Christine Bennett Jordan

Christine Bennett Jordan, known as Chris to family and friends, age 69, of Stockbridge, Georgia, passed away on Thursday, May 22, 2025 surrounded by family at home after a courageous battle with pancreatic cancer. She was born on December 30, 1955 in Bregenz, Austria to the late Reddin Joseph and Anna Katharina Bennett. Born to an American father and an Austrian mother, Chris grew up in Austria, Germany, Italy, Texas, and Florida before her family settled in Decatur, Georgia where she graduated from Towers High School.
Through a series of serendipitous events, Chris met her husband, Stan, on her seventeenth birthday; they began dating and were married the next year. They didn't have much besides the Lord and each other during those first few years, but together they built a beautiful and purposeful life. In raising their three children, they modeled that nothing is more important than following Jesus wherever and however He leads. Over the years, they lived and served in churches from Waco, Aquilla, and La Porte, Texas to Decatur, Atlanta, and finally Stockbridge, Georgia. Through her Christlike love, gentleness, and selflessness, Chris made an indelible impression on those around her in each of the places they served. On August 18, 2024, Chris and Stan celebrated their 50th wedding anniversary, a fitting opportunity to reflect on all the blessings of their life together and the faithfulness of the Lord throughout the challenges and victories of the last fifty years.
To her children, Chris was simply, Mom. It is impossible to put into words how much she meant to each of them and to their spouses. At family gatherings, Chris was always the last one to sit down and eat as she always made sure everyone else was taken care of first. She demonstrated how much she loved her family by always stocking the pantry with their favorite snacks and sweets and the freezer with their favorite flavors of Blue Bell. They will miss visiting Cades Cove with her, making Austrian foods like spätzle and knödels, calling her after work or video chatting from afar, and her love of Krispy Kreme doughnuts and anything chocolate.
Known as NeeNee, Gran, and Darlin' to her grandkids, she held a special place in each of their hearts and they in hers. They will miss her sourdough bread, baking cookies and making s'mores with her, playing games with her, the big breakfasts she would make for them when they visited, the stories she would tell them about their parents as kids, and the owl-eye face she would make when they said goodbye. "I love you to the moon and back," she told them often, ending every call or visit with one more assurance. Over the last few months, as she grew weaker and Heaven grew closer, that familiar and comforting reminder was replaced with, "I love you to Heaven and back!" Nothing has ever been truer.
Servant-hearted and compassionate, Chris gave of herself with a sacrificial love. She touched countless lives during her more than five decades as a pastor's wife, pouring her time and energy into her church family. Serving in many roles over the years, she taught children's Sunday school classes, summer VBS, women's connection groups, and served on women's ministry teams. As a teacher, she would study her Bible, meditating on the weekly lesson for hours while sitting at her kitchen table. Always the encourager, she made countless phone calls and texts from that table to comfort and edify friends and church family members, reminding each of them she was praying for them. She continued making those calls and sending those texts well after she was homebound until just weeks before Jesus carried her home. She greatly missed being actively involved in church life over the last two years; now, she will be greatly missed by her church family at North Henry Baptist Church.
Chris' memory and legacy will live on through everyone she touched, but especially through her loving and devoted husband of 50 years, Stan Jordan; her children and their spouses, Lori and Jeff Loomis, Dixie and Stacy White, and John and Gao Foua Jordan; her grandchildren, Kade and Avenly Loomis, Robert, Caitlin, Jacob, and Joshua White, and Mercy, Taylor, and Maila Jordan; her sisters Kathy (and Sylvester) Bartos, and Carole (and Todd) Clifton; nephews and nieces, Sylvester and Casey Bartos, and Cody, Tabitha, and Tia Clifton, and extended family members.
We love you to Heaven and back, Mom! We are heartbroken you had to leave us so early, but so thankful to have been blessed to have you as our mom. We miss you, but are so thankful you're healed, whole, and no longer suffering. We promise to take care of Dad (as much as he'll let us!) and each other and to do our best to model servant hearted, Christlike love to our kids and those around us like you taught us. We love you to Heaven and back and look forward to the day we'll all be together again.
A service to thank the Lord for Chris' life will be held on Tuesday, May 27, 2025 at 11:00AM at North Henry Baptist Church in Stockbridge, Georgia. The family will receive friends Monday, May 26, 2025, from 4:00PM until 6:00PM at Cannon Cleveland Funeral Directors in McDonough, Georgia and on Tuesday, May 27, 2025 at 10:00AM at North Henry Baptist Church. In lieu of flowers or planting a tree, the family asks that memorial contributions be donated in Chris' memory to the mission work of her son, John, in Aliquippa, Pennsylvania or her daughter, Lori, in Japan. Those donations can be made to North Henry Baptist Church and designated for either Aliquippa or Japan. Those who wish may sign the online guest registry at www.canonclevelandfunerals.com. Cannon Cleveland Funeral Directors, 770-914-1414.