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  1. Jordan Tucker- he as one of my best friends and I will miss him so much. But as much as I will miss him, I am privliged to have know such a great kid. I have so many great memories of Tuck and it would take me hours to share only a few. One of the funniest things ibremember about him was how be would always sing on the way to basketball games. He wasn’t the best singer, but he put his heart into it and gave everyone a few laughs and a smile. I think that is what he was all about…making everyone feel better and cheering them up. He had a glowing personality and when you were around him,you felt good. I have so many good memories of JT and I thank him for those.

  2. I remember about this time last year, Jordan had caught his limit of Croppies. He would stop by home to show me his ‘prizes’ before going to grandmas/pas to clean them. He brought them in in a bucket, and one started flopping. It scared me, they are slimey and stinky, take them away, I asked Jordan. Instead he picked it out of the bucket and chased me around the house with it. It is a pretty funny video Im told. Jeff, Bre says you have it on your computer, could you load it on the sight to share with others. Jordan was a big pranskter, and this was just one of the many times he had brought fish in to ‘frighten’ me and get a good laugh.

    Barb

  4. haha yeah i remember when i would be at grandmas he would usually come in the house with the fish he caught making gma cook it because you didn’t like the smell in your house. and when he would find a snake he would bring it in to chase gma around with it. haha or when i would go fishing with him and had mentioned that i didnt like touching worm you could bet that a worm would be flung at me or a worm mysterically would by at my feet. eventually i learned better to tell him what i was afraid of. So yes he was definetly a prankster!

    -Cassie

  5. haha yes he was definetly a prankster. I remember going fishing with him and if i had mentioned that i didn’t like to touch the worms you could bet that there was either a worm flung at me or a worm would end up next to me somehow. I finally learned my lesson to never tell him what exactly i was afraid of. hahaI remember he would always bring in anything that he thought would scare you or grandma just so he could see your faces when you would get freaked out. One time i remember it being a gaarden snake that he found.

  6. So many stories. The Tuesday before Jordan passed away, he called me from the dentist office (he of course had perfect teeth), he had a flat tire on the jeep and did not know what to do. It was not flat enough he couldnt drive it at all, so he drove it to the little store’s air hose and I met him there. As Im showing him how to properly put air in his tire he is backing away from me, laughing. He was afraid the tire was going to blow and didnt want to be near it. Neither of us was ‘familiar’ with how much air to put in etc, and it was making this awful hissing noise. Eventually we figured out that was just the hose releasing pressure, but it was a funny site to see the both of us giving the tire a shot of air, then backing away to watch what happened. And he got to drive off in the Avenger, which he always loved to drive, I took the jeep and its bad tire home.

  7. Here is a baby memory of Jord. When I was pregnant with Amanda my back would get pretty sore, all 3 of the kids were over 9 lbs when they were born. Jordan was just about 2, so every afternoon we would take all his ‘crucks’ (trucks) on my bed, and I would lay on my side and nap while he played quietly. He would drive them up and down my back, because he knew that I liked that and it relaxed me. Sometimes when I miss him so much, I can lay on my side and imagine him doing that, I can even here the sound effects he would use for the trucks driving around on my back!

  8. Barb, girls and family/friends,

    I enjoy reading your memories of Jordan, for the people that never met him, it makes us feel like we do know him a little. What a prankster, what a deep voice he had, sounds a lot more older than he was. I can see how much he was loved and what a cool kid he was. He had a special gift and his memories will live on forever in your hearts.

    I’m not a good cook either Barb (I love to eat though) it all depends on what kind of fish it is before I eat it, (can’t stand that real fishy taste), I do like what Red Lobster has to offer.

  9. I remember last 4th of July (2008), on Lake Vermilion. Mike had all those fireworks, and we were at Uncle Brads campsite with Cody. Mike went down to the big rocks to blow one off and tripped as he ran away. I thought he would be hurt by the explosion, so Im screaming “get up” and you and Cody are laughing hysterically, I think Cody has that on his cell phone, and Mike is laying flat on his back enjoying the show shooting off only feet away from him. You always loved those fireworks, and I found your ‘stash’ by the way!!!!!

  10. I remember one time when jordan went camping with my family and I and on our way back we stopped at a gas station to get some gas and use the restroom and jordan spotted a river near and decided that since we were sort of taking awhile he would put his line in the river. I was in the gas station when i remember him runnign up to my and cody and telling us that he saw this HUGE fish in the river where his line was and that we had to come see it. thinking that it would be gone by the time we got there, and there in front of my eye was a fish the size of a motorcycle. And it just. It was scared of us (even though cody might of thrown a couple rocks at it) it just stayed put. So jordan decided that he would try to snag it since this fish was cleary too big to just catch without breaking his pole. So for the next 30 minutes we were all down by this river trying to snag this huge fish. we only left because after awhile it left. But just to remember the look of jordan’s face when he saw that thing was so unforgetable.

