Funeral for Victoria officer who spent 30 years mostly unresponsive after crash
VICTORIA — Hundreds of people lined a procession route of uniformed officers as some wiped away tears outside a church Thursday before the funeral of a Victoria constable who’d been in an unresponsive state for most of 30 years.
Const. Ian Jordan’s wife Hilary Jordan and their son Mark walked arm in arm up the steps of Christ Church Cathedral, where about 1,000 mourners, mostly law-enforcement personnel, paid their respects to the officer who died last week.
His coffin, draped with the Canadian flag, was carried in by uniformed pall bearers after officers from Canada and the United States marched there from the headquarters of the Victoria Police Department.
Chief Const. Del Manak said earlier Thursday that he provided regular department updates to Jordan as he lay in hospital.