BIXBY -- Bill E. Jordan, the former chief of police for Sapulpa , Seminole and Cleveland, Okla., among other towns, died Tuesday. He was 72.

A funeral service has been set for 10:30 a.m. Friday at Smith Funeral Home in Sapulpa.

Jordan was born Oct. 31, 1934, to Lilly and Samuel Jordan near Vian.

He graduated from Central High School in Muskogee in 1952 and married Barbara Jo Owen in June 1961.

Jordan began his police career patrolling the streets of Muskogee on a motorcycle.

After a little more than a year, he and his family moved to Sapulpa, where he climbed the ranks until he became the police chief.

In 1972, he became the first Creek County officer ever chosen to attend the FBI Academy.

Jordan retired after 20 years of service in Sapulpa . He moved in 1981 to Seminole, where he was police chief for four years.

He was a U.S. deputy marshal at the federal courthouse in Muskogee for four more years before working as police chief for the towns of Cleveland, Hobart and Tonkawa.

He is survived by two sons, Billy Lee Worrell of Texas and Gary Wayne Jordan of Sapulpa ; a daughter, Gayle Lynne Cordell of Holdenville; a brother, Dean Jordan of Muskogee; a sister, Dorothy Williams of Tennessee; and three grandchildren.

Complied and transcribed by Marti Graham, 2011.