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Jeannette mcintyre
July 12, 2025
Love you and miss you more than you know
Jim Jordan
June 1, 2025
Bill was abo a naval warship in Atlantic waters when I (Jim. the youngest brother) was born. Other sailors were getting notices from their wives about newborns. Your mother had a baby???? WOW.
Mark Dilley
June 1, 2025
In loving memory of a wonderful person. We will love you and miss you always.
Jim Jordan
June 1, 2024
A Life
Life "Well done, good and faithful servant". Matthew 25:23
Charlotte Pietsch
June 7, 2021
So I can't quite wrapy my brain around the date, never could. It's still a very sad day for me, it always will be. Others have crossed over and are with you now and that makes my heart happy. I wish I could just have one more day with you, to see you smile, hear you laugh and tell you I love you.
Jim Jordan
June 1, 2021
As I studied the memories shared in your Guest Book, I remain convinced that you are still with us. You are such a role model for all of us.
Jim Jordan
June 1, 2020
How long will I miss you?
I am not sure how to answer.
What is the difference between Always and Forever?
James Jordan
June 1, 2019
June 2. 2007. I remember that day. I remember your military service. Most of all , I remember what you meant to everyone in our family.
Jim Jordan
November 11, 2017
Hi Brother
Here we are at Veteran's Day.
A day when we stop and honor you.
Thank you for your service. Because of you and thousands like you, I have freedom, I appreciate your service when our country called for you to be away from your home, your family, and Margaret.
Now, Margaret is with you, along with many of your family.
Thank you and LOVE to you and your sweetheart.
Jim
Jim Jordan
July 17, 2016
A million times we needed you
A million times we cried
If love alone would have saved you
You never would have died
charlotte pietsch
February 26, 2016
I found the penny this morning, right where you left it. wasn't there when I walked thru the kitchen earlier. I have a whole jar of pennies that you have left. Soft pink carnations and pink baby roses made the most beautiful floral arraignment in your honor for your birthday.
We all wore blue-your favorite color, and Robert saluted a flag flying in Columbus, Texas in your honor. He called me to tell me he was doing this, and I heard his voice crack...then Robert told me the story of how the last living veteran that carried the flag to the top of the hill had passed away the day before your birthday and how fitting it is that the veteran is now most likely within the company of his fellow veterans.
It does not matter how much time has gone by, we still feel the loss of you here on this earthly plane because your life and love touched so many. Thank you for the pennies, those of us that receive them know they are from you, thank you for your visits, my what a beautiful butterfly you are!
I love you daddy and miss you each day...
Charlotte
P.S. I heard your laughter in my ear yesterday as I taught my front yard man how to prune the crepe myrtles, and have now turned that task over to him...yes, it's funny.
Jim Jordan
February 25, 2016
Happy Birthday to my Big Brother
Rest well, VET. Job well done.
Your Little Brother
Jim Jordan
January 3, 2016
Well, you did it again.
Jan and I went to a movie with a friend. There it was on the floor
A PENNY.
No one had bother it.
I know it was not there just a second earlier. YOU DID IT.
I keep up with your sweet wife. One day soon she will be with you.
You Little Brother
Jim Jordan
November 7, 2015
You Did It AGAIN !!!!!!!!
I have been working in a warehouse where we area storing some furniture of an ex-tenant. About 4 of us working together. Two of the guys I not worked together.
One of my new friends came over to me and handed me a penny. "Put this in your pocket for good luck".
I had walked in that area many times. The penny was never there. How did he know to pick it up and give it to me?
Oh, quit your giggling. I know you did it. I just do not know how you did it.
You must show me someday.
I speak to your sweetheart often. And, what a sweetheart he is.
Your Little Brother.
Jim
jIm Jordan
September 11, 2015
TODAY is THE day. September 11.
It all started with 'Hi, you must be Margaret Exely. My name is Billy Jordan".
Then, the long love story started. It will never end. It will live forever in the hearts and minds of all your family.
Love to you from your Little Brother.
September 11, 2015
Today is you're and momma's wedding anniversary! Momma misses you so much, she talks about you and I see the sadness in her eyes because she is here on earth without you. Your lives together are truly a testament to marriage, working together as a team, and unconditional love. Thanks for being great teachers, you taught me many things through the years and watching your relationship was a daily reminder to me of how to love. One day momma will be with you, I will be sad to loose her, but happy she is reunited with you... the love of her life....Billy Jordan.
I love and miss you everyday...keep sending the butterflies and keep leaving pennies for uncle Jim and I ..we know it's YOU and we both hear your giggle!
Jim Jordan
September 9, 2015
Hi Billy Jordan....
Well, you have done it again.
I always take all my change out of my pant's pocket before I put them away.
I went to put on a pair of pants Friday and a penny dropped on the floor. I laid the penny on my desk to remind me to write to you.
Two days passed and I not taken the time to write this. Then, I felt a penny in my pants after they came back from the cleaners. The owner of the cleaners always checks pockets for any items.
SO how do you do this? Do you go into my closet and put pennies in my pants?
I then I remember putting the first penny on desk with the face side down. The next day, the face side was up. Maybe I just forgot. Or, maybe you did all of this to remind me to send you this note.
