the residence which made her very happy. Additionally, she would sing on the choir, conducted praise and worship, and sometimes delivered the message.

Marva loved and respected her parents and grandparents.
From early childhood, she was helpful to them without coerced. Consequently, she developed her communication and organizational skills. We had a family business, and one occasion, one of the stores had a lot of customers and Dad Panicked. Marva said, "Papa, I will take care of it, don't worry" and with her capable self she did.

Marva, wanted to make more contribution to society, and was deeply devoted to helping others in their walk in life, so she gave inspirational speeches at various outreach centers encouraging women who are abused, discouraged, divorced, etc.

She had very effective people skills and developed rapport with people very easily. She was an inspired woman, very independent, not easily swayed, had very strong opinion, and not afraid to voice them; she only wanted the best.

Marva is survived by daughter Tayahha, sisters, brother, nieces, nephews, grand nieces, and grand nephews, one uncle, cousins and extended family, UCH family, and