John Peter Jordan

John will be greatly missed. I've known him for the last 8 years, through DANEnet and have always greatly appreciated his gentle and wise contributions to our work. Further, I've appreciated our conversations about history and the Middle East and his interest in my additional passion, beekeeping, due to his father's beekeeping hobby. John, we will always miss you.

John and I shared many a moment discussing our mutual interest in films. They were always lively conversations, and John seemed willing to listen to my often overly biased opinions. And, I became sensitive to the films that Patty might not share my enthusiasm for and would steer them away as being for John's eyes only. I think he often took me up on my recommendations. I'm going to miss those conversations. I'm comforted knowing that John's broken heart no longer feels any pain.

I got to know John through Pat, with whom I worked for over 20 years. He was always a kind, thoughtful man, and I was especially touched by his loving care of Patty when I would visit her. I have to smile when I think of the many different juices and sodas he purchased so she had something she would enjoy, and which he would offer me by running down the list, complete with description and their rating of its taste. Such a good guy.

John was my husband Dennis' roommate at Madison, back in the day. We had many wonderful times with John and Patty, and now we will have wonderful memories of them both.

An early memory of my brother John, who was seven years younger than me, was ca. 1955, when he would have been four. Florence and John Retzer were close friends of our family, and when John died unexpectedly, in (I think) 1955, when Johnny would have been four, Florence later told my parents that Johnny had shown a degree of sympathy for her that she found impressive in a child so young. That, I think, turned out to be a key element in his personality. He was concerned all his life with relationships, community and communication, which underlay his role in the creation of DANEnet here in the Madison area, a program launched in the early years of the tech revolution to make emerging communications technologies available to individuals and non profits. I especially remember his generosity, his caring for our parents in their declining years, and for his wife, Patty, during the several years when she was dying of cancer. I remember his lifelong friendships with friends like Joey Aldworth and Bill Rieder, and the intensity of his interest in history and current affairs---well, actually, the intensity of all his varied interests. I wish he were here now to offer his perspective on what is going on in Ukraine... John's brother, Bill Jordan III March 21, 2022