Margaret V. Jordan

Margaret Virginia Jordan was born August 24, 1919, to Benjamin and Mabel Murphy Heald in Healdton Oklahoma and was welcomed home by her older brothers Ben and Charles.  Margaret was 100 years old when she passed away on December 17, 2019, in Springfield, Colorado.

Margaret began her schooling in Healdton, OK in 1925 and attended numerous schools in Texas and Oklahoma before moving to Colorado in 1929 where she attended school in Rocky Ford, the Higbee Valley, and La Junta before graduating from Kim High School in 1937.

Margaret met Lawrence Jordan in 1936 and they were married on November 1, 1937, in Springfield.  They lived at the homestead northeast of Kim.  They moved to Pritchett in 1957 and most of their years were spent with the Jordan Seed Company, harvesting and selling Buffalo grass seed.  Lawrence and Margaret moved to Springfield Colorado in 1978.  In 1981 they purchased and ran the Lazy U Hotel in Springfield for five years.

A highlight of Margaret’s life was when she became an “emergency” teacher in 1944.  She taught at Long Ridge School and briefly at Andrix School for five years.   Her students became her lifelong family and she never lost touch with them.

In 1947 Margaret was diagnosed with Myasthenia Gravis which is a rare muscle disorder which most noticeably caused drooping eyelids, double vision, and weakened muscles.  She was instrumental in starting the Southern Colorado Chapter of the Myasthenia Gravis Foundation to help educate patients about the disease.  She wrote many letters and shared support to others who were afflicted by MG.

After Lawrence passed away in 2005, Margaret lived at home where she was an avid reader and wrote in her journals daily.  In 2013 she moved to the Long Term Care Unit in Springfield where she made many friends and resided there until her death.

Margaret was preceded in death by both her parents, Ben and Mabel Heald, her husband Lawrence, her brother Ben and wife Martha Heald, brother Charles Heald, in-laws Boyd and Dorothy Rose, and nephew Albert and wife Nancy Jo Rose, and great-nephew Lane Frost.

She is survived by her sister-in-law Blanche Heald of Bloomfield NM,  her nieces and nephews, William Heald of Dallas, TX, Robert and Cyndy Heald of Lubbock, TX, Gary and Serena Holder of Mesa, AZ, Clyde and Elsie Frost of Lane, OK, Gary and Margaret Rose of Alberta, Canada, numerous great-nieces, and nephews, including Springfield, CO residents Todd and Wray Jean Rose and Barry and Leslie Morris. She is also survived by her former students, her LTC family, and many friends.

Graveside funeral services will be held Saturday, December 21, 1:00 p.m. at the Springfield Cemetery. A viewing will be prior to the service from 11:30-12:30 at Maltbie Funeral Services.

Memorial contributions in Margaret’s memory are suggested to go to the SECHD Long Term Care Center, 373 E. 10 ^th Ave. ,  Springfield, CO 81073.