Lorene Miller

After years of working pipelines in boom towns, the 1930 census found the Jordan's had returned to Oklahoma and were living at Moody. Racing horse-back to the creek against brothers brought squeals of delight to her. While in the Moody community, Lorene accepted the Lord at an early age and received baptism at Moody Church of Christ.

At about the age of 15, Lorene moved with her family to Arizona and completed her schooling there. She was a fast learner and her teachers would have to curb her eagerness to respond to questions in an effort to allow other students an opportunity to reply.

Lorene lived in the great Southwest for a number of years and subsequently lived in Detroit for a decade and encouraged any and all of her family to visit. Lorene returned to Tahlequah in the mid fifty's, living on the river at Hidden Paradise Cove.

She always referred to her siblings as "her folks", and was in her element when she could be amongst her folks. A day fishing and an evening frying fish and followed by a big watermelon feed was her kind of day. There was always hooping and hollarin' as the tales were told and the siblings each received a liberal amount of kidding. During more leisure times Lorene talked to her parakeets. Although she had more than one "Jackie the good bird", she had one that was reputed to say over a hundred phrases. Lorene was enthusiastic about life and the vocabulary of her Jackie the bird was well reflected by it. Jackie would greet you with "Praise God and Go Cowboys!". Lorene was pure Okie.

She is survived by nieces Elva Tyler, Maxine Scott and nephew Leo Stinnett. Lorene is also survived by, in her words, "the daughter I never had", her niece Zelda Scott, her care giver for the past twenty years. Lorene was preceded in death by her parents and brothers, Lyford, Alford, Ted and Ralph Jordan and sisters, Madge Brannon and Juanita Stinnett.

Pallbearers will be Will Peterson, Dennis Peterson, Billy Davis, D.A. Tyler, Steve Stinett, and Jay Stinett.