Someday you must tell me how you do this. I think I just heard you giggle.
Well, Friday is your big day. That is why I wrote this as "Hi Billy Jordan".
I recall you said that to your future sweetheart one day. "Hi, I am Billy Jordan. You must be (my future wife)".
Little Brother
Jim Jordan
July 12, 2015
Hi Bill.
Thought of you today. No reason; I just did. I feed Mr. and Mrs. Duck today. You know, you send them and every duck in North Texas when I put out food. I can't afford to feed every duck in North Texas !!!!
Jane Albert
June 21, 2015
Happy Father's Day really miss you and think of you always, Helped Mike with a chicken pen yesterday and Talked about how you would have done it turned out Great. I know you would be so proud of Mike he has you in him at everything he does Love and Miss You Happy Father's Day
Margaret Jordan
May 25, 2015
Dear Bill,
Today I said a prayer for you and all the other family members, Charles, John, Billy Joe, Fred, who served in the military and protected me. Kept the rest of us safe through the years. Thanks to all of you.
Love always,
Margaret
Jim Jordan
May 25, 2015
Because of you and millions of others like you, I am a free man today. thank you for your service.
Your Little Brother
Jim Jordan
May 17, 2015
I thought of you today.
jIM jORDAN
May 7, 2015
FOUND THE BRIGHT, NEW PENNY YOU LEFT FOR ME IN THE STORE PARKING LOT TODAY. some DAY SOON YOU MUST TELL ME HOW YOU DO THAT.
Jim Jordan
February 24, 2015
Today is your birthday. I am happy for you. I miss you much. I am proud the way you served our country and built your family. You touched many lives. Especially mine. am forever in your debt.
Your little brother.
Margare t Jordan
February 24, 2015
Dear Bill,
Today you would be 89 years old. I think of you every day as I try to keep our little traditions alive. Making extra coffee on weekends, the toasts with our morning orange juice. Some I don't have the strength to continue, but I still remember them fondly. I don't change the decorations on the walls. You put most of them there, and I like them and see no reason to change them. They all represent your interests: trains, lighthouses, Texas, America, Shell, family. You have been gone for many years now, but you still are and will always be the brightest spot in my life. Happy Birthday, my darling.
Love always,
Margaret
C. Pietsch
February 24, 2015
Happy Birthday daddy, I know the heavens and angels are celebrating your day. I wish you were here physically, but I feel you everyday around me, thanks for the visits!
Charlotte
Jim Jordam
February 23, 2015
One More day to your Birthday. That is just one of many memories that you liked to celebrate.
Jim Jordan
February 23, 2015
One more day to your birthday. Just one of many happy times in you life. Miss you so.
February 17, 2015
My hart longs to see you.
Your Little Brother
Jim Jordan
December 27, 2014
A nice man parked in the handicapped space next to mine. He was wearing a WWII cap. We visited at length about his service and yours. He was a cook on a naval vessel in the North Atlantic. He descr5ed how cold it was. He said he was lucky to be a cook because the kitchen was always warm.
Did you send him to talk to me?
You Little Brother
December 24, 2014
Dear Bill,
This year there has been a lot of talk about nostalgia, about memories of the best Christmas present, the best family gathering, etc. This is one of my best Christmas memories.
I am sitting in the living room of the house at 1639 Santa Monica in San Antonio. On the radio, Bing Crosby is singing "White Christmas," and I am looking across the street at the house at 1701 Santa Monica. I am a little nervous because I took twenty-five cents of the money I had saved while working at Mosk's in Houston on Saturdays since I was 12 years old - Mr. Sam Mosk counting up the money on Saturdays and then saying, "Give Margy a dollar. She's been a good girl" - and bought a blue and yellow Worry Bird made from a painted pine cone. I put in a note saying, "For algebra troubles," and wrapped it as a present. I took it across the street and left it for you, saying that it was a present from my family. Your mother told you that you ought to give them a present, and they were very surprised when you brought a box of candy over and thanked them for their gift. Especially since they hadn't known anything about it!
The candy was eaten long ago. You are dead now, and of all the people living in those two houses on Santa Monica Street, I am the only one still alive; but the Worry Bird is still here with me.
I miss you, darling.
Love always,
Margaret
Michael Jordan
November 27, 2014
I sure miss you on these holiday's... I will always remember how you kept our family traditions going at this time of year. wish you were hear to get this family back to those traditions... I know you are watching over us and I know you have always been here. I love and miss you so much
Jim Jordan
November 26, 2014
Hi Big Brother....
Tomorrow is Thanksgiving Day. I wish you were here with us. And, Mother and Daddy were here too.
I am sad tonight.
Your Little Brother
Jim Jordan
November 10, 2014
November 11 will be Veteran's Day.
Thank you for what you and your generation did for our freedom.
Your Little Brother
Margaret Jordan
September 11, 2014
Dear Bill,
Once again it is the anniversary of our wedding. As I have said many times before, you are the best thing that ever happened in my life. We had so much fun together in all those happy years. While I wish we had made a few different choices at times (mostly financial), I wouldn't want to change a decision that we made together.
