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Margaret Louise Jordan, 89, widow of Horace P. Jordan, died Thursday, December 25, 2015. Born in Ft. Mitchel, VA she has been a Hampton resident since 1952, where she was a member of Grace Fellowship Church for more than 40 years. Meg, as she was affectionately known, impacted a great many people. From being personally responsible for leading the majority of her family to Christ to providing child care for the families of over 50 children, the influence of her loving everyday witness may be inestimable.

Mrs. Jordan is survived by her daughter, Betty Kincaid and her husband Jim; son, Mark Lee Jordan and his wife Terri; sister, Jeanette McWilliams and her husband Lauren; brother, Ben Lipscomb and his wife Devata; grandchildren, Tammy Lane, Jessica Jordan Templeton and Victoria Jordan; and great-grandson, Matthew Bowen.

The family will receive friends from 1-2:00 pm Wednesday at R. Hayden Smith Funeral Home in downtown Hampton. Immediately following at 2:00, a funeral service will be conducted in the funeral home chapel by Pastors Bill Oden and Dan Green. Interment will follow at Parklawn Memorial Park.

The family wishes any memorial donations to be made to CBN, www.cbn.com.

Arrangements are by R. Hayden Smith Funeral Home, 747-723-3191.

Anyone who knew Margaret knew of her love of Christ, her family, the many children she cared for and gardening. Raised on a farm in the middle of Virginia, Meg invested her lifetime of experience in growing things toward nourishing others, pouring her love into the lives of a great many families, friends and children over the course of her lifetime. In honor of that lifetime of loving care, her family would like to share this analogy in poetic form. May we all learn to share the love of Christ as she did to all we meet.

The Garden

Dedicated to Margaret L. Jordan on February 17, 2006

These plots of ground that we sow in this life

Some raise joy and happiness, others sorrow and strife

Some gardens are isolated, restricted and small

While others sow far and wide with plants quite tall

The limited gardeners plant on their own soil

Reducing their work and limiting the toil

Many a fine harvest it is that they reap

With their own produce and products to keep

But the Master's gardeners are more adventurous and bold

They plant wherever they can for a harvest of souls

Thru industrious labor and vigilant duty

Their wide spread gardens are a wonder of beauty

For they know no bounds to the soil that they till

No limits are kept on the young plants they fill

With love, tender care and gentleness giving

They raise a diverse crop to preach to the living

Their produce may blight or be damaged by vandals

But the hearts have been sealed by that carpenter in sandals

They have been fertilized with His words from their earliest days

Weeded of sin, warmed by His love and guarded by praise

Many of the plantings started by younger gardeners

Turned over to your care to turn into flowers

Some sorely neglected of the Master's warm Son

While others were well sown, watered, and begun

But with each small planting you've given your life

While still struggling yourself to be a mother and wife

You invested your love, prayers, time and your tears

To bring many a young plant to it's mature years

What countless gardens are now a result your growing

Where the seeds of your planting are constantly showing

In the thousands of lives a daily harvest they bring

An ever growing bumper crop to your Master and King

By Mark L. Jordan for Mom on her eightieth birthday