  11. I remember this past summer right after captains practices Jordan, Kallen, Nick, Sam Cook, Schrec, and I would go to the cloquet river by Gordy’s and before that Jordan would always tell me to jump off the car bridge so I finally did and it went alright. So anyway after tryouts I asked him to will me his soccer jersey for next year but he wouldn’t will it to me unless i got him 23 “hot” girls phone numbers. Unfortunately I only got him 4 numbers but i actually didnt he just took 4 off since I jumped off the bridge.

  12. yeah i remember 4th of july 08 too. haha and sitting at the camp fire with my dad jordan and cody.. jordan had his fishing line off our campsite, while we listened to mike blow his fireworks off. i think i have a recodring on my phone because i wanted to get my dad talked about bob dylan but you can hear jordans low voice in the background laughing about the fireworks. and then i have him trying to put bottle rockets into our fireplace!! and i’m yelling “jordan!” haha

  13. Uncle Bob or Aunt Danielle just shared this website with me and I am so proud that I am a relative of Jordans. I only wish that I could of gotten to know him better! Your stories are precious and I am enjoying every single one of them. What a wonderful website. I am so sorry for the great loss you all feel. I feel it too. I sense Jordan’s wonderful joy of life and his desire to make everyone happy and to laugh. I love that in a person! I really wish I could of lived closer or visited more often during family reunions to relish his spirited ways! I loved your story about Jordan’s “crucks” and driving them on your back at age 3, Barb. It only proves how much he loved you and wanted to comfort and please you and others. That story brought tears to my eyes. Jordans memorial was so awesome that it took my breath away! You must be so proud! I know that my dad, “Uncle Bud” loved Jordan very much and was deeply saddened by his death. I know he considered Jordan a grandson. My dad loved fishing with him and doing things that he would of loved to do with my son if he were living near by . Pop and Bert thought the world of Jordan. He was so kind and fun for Pop to have around to “play with”. I am so grateful for that! God is happy to have Jordan in heaven as one of his angels now. I guess that is the only way I can cope with losing someone so precious in so many peoples’ lives. I hope each day DOES get easier for you all and that this website helps ease the pain. I will continue to read it. I hope to see everyone soon. God Bless.

  14. Jordan and fishing….need I say more? Last January when Uncle Hal had passed away, Jane and Steve were up from Colorado for the funeral and all my cousins from the cities. It was a Friday and Jord wanted to come to the funeral to pay respects and say hello to family, all the cousins from the hunting shack and his fishing buddies. Afterwards Jordan, Becca, Lucas and Steve went out fishing for the day with Jordan’s new ice house on Big Lake. I remember Jordan not wanting to come of the lake, so every one had to drive separately. Jordan loved to fish and he would never come off that lake, winter’s cold nor summer storms, Jordan would sit out and fish. That January day it was cold, Steve took some great photos of it and I cherish those pictures now. Becca and Lucas and Jordan, the three of them spent many hours out fishing together. Jordan always would text me to let me know when he got out and all set up in his ice house or on the boat, and also once he was safely off the lake. He was a very responcible boy, my cousin Don let Jord use a nice little fishing boat he would often take out on Lake Vermillion on his own. He would stay out for hours. Grandpa always would tell Jordan to come off the lake before dark, and Jordan would often come in just after, he was so at peace in his own skin, staying out on that little boat for hours. Yet I always knew where he was and how the fishing was going. During the winter he would bring his fish by the house, and in the summer he would often send pictures of them to me with his cell phone. Jesse, his step brother, went fishing with him a few times, that was enough, he said Jordan would not come off that lake! This last summer Grandpa Stevens said Jordan was visiting Great Grandpa Stevens gravesite to ask for some fishing secrets. Now I know Jordan and Great Grandpa Stevens are fishing up in heaven and Great Grandpa Stevens would never come off that lake either, even when he went legally blind, he would use bamboo poles so that he could ‘feel’ the fish bite!

  15. Yeah, that’s exactly what I remember. Last summer when we came up to Lake Vermilion for a vacation there was one day when Cassie and I had been out tubing all day and we hadn’t seen Jordan the whole day. We were all sitting around the campfire after dark, so it was probably about 10:30 at night and Jordan walks up with a pack of hot dogs. We thought it was hilarious because he said he hadn’t eaten all day because he didn’t want to come off the lake. He started roasting his first meal of the day at the campfire at 10:30 at nigth because he was so dedicated to fishing that entire day!

