On September 14, 2016, Margaret Theresa Jordan passed away peacefully after enjoying 92 years of an extraordinary life. After the Bolshevik Revolution of 1917, her parents fled east from Siberia ahead of the advancing Red Army, eventually settling in Shanghai, China, where Margaret was born on January 16, 1924. The family later moved to Dusseldorf, Germany and then Vienna. During World War II, she was forced into the young women’s work camps, but eventually returned to Vienna. She escaped by train just as Russian forces entered the city and joined her sisters in a mountain village. After their village was liberated by Gen. George Patton’s 3rd Army, she returned to Vienna where she worked at the U.S. Embassy on the Marshall Plan for post-war reconstruction. The GIs, when told her name was Margaret, called her Margie, a name she embraced and went by for the rest of her life. In Vienna, she met her first husband, Army Air Corps officer Logan Earl Hysmith, legal adviser for the American sector. They were married in Oklahoma where two daughters were born. In 1951, the family moved to Arlington where a son was born, and later to Fairfax City. Lt. Col. Hysmith died January 3, 1967. Margaret married Cmdr. Charles J. Jordan in September 1973. She loved travel, boating, gardening, cooking, dancing, playing bridge and reading, and was a Florida snowbird. At her home, she hosted nine weddings, baptisms, graduation and holiday parties, with all food prepared by her and family members.
She was preceded in death by her two sisters and her second husband. She leaves behind children Margaret van Reuth (Edward), Stephanie J. Hysmith (David Mould), and Logan M. Hysmith (Robin); grandchildren Ron van Reuth, Ida Wilson, Abigail Carte, and Jessica Evans; nieces Vera Pindter and Nina Muys and nephew Dieter von Trotha. Visitation will be Wed., September 21, 4-5 p.m. followed by a service at Baker-Post Funeral Home 10001 Nokesville Rd., Manassas, VA 20110. www.bakerpostfh.com. 703-368-3116.
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