William Francis Jordan, Jr.
July 4, 1933-April 10, 2017
Los Altos, California

William F. Jordan, Jr. passed on April 10, 2017, at age 83. Born on the 4th of July in 1933, to William and Mildred Jordan, Billy grew up in Teaneck, New Jersey as the middle child with sisters Nancy and Cindy. He graduated from Worchester Polytechnic Institute in 1956 with a BS in Electrical Engineering, and married Ruth Ann MacFarland in June of that year. Bill then served six months active duty as a Second Lieutenant in the U.S. Army Signal Corps. William Jordan's career began in the earliest days of the semiconductor industry, where he started as a transistor circuit applications engineer. Eventually, he migrated to the computer industry as a designer of several integrated circuit chips that were used in computers for many years. He published many professional papers, magazine articles and patents, throughout the '60s and '70s. In 1967, he was presented the H.W. Sweat Award by the Honeywell Corporation for outstanding engineering. In 1971, Bill and his family moved to Portola Valley, when Bill began to work for Intel Corporation, a brand new private company. He reported to Bob Noyce, the company CEO, with the assignment of establishing a memory systems business for the newly developed main memory chips. Bill assembled an organization that designed and manufactured memory systems, and established dedicated sales, marketing, maintenance and lease financing organizations to support this business. In 1973, his organization was named an Intel Division, and Bill was promoted to become Intel Corporate Vice President. He continued his career at Intel, and later in executive positions at several other companies until he retired in 1988. In his retirement, Bill enjoyed playing tennis in Portola Valley, gardening, and frequent family gatherings with his children and grandchildren. He is survived by five of his six children; Pamela Mulvey of Penngrove, Chuck (and Elizabeth) Jordan of Tres Pinos, Rick (and Jeana) Jordan of Whittier, Jennifer (and John) Pilling of Los Altos, and Wendy Jordan (and Juan Garcia) of Redwood City. He is also survived by his eight grand children; Philip Jordan, Michael (and Grace) Pilling, Hayley Mulvey, Melissa Pilling, Meghan Mulvey, John Mulvey, Emma Mulvey, and Will Jordan. He is preceded in death by his wife, Ruth Ann, who passed away in 2009, and by his son, Rob, who died last year. He was a devoted husband, loving father, and proud grandparent. Friends are invited to services to be held at Ladera Community Church, on Friday, May 26th, 2017 at 2pm.

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