When I consider how few times we had actually seen each other in the six years before our wedding, I realize that the Lord had truly made us for each other, and I thank Him for His watchful care of us.
Happy anniversary, my darling.
Love always,
Margaret
Jim Jordan
September 1, 2014
Today is Labor Day, 21014.
You have done it again in the last few days. Yesterday, you left two pennies in a shopping center parking lot. Today you put one in my drive way.
Someday you must tell me how you do that.
Jim Jordan
June 5, 2014
Every love relationship is beautiful.
The love relationship between you and Margaret is my favorite.
Jim
June 4, 2014
The e-mail message said their was a new entry in your guest book, but when I came to the site, there is no new entry. so I began to wonder what going on...how silly of me, it's YOU! The poem, yes, that is you and momma and your love for each other, and the words below from momma, you are just in the other room....
Love to you,
Charlotte
Margaret Jordan
June 2, 2014
Dear Bill,
Today I wore blue because it was your favorite color. I had oatmeal for breakfast, although I am not really an oatmeal person, because it was your very favorite breakfast dish. Dessert this evening was a fudge pie made by the recipe that dates back to at least 1953. All day I saw butterflies in the front yard and the back yard. Butterflies have come to symbolize you. Today, although a sad anniversary, was filled with good memories.
Love always,
Margaret
Margaret Jordan
June 2, 2014
Dear Bill,
Seven years ago today was when you left us. I will not say "when you died," for you did not die - you only went into another room. Everything here reminds me of you, and I have made only a few changes in the kitchen to make my cooking easier. Why should I make a lot of changes from the way you arranged the pictures and the furniture? This way, I can pretend you are still here with me every day.
Love always,
Margaret
May 27, 2014
Monday May 26, 2014
Robert & I were outside at the right time and saw the missing man plain formation for the Bastrop County Memorial Day event. The flight path the plains take goes right over our house. We knew you were right there watching with us. Thanks for the great timing and your visit.
I love you so much, there are days when it is still so hard.
Charlotte
Margaret Jordan
May 26, 2014
Dear Bill,
Fred put the flags out early today to honor the memory of you and all the other veterans. I think of you every day and remember you in so many ways. As the young sailor in the picture I have on the dresser, the young husband who helped me learn how to cook in that first apartment, the proud homeowner when we bought the house on 30th Street, the loving father to our children. Life would be nothing without memories. I love you, Bill.
Love always,
Margaret
Jim Jordan
May 26, 2014
No solider pointed a weapon at me today.
None shot at any of my friends.
Not of my neighbors faced torture for what they believed.
I can shoot bad name at my government and no one will stop me.
I have and enjoy many rights
All of this and more made possible by the US VETERAN
MY DEEPEST THANKS TO YOU FOR FIGHTING THE WAR IN THE NORTH ATLANTA AND MARAGAET DOING HER PART AT HOME. THE TWO OF YOU AND MANY OTHERS MADE TODAY PSSIBLE.
Besides, because you came home, I got to go to Houston to see MU SON get married.
Jim Jordan
Jim Jordan
April 25, 2014
Hi Bubba......
I have been planting flowers for the last few days. Here is an idea for you. Have the nursery put tags on the plants that say "This End Goes Up". I think I am planning some of the plants upside down. I simply cannot grow things like you always did. An old can, punch holes in the bottom, add some dirt and some of that "other stuff", stick in a flower and then...WOW.
I need to you watch over my shoulder today and tell me what to do. I so need you with me every day....and I so glad you are always there.
Your Little Brother
charlotte pietsch
April 23, 2014
Easter has come and gone and I'm reminded of the family Easter's spent together. I thought a lot over the weekend of Momma and Daddy and how we would spend Easter and the celebration and activities that we shared in. The Watters Road house and Easter egg hunts with the bluebonnets, family and friends, like Byron Hill and his precious parents. Easter Sunday lunch with Little Grandma's yellow layer cake with chocolate frosting. Dying Easter eggs and waiting for the bunny to show up and hide those eggs! So many happy memories. And even the Spring Branch house and watching my nieces hunt and enjoy the backyard that Daddy worked so hard in each day, every week, every season.
Charlotte
Margaret Jordan
April 7, 2014
Dear Bill,
Today is your father's birthday. I will always remember his big smile - yours was so like his - and his friendliness. The way he enjoyed listening to the A&M football games as you and I were doing our laundry at your parents' house on Saturdays when we were in college. Those were special times.
Love always,
Margaret
February 25, 2014
Happy Birthday daddy. I love you and continue to miss you each day.
Charlotte
Margaret Jordan
February 24, 2014
Dear Bill,
You would be 88 years old today. To celebrate this anniversary, I am wearing blue, your favorite color; and I am planning to bake and frost a chocolate cake, also your favorite. All day I will be remembering some of the happy times we had together. Not all of them, of course, because there are far too many to remember in one day. Happy birthday, darling.
Love always,
Margaret
Margaret Jordan
February 14, 2014
Dear Bill,
Yesterday, today, and tomorrow, you will always be my valentine.
