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Nancy Lee
Coffey Jordan
Apr 11, 1924 — Mar 7, 2018
Nancy Lee (Coffey) Jordan, 93, of Richmond, Texas passed away on Wednesday, March 7, 2018. She was born in Clarksville, Texas on April 11, 1924. She was raised in Rockett and Ferris, TX with two older sisters and one younger brother.
While in high school, she enjoyed playing basketball. While in her thirties, she bowled with a team, coached by her husband, Travis Cowen. She enjoyed watching football, watching basketball and rooting for the Houston Rockets.
She enjoyed raising her son and she taught him to be a fine man. She was a long-time member of The United Methodist Church. Her career in Bookkeeping spanned decades. She worked many years at Stubbs Overbeck & Associates and Kathey Payne Interiors.
She was a wonderful cook. Her Thanksgiving and Christmas parties are quite memorable. She enjoyed traveling and lived in Japan, W. Virginia, Louisiana, Alaska and several areas of Texas with her former husband, Laurence (Larry) Rupert Jordan of League City, TX. She enjoyed visiting New York City and Acapulco, Mexico.
Nancy enjoyed singing and making friends while she lived at Cambridge Health and Rehabilitation Center in Richmond, TX for the past three years. Most of all, she enjoyed being with her family.
She was preceded in death by her father Walter Deck Coffey of Rockett, TX; her mother Winnie Bell (Pierce) Coffey of Ferris, TX; her brother Bobby Lynn Coffey of Dallas, TX; her first husband Travis Alexander Cowen of Freeport, TX; brother-in-law Thomas (Tom) Pressly of Irving, TX and nephew Thomas (Tommy) Lynn Pressly of Highland Village, TX.
Nancy is survived by her son Kyle Ray Cowen and daughter-in-law Beverly Cowen of Richmond, TX; sisters Marjorie Coffey (98) of Houston, TX and Juanita (Coffey) Pressly (96) of Plano, TX; niece Nancy Lee (Cowen) Matthews and her husband Tony Matthews of Houston; niece Diane (Coffey) Dean her husband Sid Dean of Denton, TX, their son Marshall Dean and his immediate family of Austin, TX, and their daughter Lindsey Dean of College Station, TX; nephew Greg Pressly and his wife Joy Pressly of Plano, TX, their daughters Jenay, Julia, and Jill Pressly, and their son Grant Pressly; great-nephew Ryan Pressly of Minneapolis, MN and his mother Jan Pressly of Highland Village, TX; close friends Kathey King of The Woodlands, TX and Becky Harmon of Hot Springs, AR, and other friends and caregivers whose lives she blessed with her joyful spirit.
Funeral services for Nancy Jordan are set for 10AM Wednesday, March 21, 2018 at Garmany & Carden Funeral Directors Chapel, 1201 Fourth Street, Rosenberg, TX. A time of visitation will precede the service from 9 - 10AM. The services will be officiated by Dr. John Reid of First Baptist Church Rosenberg. Burial will follow at 2PM that afternoon at Forest Park Lawndale Cemetery, 6900 Lawndale Street, Houston, TX 77023. She will be buried next to Travis Cowen.
Messages of condolence may be written for the family at
www.garmanycarden.com
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Services are under the direction of Garmany & Carden Funeral Directors, 1201 Fourth Street, Rosenberg, TX 77471 (281)342-4671.
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