Oscar Earl Jordan

Oscar Earl Jordan was born at home in the Beech Creek Community of Tyler County on July 15th, 1929, to parents Benjamin Oscar and Addie Amner Ratcliff Jordan.  He was the fourth of seven children and grew up in a home of love, faith and hard work.  He went to school through the eighth grade at Midway School in the Beech Creek Community.  He attended high school at Spurger and graduated in 1946 at age sixteen.   Immediately upon graduating from high school, he attended Sam Houston State Teacher’s College.  There, while attending college and mopping the girls’ dormitory, he met his life mate Ruth Annette Dabney.  They were married March 22, 1951. United for over seventy-one years, they left a legacy of 3 children, 18 grandchildren, 28 great-grandchildren and 6 great-great-grandchildren.  Early in his career he taught school at Fred and Temple Springs, but spent the majority of his teaching and administration duties at Big Sandy School located in Polk County.  He worked several summers measuring cotton allotments to make ends meet. He served two years in the army during the Korean conflict.  During most of his time in the service he was stationed in Yokohama, Japan.  Besides his love of educating young people, he enjoyed traveling, fishing, and hunting with friends and family.  He was an avid farmer and rancher and a sixty year member of the Texas Farm Bureau, serving on the board of directors of Tyler County for sixteen years.  Earl and Ruth attended church throughout their life together. They were members of Central Baptist of Livingston where Earl was ordained as a deacon.  When they moved back to the Beech Creek Community, they attended First Baptist Church Spurger. Also, he frequently attended Beech Creek Baptist Church where as a youth he accepted the Lord as his Savior. He is loved and will be missed until we see him again in heaven.

Visitation will be held Thursday, February 2, 2023, at the Riley Funeral Home Chapel from 5 pm until 8 pm.  Funeral service will be held Friday, February 3, 2023, at 2 pm at the Beech Creek Baptist Church in Spurger with visitation beginning at 1 pm at the church.  Burial will follow at the Beech Creek Baptist Church. 

Services are held under the direction of Riley Funeral Home, Woodville, Texas.

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