Love always,
Margaret
Margaret Jordan
January 23, 2014
Dear Bill,
Today is your mother's birthday, and I never let it go by without paying tribute to her for being such a dear person and such a good mother-in-law. She loved her family so much, and was so willing to overlook all their failings. You inherited that characteristic from her. The best thing that ever happened to me was marrying you and thereby marrying into your family.
Love always,
Margaret
Margaret Jordan
December 24, 2013
Dear Bill,
It is Christmas Eve. The cards are mailed, copies of the Family Calendar have gone to your sister and brothers, and I am listening to Christmas music playing on a local radio station. Remember how we used to listen to recorded carols in a room illuminated only by the lights on the Christmas tree? I cherish the memories of all the Christmas Eves and Christmas Days we shared. Merry Christmas, darling.
Love always,
Margaret
Margaret Jordan
December 8, 2013
Dear Bill,
Yesterday was the anniversary of Pearl Harbor. Not much in the media about it now; it meant so much to our generation, and there are fewer of us every day. But today is an anniversary that is special to you and me, the 71st anniversary of the day we met in the hallway outside the library door at Edison High School in San Antonio. Fred put the flag out today for us.
Love always,
Margaret
Margaret Jordan
November 28, 2013
Dear Bill,
I seldom write little poems anymore, but these words just seemed to come to me today.
"My wedding ring is growing thin.
My hair is long past gray.
The many years that you've been gone,
I've missed you every day.
The holidays are not the same.
The stars have left the sky.
But one thing that remains the same...
I'll love you till I die."
Love always,
Margaret
November 18, 2013
Saw your memorial in Lockhart last Friday, the pennies I had left the last time were gone, guess those are the ones you gave to Uncle Jim on Saturday, this is really making me smile! I love that you leave proof of your visits! I so believe! I know others have a hard time believing, but not me; I know when I see a butterfly around me, in my backyard, or around one of my family members, it's you. Do you see the astonishment in Karlee's(your great granddaughter who is now 2 and a half, oh yeah, she is an Aries like me, so I know just how to handle that one!) eyes and reactions when you float by her, she wants to "catch" you. She calls you "pretty fly butterfly". Robert is ever on the lookout as he is building the deck in the backyard, I notice when he stops to take a rest break, he is scanning the backyard with his hawk vision to see you. It still brings us to tears when you come so close to us and land on one of us, we can not even say a word to each together, we just look into each others eyes, and we know what the other one is thinking: "there he is, he came for a visit, he loves what we are doing here!"
After I saw your memorial, I went downtown and walked the square around the beautiful courthouse, I did some shopping in a few of the stores and got some coffee and sat and watch the folks around the square. Enjoyed the ride through the country side and enjoyed a Friday morning in Lockhart thinking of you and momma and how happy you were in Lockhart.
Charlotte
Jim Jordan
November 15, 2013
Well, Hi VET....
The sweet letter from Charlotte reminded me to write you. Like Charlotte and your lovely wife, I thought of you on Veteran's Day, just never set down to write.
I worked in the yard last weekend. I always think of you when I "play in the dirt". I stuck from flowers in the ground.........I did not plant them, I just stuck them in the ground. You planted flowers and they did great. I could plant in the same place and they look bad. Do you think I might be planting the flowers upside down?
Charlotte and I share experiences with your pennies. I was all over the yard on Saturday, doing things. I crossed the driveway many times. One time, I found a penny. How many times did I walk right by it and never saw it? I didn't see it until you put it there.
Since I was too dirty to bring the penny in the house, I put it on the hood of my car. You know, to pick it up later.
Well, later I had to go to the nursery. About half way there, I remembered "Guess I lost that penny" I did not take the penny off the hood. I went in the nursery and bought what you spirit directed. When I got back to my car, there was the penny on the hood. Exactly where I left it. How did I drive five miles in traffic and the penny stayed in the exact place? Well, I picked it up and put in a special place.
That night, I suddenly felt something in the right rear pocket of my jeans. I never, ever put anything in that pocket. I reached in and there was a penny. How did I even feel it?
I know you are with me when I find the signs. Each of your family members have similar events.
Some day, you must tell me how you do that "thing" with the pennies. I can hear your little giggle right now.
How do you do these things?
My love to you and all you see today and forever. I miss you. I think of you often. Your family does too.
Thanks, Vet. And, thanks to Margaret for the part she played in the war effort while you were fighting for our freedom.
Your Little Brother, Jim
November 13, 2013
Happy Veterans' Day Daddy.
Today is Wednesday, Veterans Day was Monday and I missed posting this on the exact day. This weekend was the veterans day car show in downtown Bastrop, I missed it this year, but my friend who attended told me that they had the Veterans Wall up, and she saw your picture on it. I will go on Friday to Lockhart to see your memorial and leave 6 pennies on the wall for you, one penny from each Pietsch, and a penny from Momma. Sometimes when I visit the pennies are still there on top of the wall from my last visit, sometimes they are gone. I leave them for you daddy since you leave me so many pennies! When I visit and the pennies are gone, I like to think you reached down and got them! Guess you have some change tinkling around in your pockets. Maybe instead of "hearing the rain", what I'm hearing is the pennies in your pockets!
