Henry "Trail" Hunter Jordan

Henry "Trail" Hunter Jordan, Jr. Kosciusko, MS Henry "Trail" Hunter Jordan, Jr. Kosciusko, MS Henry Hunter Jordan, Jr., 73, passed away on December 19, 2016. Visitation is 5-9:00 p.m. Wednesday, December 28, 2016 at Jordan Funeral Home. Services are 1:00 p.m. Thursday, December 29 at Jordan Funeral Home. He will be buried with military honors at Parkway Cemetery. Rev. Scott Wright and Rev. Barry Corbett will officiate the services. Trail graduated from Kosciusko High School in 1961, and was recognized as the first of several male football cheerleaders. He attended Holmes Community College and The University of Mississippi and graduated from John A. Gupton College of Mortuary Science in 1964. He served in the United States Army during the Vietnam War ('68-'69). During his military service he attained the rank of SP5(E-5) and served with the 173rd Petroleum Company out of Greenwood, MS and the 173rd Mortuary Affairs (formerly Graves Registration) Detachment at the mortuary headquarters at the Da Nang Air Force Base. He is a Life Member of the VFW Post #1983 and the American Legion Post #44. He was the third generation owner and operator of Jordan Funeral Home. Some of his personal accomplishments included: serving as 1980 president of the Kosciusko-Attala Chamber of Commerce, participating in the Attala County Civil Defense and past president of the Kosciusko Jaycees, involvement with the American Board of Funeral Service Education, and the 1990 president of the Conference of Funeral Service Examining Boards. He was past president of the Mississippi Funeral Directors Association. In 1976, he was appointed to serve as secretary-treasurer of the Mississippi Board of Funeral Service where he served for sixteen years. He and his firm are members of the Selected Independent Funeral Homes, and the International Order of the Golden Rule. A colleague wrote, ‘...I wanted to express the active role your dad (Henry) had in making the funeral service/mortuary science program at Holmes Community College in Ridgeland the excellent program that it is...he was vital to the program's development and accreditation...'. Outside of the funeral business, Trail was an avid outdoorsman and enjoyed the company of his family and friends. He also enjoyed being involved in politics, but never pursued an elected office. He always had a passion for fishing and hunting and earlier in his life also enjoyed snow and water skiing. His love for fishing and hunting took him to many places throughout the U.S. and such places as Costa Rica and South Africa. He had a passion for the fly fishing which he mastered at a very young age. He was very talented in hunting, and deadly accurate with weapons. His favorite game to hunt included: quail, turkey, duck, dove, and deer. Anybody that knew Trail knew that he was an aficionado of clothes and hunting and fishing gear. In recent years, he became very involved in genealogy. He had an extreme aversion to snakes, meatloaf, and fast food. He was preceded in death by his wife of 48 years, Ann Firestone Jordan; and parents, Henry Hunter Jordan, Sr. and Lillian Clark Therrell Jordan. He is survived by sons, Henry Hunter Jordan, III, and his wife, Rosalind Hayden Jordan of Kosciusko, and Jackson Firestone Jordan, and his wife, Julie Horn Jordan of Madison, MS; grandchildren, Henry Harrison Jordan, James Parker Jordan, Lillian Audrey Jordan, Julianna Violet Jordan, and Jackson Firestone Jordan, Jr.; brother, Bob Jordan, and his wife, Debbie E. Jordan of Kosciusko; and sister, Jill Jordan O'Donnell and her husband, Kevin of Baton Rouge