"After a brief illness, on Dec. 20, 2024, 'Gentle Giant Genius from Alaska," an appellation his co-workers and friends used for him, Jordan Jones abandoned his physical garment and his soul winged its way to the celestial abode," his family wrote.
Jordan was born on Feb. 21, 1982, in Wrangell. He was the youngest son of Tod and Betsy Jones. He attended Wrangell elementary and middle schools, then moved with his parents to Haifa, Israel, where they were volunteers at the Baha'i World Center.
He attended the international school in Tel Aviv, then returned to Seward, Alaska, where he lived with his swimming coach and became an excellent swimmer. His senior year he attended and graduated from Beaverton High School in Oregon.
With very little formal training in computers, Jordan excelled and was a self-taught programmer, so much so that his employer acknowledged he was one of a very few in the San Francisco Bay area with the skills he possessed. Jordan lived, worked and studied with people of numerous backgrounds, ethnicities and faiths and considered each and every one of them friends. "Generous to a fault he devoted his life and any of his corporal possessions to anyone he felt needed them," his family wrote.
Jordan is survived by his parents Tod and Betsy Jones, of Astoria, Oregon; older brothers Daniel in San Diego, California, and Chad in Tucson, Arizona; older sisters, Kim in Longview, Washington, and Dr. Anisa Richardson in Astoria, Oregon.
A graveside service will be held Jan. 8 at the Belmont Memorial Cemetery in Fresno, California.
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