If you were here, you would maybe agree...you were like that, I could say something so odd, or strange, but you would ponder the possibility. I love that about you; you always thought anything you set your mind to do was possible, and that you should always try your best.
Happy Veterans Day, you must of thought we could win the war, and yall did win, you helped win it for each of us, thanks Daddy,I love you.
Charlotte
Margaret Jordan
November 10, 2013
Dear Bill,
I made a chocolate cake today in honor of you and the veterans of all our wars. Chocolate was always your favorite. I wish you were still here to share it.
Love always,
Margaret
Charlotte Pietsch
October 17, 2013
Thinking of you today, and yes, I heard you in my ear, and yes, it's a beautiful day to go for a drive to the nursery in Shiner , purchase mums, then home to get our hands in the dirt. I miss sitting next to you in the yellow windyhill rocking chairs, eating Fritos and drinking Coke's, yeah, the little glass bottles of Coke that you liked so much.
I will be planting mums this weekend and taking that fall county road drive, may even end up out on Lavaca County. Maybe even up on a high hill looking down over pastures dotted with round hay bales, and cows laying down enjoying the breeze and sunshine. What amazing quite moments and views I had with you; you taught me that, to just sit quietly and take in all the beauty that my eyes could see, and let that become apart of my spirit.
I love you and no, it still does not get any easier here without you. Please visit me this weekend, I will watch for your beautiful butterfly wings.
Charlotte
Jim Jordan
October 16, 2013
I thought of you today.
Jim Jordan
September 30, 2013
Hi Big Brother
Thought of you again. You have really been on my mind.
Reminder-------EVERYONE loves you so. We all miss you.
Jim Jordan
September 29, 2013
Jan and I went to State Fair on Friday.
Saw an American Flag.
Made me think of you and how much you love America, the flag and your family. Your sweet wife is still very much in LOVE with you.
Thanks for being my Big Brother and serving our country. GO VET.
Your Little Brother
charlotte pietcsh
September 11, 2013
Happy Anniversary Momma and Daddy,
I love you both so very much and am so very happy I had a great example of how a marriage should work between two people. Thank you both for sharing your lives and your love with me.
Charlotte
September 11, 2013
September 11, 2013
This day will always belong to you and Margaret Exley Jordan. The start of the Great Generation.
You brought such JOY to Margaret. Her eyes lit up on the very mention of your name. Others should be so fortunate to have such a partner.
Where there was sadness in the world, you brought happiness. Where there was sorrow, you brought joy. When others needed an example, you lead the way.
You had such a magic touch. You could take a discarded kitchen pot and use it to plant flowers. You could make anything grow. By your example of caring for your life partner, you showed others that a good dose of LOVE can do wonders.
Thank you for putting your love into America and for giving such love to Margaret.
Happy Anniversary.
As I recall, it all started with "You must be Margaret Exley. I am Billy Jordan". And, from that grew..........
Your Little Brother,
Jim
Margaret Jordan
September 11, 2013
Dear Bill,
Today is our day, our 65th wedding anniversary.
So many things have happened this year. Changes (not for the better) in the health of family members and friends. Losses: the wig shop where we bought my "Hawaiian hair" (in case you couldn't resist the impulse to splash the Pacific Ocean all over me!); Dr. Clarke, who took care of Hans and all our other pets for so many years; Hans himself; the staghorn fern that won a blue ribbon for you at the Men's Garden Club show at the Mall; even the Mr. Coffee that brewed our coffee for so many years. The Mr. Coffee can be replaced, but the other losses are only memories now.
What will never change, will never be lost, are my memories of the love we shared, the happy times we had together. Happy anniversary, my darling.
Love always,
Margaret
Margaret Jordan
July 4, 2013
Dear Bill,
We are flying the flag today for you and for all the others who have loved our nation and fought for our freedom. For those who went before us, for those of our generation, and for those who will come after us. All of your life, no matter what, you were proud to be an American.
Love always,
Margaret
July 4, 2013
Millions of men and women made this day possible for me......FOURTH OF JULY. You were only one of these; but, you were one. YOU answered the call of your country and ready to do whatever task you were called upon to maintain our freedom.
I rested well last night, with no fear of the secret police coming in. I woke this morning to food and fresh water. So many things we take for granted; but, made possible by the greatest generation ever.
You were only one. But, you were one. You could not do everything. But, you could do something. Thank you for your service to our country and the freedom and all we enjoy.
Your Little Brother,
Jim
June 17, 2013
Happy Fathers Day Daddy,
Thank you for your visits over the weekend. I thought of you again this morning while I had coffee on the deck, the crepe myrtles are all close to being in full bloom. The first time I saw the house, when it was still for sale, I knew I wanted it, becasue of the crepe myrtles along the north side by the railroad tracks. I also knew that you would of loved them. I planted a pink hybiscus yesteday in your honor, it has one bloom on it and it opened yesterday afternoon.
I love you.
Charlotte
Margaret Jordan
June 16, 2013
Dear Bill,
Father's Day again, and I am working out a design for another quilt from your shirts that will help keep memories of you fresh in the children's minds. As I plan the patches and blocks of the quilt, I am reminded over and over again of all the fun we had together, of all the camping, the trips, the good times. They may remember them differently, of course; but to me, the quilt will be a fabric representation of great memories! Happy Father's Day, darling.
