Rosalie Ann Jordan of Spring Lake Heights passed away, suddenly, on April 13.
Born in Jersey City and raised in the Arlington section of Kearny, Rosalie (“Cissie”) moved with her family to Spring Lake Heights in the fifties. She was employed as an executive secretary in the RCA and S. S. Adams Novelty Company. At JCP&L, where she worked for 35 years,she became a pioneer for women, breaking the glass ceiling to become the company’s first female Residential-Builder Representative and later a Commercial/Industrial Representative. She received numerous Program Marketing Awards.
Rosalie loved all things Irish. She traveled to Ireland with her Holle cousins on her Aunt Betty’s first return trip to County Antrim which Betty had left in infancy. That emotional reunion will never be forgotten by participants on either side of the Atlantic.
In her earlier years, Rosalie loved the beach, swimming, playing the piano, and horseback riding. She was especially proud of her Arabian horse, Condor el Raj. She always loved cooking, and was quite the chef!
Traveling was another of Rosalie’s passions. More recently, her travels were via television and she was most grateful for EWTN which allowed her to attend daily Mass. Rosalie was a parishioner of St. Stephen’s Church in Arlington in her youth. After moving to Spring Lake Heights, she attended St. Catherine’s Parish, but currently was a parishioner at St. Mark’s, in Sea Girt, where she was living to help her aunt.
Rosalie was predeceased by her beloved
grandparents, James J. and Rose Ann Hamill Jordan; her parents Edward P and Marie Jordan; her brother, James J. Jordan; her aunts and uncles: James J. Jordan Jr., Elizabeth A. Jordan,John W. and Louise French Jordan, Thomas J. and Margaret Feeley Jordan, George and Mary Jordan Fultz, William B. Jordan, John & Rose Jordan Wildeman, John A Holle, Sr. and Ernest C. Corcoran. She was also predeceased by first cousins John A. Holle Jr., Thomas J Jordan Jr. and first cousins once removed Stephen R. Sherman, and Jason Jordan.
She is survived by her aunts, Cecilia Jordan Holle of Bloomfield and Teresa Jordan Corcoran of Sea Girt, as well as 15 first cousins and their offspring in the US, and dozens of cousins in Ireland, all of whom will miss her dearly. Memorial donations may be made to: Saint Joseph’s School for the Blind, 761 Summit Ave., Jersey City, NJ 07307 https://schoolfortheblind.org/ The Seeing Eye, P.O. Box 375, Morristown, NJ 07963 https://www.seeingeye.org/