  16. There are so many happy moments that everyone got to share with Jordan and I am so thankful for that. He was just an all around good guy and got along with everyone. I remember one time in particular, it was last year, our junior year, and Ms Luchessi, our English teacher split us up into groups to read different books and Jordan was in my group and the book we read was The Old Man and the Sea, which was of course about fishing! Just the entire time we had discussions about the book and different things, like we would have to draw and summarize things, Jordan was always eager to share, ecpecially when it came to showing off his fish drawings. There are so many memories that Jordan left with us and the happy stories? That list is endless.

  17. I just wanted to share the events from last Friday, March 20th, “Jordan Tucker” night at the Superior Rec Basketball League at UWS. Rick Rockwood and team did a wonderful job. They handed out orange wrist bands and orange gatorade in honor or Jordans ‘blaze orange’ wear. He loved that time of year and every year right after hunting season, he would go in to Gander Mountain or L & M to take advantage of the sales on blaze orange clothing.

    In the UWS gym, there was special seating for family and friends from Esko. The roads got a little slick that night, so turn out was not as good as expected, but a lot of families and freinds still braved the roads and it just showed me how much they care. The Hansons were there, Lucas, Kristy and of course Becca Wecca. Ellora Hammersburg was there to represent East, The entire Barrett family was there, and of course Amber and Ben, Jesse, Amanda, Bre, Mike, my dad, Tom and Heidi Peterson, Jill Vork popped in to say hello and last but not least me. There were also many of his team mates from last year there to show their respect and support.

    All of us were called out onto the gym floor and were giving the opportunity to say a few words after Rick introduced us. Lucas’s message was a good one, ‘have fun, its just a game, you never know when its your last game’ very true. Breanna stood up and asked that anyone who has had any signs or symptoms get their heart checked. I was given a beautiful clock in memory of Jordan, inbetween tears, I managed to thank everyone for their support and for remembering Jordan.

    After that we stuck around and caught most of the next game. Mingled and talked with the board and thanked them. What an amazing group of people. We were given a mix CD with Jordan’s favorite warm up songs. It was just an honor to have such a wonderful son who touched so many lives. I hope that we can keep talking about Jordan, getting that story out there, educating people on cardiac health. Jordan was a healthy, happy, well loved boy, no one, not even him knew he had an arrhythmia. A good percentage of the time the first sign of an arrhythmia is death, you need to act fast to save someone you think may be having a cardiac arrest. Its good to see the AEDs around schools and gyms. Wouldnt it be great to have a better screening for cardiac issues at physicals. No EKGs are not fool proof, they dont catch everything, but its one step closer to saving some kids. It may have saved Jordan.

    I would like to ask everyone to keep talking about Jordan, to share his story. To watch for ‘events’ like the Superior Rec. Bball league put on and to show your support for this cause. SADS.org has some good info on Sudden Cardiac Death Syndrome. Jump Rope for heart at Esko HS this spring will be held in Jordan’s memory. Esko High School students will be asked to join the cause this year in his honor, please do. Please check my facebook account for messages or activities/ways you can help. Check this website, light candles for Jordan, share your stories.

    Thank you all for your support, Jordan had some great friends and classmates from all over. It is very nice to get your cards, letters and read your notes on here. I look forward to hearing from more of you and we will try to post some pictures on here from Jordan Tucker night.

  18. I want to thank Jordan’s uncle Brad and cousin Cody for braving the weather and coming down to witness the evening also. Brad has been very good to Jordan, driving out to see his fish tent, taking him fishing many, many times, getting up late at night to see fish Jordan caught and always taking an interest in his activities. We, (gramma and grampa) appreciate this very much!

  19. Hey Jordan,

    I know your Grandpa, Uncle Brad and cousin Cody missed you so much at the annual fishing trip. Uncle Brad knew is was not going to be easy without you around but he made sure he was there for Grandpa.

    Jordan, even though I only saw you a few times (once at our cabin and at Cassie’s graduation party-with a cast on your leg) I know you so well from Uncle Brad and I miss the heck out of you. You are such a beautiful person and will live in my heart forever.

    Please watch over everyone especially your mom and sisters and give them a sign that you are okay….

  20. We just went up to Lake Vermilion on vacation last week. We thought of the Jordan a lot. We would always stop at Cabelas on the way up and Jordan would be on the phone telling us what to get for fishing. We missed that this year. Last year we pulled up to the campground and here comes Jordan in his car, with a bucket filled with water and a walleye, in the front seat. We missed him this year. We took pictures of a few of his fishing spots. It looked lonely. I believe Jordan is catching tons of fish with Great Grandpa Stevens on Jordan’s dream lake. We missed him and thought of him a lot.

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