Love always,
Margaret
June 4, 2013
Daddy,
Thank you for your visit on Sunday in the backyard. Did you see your great grand daughters playing in the swimming pool, aren't they the greatest? Robert and I spent the day building the new deck that sit's under the big pecan tree, and playing with the granddaughters, we grilled hotdogs and made a bon fire and when it got dark we roasted marshmellows and chased thru the yard catching fire flies, we know you would love sitting on that deck and looking into the backyard and watching the day go by, the sunset and the evening sky bloom into a star filled night.So many butterflies that visit us each weekend, we know it is you. I miss you so much, it still hurts as much as it did when you left us. I love you.
Charlotte
Margaret Jordan
June 2, 2013
Dear Bill,
Today you have been gone from us for six years. I miss you every day and will as long as I live. I have so many memories of all the happy years we had together, and those memories comfort me now.
Love always,
Margaret
Margaret Jordan
May 28, 2013
Dear Bill,
All of us remembered you yesterday for your patriotism and your love for your country. The days when you were in the Navy seem a long time ago to the present generation, but to me it has been such a little while.
Love always,
Margaret
Jim Jordan
May 26, 2013
Hi Big Brother
THANKS FOR YOUR SERVICE, VET. I will sleep good tonight.
Memorial Day, 2013
Margaret Jordan
March 25, 2013
Dear Bill,
The "yesterday, today, and tomorrow" is blooming now, and last week I saw a yellow butterfly in the yard. I know you are remembering, too.
Love always,
Margaret
February 25, 2013
Happy Birthday Daddy, I still miss you more than ever...
Charlotte
Margaret Jordan
February 24, 2013
Dear Bill,
Today is your 87th birthday. I made the Windy Hill Breakfast Rolls this morning to celebrate the day. Happy Birthday, my darling.
Love always,
MKargaret
Jm Jordan
February 24, 2013
Hi Big Brother........
HAPPY BIRTHDAY
Thank you for the wonderful memories. Thank you for being my brother. When Daddy got so sick, you took his place,. I needed someone to look to for advice. You were always there for me.
You touched so many people in your life. We are all better people hecause of you
THANK YOU for all you hae been in my life. Please look after your Darling Wife. Maybe a butterfly to come into her view? Just one of those things you do that makes you giggle. You always have that funny little giggle. Oh my.
And, HAPPY BIRTHDAY,
Margaret Jordan
February 21, 2013
Dear Bill,
Today it is four years since we held your memorial service and laid your ashes to rest at Woodlawn. A long journey for you from Goliad to Woodlawn. That journey encompassed Hawaii in the Pacific Ocean, Alaska, Canada, the North Atlantic, Florida, and even across the border into Mexico, and as many states in the United States as possible. I thank God every day for the privilege I had of sharing part of that journey with you.
Love always,
Margaret
Margaret Jordan
February 14, 2013
Dear Bill,
From the butterflies in the yard, and all the other signs I have seen, I know you are remembering also.
Happy Valentine's Day, darling.
Love always,
Margaret
January 23, 2013
Dear Bill,
Today is your mother's birthday, and I can't let it go by without telling you something you already know - that she was a wonderful woman who loved her family without any reservations, no matter what they did. You always felt that way about family, too, just as David said at your memorial service. I am so fortunate to be part of your family.
Love always,
Margaret
Margaret Jordan
December 8, 2012
Dear Bill,
Sixty years have gone by since we met in the hallway outside the library at Edison High School in San Antonio. As we dressed for school that morning, did we have any idea that we would meet our future that day? Probably not. But the most wonderful things can grow from tiny beginnings, and our happy years together started from that "year and a day after Pearl Harbor" when you came up to me in the hallway and said, "You must be Margaret Exley. I'm Billy Jordan."
This morning I saw a yellow butterfly in the backyard. You must be remembering also. Happy anniversary of the day we met.
Love always,
Margaret
Mark Dilley
November 11, 2012
Its veterans day, and we want to remember, honor and thank you dad. Not just because you are our father and a veteran, but you and so many others through your service in US armed forces allow us to have the freedoms that we sometimes take for granted. We all need to remember just how much it took and continues to take just to keep those freedoms. So thanks to all our veterans and especially you Dad. Love Mark and Deb
Jim Jordan
November 11, 2012
Veteran's Day, 2012
Sad that so many are no longer with us.
NO
SAD would be if none of them had ever served.
THANK YOU, VET
Your Little Brother
September 12, 2012
Happy Anniversary Momma and Daddy, I love you both so very much.
Charlotte
Margaret Jordan
September 11, 2012
Dear Bill,
Today is the 64th anniversary of our wedding. Yesterday I kept remembering all the things that happened the day before our wedding. Going to the courthouse for the license. Getting lost on the way to the bakery to pick up the cake. The bakery was located at a five-way intersection, and we took a wrong turn. Then the car got stuck in a ditch, and two good Samaritans came by and lifted it out for us. We got to the bakery with ten minutes to spare. The minister was sick and couldn't attend the rehearsal, so we didn't get to hear ahead of time what we would be promising each other. (That always allowed us to say, "Oh, that was in the fine print of the contract.") On that day 64 years ago, we promised, "For richer, for poorer, for better, for worse, so long as we both shall live." The most important promise we ever made. Happy anniversary, darling.
