Jordan Garris Buckaloo
May 7, 1968 - Jun 19, 2011
Posted by Martha Reddout

© Marietta Monitor
10 Feb 2012, Pages 1 & 3
Source:  © Watts Funeral Home

A resident of Love County most of his life, Jordan graduated from Dickson High School in 1986.  As a young man he enjoyed noodling for fish. At the time of his death he was employed as a licensed electrician for Ward Electric in Ardmore, OK.

He was preceded in death by his father on May 26, 2010; maternal grandmother, Odessa "Nanny" Hester; and paternal grandparents, Irene Buckaloo Barber and Lome Price Buckaloo.

Survivors include his mother, JoAnn Buckaloo of Marietta; three sons, Garris Buckaloo, Price Buckaloo and Dakotah Buckaloo, all of Dickson; daughter, Kelsi Buckaloo of Marietta; three sisters and brothers-in-law, Tori and Ron Collett of Raleigh, NC, Tracey and Ricky Boyd and Tamera Mills of Marietta; and several aunts, uncles, nieces, nephews and cousins. 

Serving as bearers were Garris Buckaloo, Price Buckaloo, Dakotah Buckaloo, Bryce Mills, Chad Vanderburg and Aaron Stinson. Honorary bearers were Jimmie Dodson, Andrew Alvizo, Jim Buckaloo, Paul Boyd and Ricky Boyd.
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Skeletal remains belong to Buckaloo

It is not the way family members would have wanted, but Jordan Buckaloo has been found.

Skeletal remains were discovered late last week by Corps of Engineers surveyors working in the Hickory Creek Wildlife Management Area.

After contacting law enforcement officials, the skull and the few bones were sent to the office of the State Medical Examiner for identification.

Family members were notified Tuesday that the remains were positively identified to be Buckaloo.

It has been more than seven months since Buckaloo was first reported missing.

The first clues that the 43-year-old was missing were a vehicle and part of his clothing found on the Hickory Creek Wildlife Refuge Tuesday, June 21, 2011.

The items were discovered near a large pool of water, leading law enforcement to believe a drowning might have occurred.

The water was dragged and a dive team combed the depths, finding no trace of Buckaloo.

Numerous extensive ground and air searches of the area by both law enforcement and family yielded no results in finding the missing man.

Over the months that followed, local and state law enforcement investigators questioned scores of individuals trying to piece together any part of the puzzle that might indicate what happened to him.

Since the positive identification, the case has changed from missing person to suspicious death.

Having only skeletal remains makes it more difficult, but it still might be possible for officials to determine a cause of death.