Hero drowns after saving family

Marty Jordan

 

 

 

By James Fuller

Marty Jordan held tight to his family as the waves crashed around him. He was all they had standing between them and death. And he had to give everything to keep them from it.

The will behind the effort came from a life dedicated to helping others survive. Even as a child, his nine siblings agreed Jordan, of St. Charles, had the biggest heart of all of them. That heart manifested into a career as a social worker for 25 years, helping countless people navigate the obstacles in their lives. As deep, churning waters of a Lake Michigan rip current sucked them farther and farther from shore, it was his own family who called on that heart.