Love always,
Margaret
Michael Jordan
September 11, 2012
Happy Anniversary Dad...For most a sad day, but for our family 9-11-1948 is a wonderfull day.
Margaret Jordan
August 31, 2012
Dear Bill,
August is almost over. This is one of our favorite months of the year. It was in August of 1946 that you asked me to marry you, and it was in August of 1948 that we set our wedding date. The stars were brighter than ever that month, and we saw many shooting stars the night we sat in your little Ford and made plans for our future. The oilcloth we bought for our first tablecloth was yellow with a pattern of silver stars. I read recently that August is known for its meteor showers, but we thought those stars were just for us. I still believe they were!
Love always,
Margaret
Margaret Jordan
July 4, 2012
Dear Bill,
Independence Day - July Fourth - one of your favorite holidays. Fred put the flag out early this morning, as you always did. So many good memories of past celebrations with you.
Love always,
Margaret
charlotte pietsch
June 4, 2012
Lots of butterflies in the backyard this weekend,Robert sunk a pole in my native flowerbed so that I can make a "blue bottle tree", when he stepped away from sinking the pole in concrete a big orange butterfly landed on the pole..we knew you were all around us as we worked in the yard.... thanks for your visits this weekend, Robert & I always know when you are around. I still miss you...
Charlotte
Margaret Jordan
June 2, 2012
Dear Bill,
Today is June 2nd, a Saturday, and you have been gone for five years. A long time, but it has gone by so fast. Everything here still reminds me of you.
I just listened again to George Burns singing "I Wish I Was Eighteen Again" at Nashville. The summer I was eighteen was the summer you asked me to marry you. The only way I would want to be eighteen again would be if I could live all the years over once more with you. But there is Eternity ahead for us, and yesterday I saw a yellow butterfly.
Love always,
Margaret
Jim Jordan
May 28, 2012
Stand Fast Sailor and be recognized. On this Memorial Day your family and a grateful Nation recognize you for your sevice during World War II.
Each member of the military was assigned a weapon to use during the War. For some it was a wench to work on machinery. Some manned a typewriter. Some held a Soup Spoon. Some loaded parachutes. Some were asked to use their strong backs to load ships. No matter the assignment and the assigned weapon, everyone had a place. The war was won by The Greatest Generation working as one.
Then, the Greastest Generation came home and built a great land.
Job well done, Seaman's Cook Second Class Jordan. Well done. Rest in Peace.
Your little brother, a proud American Citizen.
Margaret Jordan
May 13, 2012
Dear Bill,
Today we remembered your mother and mine with food. For breakfast we had cinnamon rolls for my mother, and dessert at supper was yellow cake with chocolate icing for your mother. I am sorry to say none of it was homemade from scratch - the cinnamon rolls came in a can, the cake was from a mix, and the icing was ready-to-use from a can - but we talked about both of the women who made your childhood and mine so memorable with many things besides their cooking. What wonderful mothers we had!
Love always,
Margaret
Jim Jordan
May 3, 2012
For the WWII generation, this will bring back memories. For you younger folks, it's a bit of trivia that is a part of our American history. Anyone born in 1913 to about 1950, is familiar with Kilroy. We didn't know why, but we had lapel pins with his nose hanging over the label and the top of his face above his nose with his hands hanging over the label. No one knew why he was so well known, but we all joined in!
So who the heck was Kilroy?
In 1946 the American Transit Association, through its radio program, "Speak to America ," sponsored a nationwide contest to find the real Kilroy, offering a prize of a real trolley car to the person who could prove himself to be the genuine article. Almost 40 men stepped forward to make that claim, but only James Kilroy from Halifax , Massachusetts , had evidence of his identity.
Kilroy was a 46-year old shipyard worker during the war who worked as a checker at the Fore River Shipyard in Quincy . His job was to go around and check on the number of rivets completed. Riveters were on piecework and got paid by the rivet. He would count a block of rivets and put a check mark in semi-waxed lumber chalk, so the rivets wouldn't be counted twice. When Kilroy went off duty, the riveters would erase the mark. Later on, an off-shift inspector would come through and count the rivets a second time, resulting in double pay for the riveters.
One day Kilroy's boss called him into his office. The foreman was upset about all the wages being paid to riveters, and asked him to investigate. It was then he realized what had been going on. The tight spaces he had to crawl in to check the rivets didn't lend themselves to lugging around a paint can and brush, so Kilroy decided to stick with the waxy chalk. He continued to put his checkmark on each job he inspected, but added KILROY WAS HERE in king-sized letters next to the check, and eventually added the sketch of the chap with the long nose peering over the fence and that became part of the Kilroy message. Once he did that, the riveters stopped trying to wipe away his marks. Ordinarily the rivets and chalk marks would have been covered up with paint. With the war on, however, ships were leaving the Quincy Yard so fast that there wasn't time to paint them. As a result, Kilroy's inspection "trademark" was seen by thousands of servicemen who boarded the troopships the yard produced.
