Ann L Jordan

Ann Laury Kottmyer Jordan of Carlisle, PA passed away on September 27, 2026, at the age of 100, after a long illness. 

She was born on August 18, 1926.

 Her husband, Earl Jordan predeceased her in 1990.

 She is survived by her only daughter, Dyane Laury Jordan Wright, son-in law, David G. Wright and her only grandchild, Lindsay Jordan Wright.

Her sisters, Nancy Shaub and Jane Patterson predeceased her.

Ann Jordan was a commercial artist, a fine artist, an art teacher at Lamberton JHS, an interior decorator, a landscape designer, fashion designer, and seamstress. She graduated from The Art Institute of Pittsburg in the 1940’s, worked in the advertising department of a national apparel chain in New York City and subsequently moved back to Carlisle, PA where she married Earl Jordan in 1950.

She won numerous awards and recognition for her artistic contributions in the Carlisle area. Among them are Carlisle’s United Fund symbol and the Cumberland County 1976 Bicentennial symbol. She was on Carlisle’s Project 61 Committee for Revitalization and Restoration Board, volunteered on the Borough Park and Recreation Board, the Carlisle Hospital Auxiliary and the YWCA board. From its beginning she was influential in the 1993 renovation, transforming the Carlisle Theater into the Carlisle Regional Performing Arts Center. She was very active in the First Lutheran Church where she designed the stained glass windows above the doors in their renovated Narthex and painted 3 wall murals in the nursery.

At her 100th birthday celebration, the Cumberland County Board of Commissioners presented her with a Centenarian award commendation.

In lieu of flowers, please consider a donation to the First Lutheran Church’s “Fine Arts at First.”