Henrietta Barrett Jordan

Rhett Stevens Barrett Jordan, 90, of Mount Pleasant, South Carolina, died Friday, September 27, 2013. She was first married to the late Lawrence W. Barrett, Jr. and is the widow of Dr. John A. Jordan. Her funeral service will be held Wednesday, October 2, 2013, in St. Philip's Church, 142 Church Street, at 2:00 p.m. Interment, Churchyard. Arrangements by J. HENRY STUHR, INC., DOWNTOWN CHAPEL.

Rhett was born August 16, 1923, in Charlotte, NC, a daughter of the late William S. and Rosalyn Blake Stevens. She graduated from Bennettsville High School and attended Lander University in Greenwood, SC.

In 1942, after World War II began, she moved to Charleston and worked for the United States Naval Supply Department, which was located in the Fort Sumter Hotel (6th Naval District Headquarters). In 1945, after the war ended, she moved to Columbia, SC and worked for the Loyalty Group Insurance Co. It was in Columbia that she met and married her first husband, Lawrence W. Barrett, Jr., who was finishing his last year of college at the University of South Carolina.

After their marriage, they returned to Charleston and Rhett worked temporarily for the City of Charleston Treasurer's Office. From there, she was employed at the Medical University of South Carolina (Anatomy Dept.), where she worked until 1954. From 1964-1989 Rhett worked in St. Philip's Church office, first as a secretary and later became the office manager. She retired in 1989 to be with her husband, who had retired a year earlier. Unfortunately, he died a year later.

In 2001, Rhett married Dr. John A. Jordan, a veterinarian in Laurinburg, NC, where they lived until his retirement in 2006. They moved to Southern Pines, NC in 2007. Dr. Jordan died in 2009 and Rhett returned to Charleston, where she lived until she moved to Somerby Retirement Home in Mt. Pleasant and lived there until her death.

Rhett is survived by a son, Lawrence W. Barrett III of North Charleston; a daughter, Rosalyn B. Ennis of Harrodsburg, KY; a granddaughter, Elizabeth L. Anderson of Charleston; a sister-in-law, Mrs. Alexander Stevens of Columbia, SC; three nieces: Frances Burriss of Chapin, SC, Anne Throop Taylor of Myrtle Beach, SC and Liza Pantano of Butte, MT; and many great-nieces and nephews.

In lieu of flowers, memorials may be made to the Lamb Institute, 215 Hickory Street, Charleston, SC 29407.