His message apparently rang a bell with the servicemen, because they picked it up and spread it all over Europe and the South Pacific. Before war's end, "Kilroy" had been here, there, and everywhere on the long hauls to Berlin and Tokyo . To the troops outbound in those ships, however, he was a complete mystery; all they knew for sure was that someone named Kilroy had "been there first." As a joke, U.S. servicemen began placing the graffiti wherever they landed, claiming it was already there when they arrived.
Kilroy became the U.S. super-GI who had always "already been" wherever GIs went. It became a challenge to place the logo in the most unlikely places imaginable (it is said to be atop Mt. Everest , the Statue of Liberty , the underside of l'Arc De Triomphe, and even scrawled in the dust on the moon.
As the war went on, the legend grew. Underwater demolition teams routinely sneaked ashore on Japanese-held islands in the Pacific to map the terrain for coming invasions by U.S. troops (and thus, presumably, were the first GI's there). On one occasion, however, they reported seeing enemy troops painting over the Kilroy logo!
In 1945, an outhouse was built for the exclusive use of Roosevelt, Stalin, and Churchill at the Potsdam conference. Its' first occupant was Stalin, who emerged and asked his aide (in Russian), "Who is Kilroy?"
To help prove his authenticity in 1946, James Kilroy brought along officials from the shipyard and some of the riveters. He won the trolley car, which he gave to his nine children as a Christmas gift and set it up as a playhouse in the Kilroy front yard in Halifax , Massachusetts ..
My Brother THE VET probably saw Kilroy was here while on his Boat.
Jim Jordan
May 3, 2012
Heard a story today that made me think of you.
A daughter called her Dad (retired). He was in a hurry when he answered the phone. "Can't talk now" and hung up. Called back...same thing; but more abrupt.
Many thoughts raced through daughter's mind as she madly drove to be with Dad. "Whatever is the major problem"? she thought. "This sounds serious".
Upon arrival, she noticed a plumber's repair truck.
Maybe a gas leak? Maybe the hot water heater exploded? Maybe a huge water leak?
Nope, plumber just replacing a washer in a leaking facuet. Dad was having to watch.
Sounds just like you !!!!!!!
You funny guy.
Your little brother.
charlotte pietsch
April 26, 2012
i miss you...
Jim Jordan
April 5, 2012
Hi Vet...
I just read a notice from Margret about why you cleaned out the culverts. That comment so describes you. "Because it needed to be done". Not looking for Thanks or Praise. It just needed to be done and you took care of it.
You joined America's fight in World War II because "it needed to be done". That is just one reason why I am proud of YOU.
Your Little Brother
Margaret Jordan
April 4, 2012
Dear Bill,
Crews from the city are digging out the ditches here in our subdivision and will be installing new driveway culverts. Lots of activity on our street today! You would so much enjoy being a "sidewalk superintendent" today. I remember how you used to put on rubber boots and clean out some of the culverts around us after a heavy rain; and when some of the neighbors asked you why you bothered to do it, you replied, "Because it needs to be done." Since you can't be a sidewalk superintendent anymore, Hans stands at the back gate and barks; and I look out the window and remember.
Love always,
Margaret
Mark Dilley
February 25, 2012
Happy birthday Dad! Although you've been gone almost 5 years, we miss you as if it was yesterday. Your memory echoes in our hearts and minds everyday. We love you so much, Mark and Deb
Margaret Jordan
February 24, 2012
Dear Bill,
You were born in Goliad 86 years ago today. Your Grandpa Jordan was so proud of having a grandson that he wanted Grandma Jordan to go to Goliad to help. She said she would rather be at a turkey dinner, but he sent her off on the bus anyway. That is the story your mother told me, and we always thought you were better than any turkey dinner.
Happy birthday, darling.
Love always,
Margaret
Margaret Jordan
February 14, 2012
Dear Bill,
A long time ago I wrote a poem and called it REFLECTIONS ON OUR FORTY-THIRD VALENTINE'S DAY TOGETHER. I want to repeat it for you here.
Inside I am still the person I have always been...
But now when I look into the mirror, I see my mother's face.
Or if I arranged my hair differently, my grandmother's face.
Do you see their faces when you look at me?
Or do you see me, as I have always been?
Somehow, I believe you still see me.
Because, when I look at you now...
I see you coming to me,
Walking fast with your own special stride,
Walking down the street in the summer sunshine
To my parents' house
And to me.
So when I look at you now...
I am still and always the girl
Who waited there in the summer sunshine
Loving you.
You are always my Valentine, Bill.
Love always,
Margaret
Margaret Jordan
January 23, 2012
Dear Bill,
Today is your mother's birthday. One of my very favorite memories of her is Sunday, September 12th, the day after our wedding. We stopped in Lockhart on our way to San Marcos, and she came to meet us with a big smile. Ignoring you, she hugged me and asked, "How is the bride?" I knew at that moment that I was going to love having her for my mother-in-law and being a member of your family.
Love always,
Margaret
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