Jordan

This blog is for family and friends of Jordan Scott Nagler to share the relationships and experiences they had with Jordan. When someone has lived as extraordinary a life as Jordan did, maintaining a varied group of family, friends, and colleagues, there are many stories of uncommon adventure, allegories that will bring tears and memoirs that will make people who cared for Jordan laugh out loud. This site is is here to encourage the people in Jordan's life to illustrate his adventure by sharing pictures and by scribing the venturesome life that Jordan lead. You can either comment on a post or you may email pictures and stories to jordannagler@yahoo.com and your contribution will be posted. Please share your pictures, thoughts, and stories so that everyone can enjoy and reflect on what a truly awesome person Jordan was.

Jordan Nagler, died suddenly by accidental drowning in Hollywood, Calif. on Oct. 13, 2008. Born on June 24, 1978 in Rockville Centre, N.Y., he and his family spent brief stints in St. Louis, Mo. and Littleton, Colo. before relocating to Boise in 1985. He attended Highlands Elementary, then North Junior High, where he was the inaugural recipient of the Renaissance Man Award. He went on to graduate from Boise High and in 2001 from Idaho State University with a Bachelors of Business Administration in finance. Jordan made his way through life as a dishwasher, framer, shipwright, and Irishman. For the last six years he had been the Executive Director of International Student Exchange of Babylon, N.Y., a position that allowed Jordan to show the world his generosity and boisterous personality. Jordan led Midwestern exchange coordinators, Asian program directors, South American contract negotiators and his friends and family in often hilarious adventures in exotic locales. While in New York, Jordan discovered the importance of family, forming new bonds with extended family members and amassing friends at an astonishing rate. He loved surfing, sometimes on a board and sometimes in a kayak. He could often be found bouncing around Manhattan finding cultural events nonexistent in the small town he grew up in. Jordan loved Ultimate Frisbee so much that he destroyed both shoulders playing. He spared no effort or expense to ensure that he went snowboarding several times a year, sometimes in the mountains of his beloved Idaho, sometimes in a place less beautiful. Jordan leaves behind two loving parents, Roark and Pat Nagler, two flawed brothers, Ryan and Patrick and two adoring grandparents, Fred Nagler and Rosemary Nipper. He also has two nephews, Raiden Jameson and Brody and two nieces, Hannah and Amaya, most of whom he never met. Jordan was preceded in death by his grandfather, William J. Jordan and his grandmother, Helen Jordan. His friends, who were the bastion of his sanity for many years, miss him as much as any family member. Idaho misses you too, Jordan. A viewing will be held at Summers Funeral Home in Boise on Sunday, Oct. 19, 2008 at noon, a memorial service will begin at 4 p.m. Arrangements are under the direction of Summers Funeral Homes, Boise Chapel. His family requests that any who have a story to share bring a permanent copy, digital or paper, to the service for a compilation. A scholarship to enable disadvantaged foreign students to have an American experience has been set up; in lieu of flowers please send donations to the Jordan Nagler Memorial Scholarship Fund, 119 Cooper St., Babylon NY 11702.

Nagler Family

Roark, Patricia, Ryan, Patrick and Jordan.