E. Elizabeth G. Jordain

February 21, 2022

E. Elizabeth G. (Betty) Jordain passed away Monday, February 21, 2022, at age 95, in Teaneck, NJ. She was born July 11, 1926, in Barcelona, Spain, to the late Fontaine Maury and Eleanor Edith (Warner) Gillespie. She was educated at Syracuse University, obtaining a BA in Mathematics in 1948. She married the late Philip B. Jordain shortly after and bore him five children (the last, Andrew Michael, survived birth by only one day). When not being a homemaker and caregiver to her four remaining children, she was active in many civic organizations such as the Fresh Air Fund and Visiting Homemaker Home Health Aid Service, and in St Mark's Episcopal Church in Teaneck, serving as Sunday school teacher, editor of the parish newsletter, licensed lay reader, chalice bearer and Eucharistic lay reader. She was also a founding member of the Ecumenical Bible Study committee. Besides her parents, husband, and fifth child, she is also preceded in death by an older brother Maury Warner, and her youngest daughter Patricia Ann. She is survived by her remaining three children, Sheila Edith (John) Dickson, John Howard Jordain, and Philip Maury (Judy) Jordain; and her three grandchildren Naomi (John) Walls, Tim Jordain, and Andrew Dickson, who between them produced three great-grandchildren that she cherished. Family and friends are invited to visit at 10 AM with a funeral service to follow at 11AM at Volk Leber Funeral Home, 789 Teaneck Rd., Teaneck, NJ on Saturday, April 2, 2022. Interment to follow at Cedar Lawn Cemetery, Paterson, NJ where Betty's remains will be placed with her father's. Following the interment there will be a repast at St. Mark's Episcopal Church parish hall, 118 Chadwick Rd., Teaneck, NJ. at 2:30PM. Betty would welcome donations made in her memory to St. Mark's Church; the Teaneck Volunteer Ambulance Corps; Syracuse University; or any environmentalist advocacy group such as the Sierra Club or World Wildlife Fund.