Marian Irene Driscoll Jordan (April 15, 1898 â€" April 7, 1961) was an
American actress and radio personality. She was most remembered for
portraying the role of Molly McGee, the patient, common sense,
honey-natured wife of Fibber McGee on the NBC radio series Fibber
McGee and Molly from 1935â€"1959. She starred on this series opposite
her real-life husband Jim Jordan.Jordan was born Marian Irene Driscoll
on April 15, 1898 in Peoria, Illinois. She was the twelfth of thirteen
children born to Daniel P. Driscoll, (1858â€"1916) and Anna Driscoll
(née Carroll), (1858â€"1928). Driscoll's paternal great-grandfather,
Michael Driscoll, Sr. (1793â€"1849), emigrated with his wife and
children from his hometown of Baltimore, County Cork, Ireland in 1836
to the Boston area and then to Bureau County, Illinois in 1848.As a
teenager and young adult, Driscoll gave music lessons and sang in
choir at the church which she attended. While at choir practice one
day, she met a member of the choir named James Edward "Jim" Jordan.
The two were married on August 31, 1918. They had two children
together; a son and a daughter. The couple went on to have a long
career in show business.Their life as newlyweds started humbly. Marian
became a piano teacher and Jim a mailman. Jim enlisted in the army and
was eventually stationed in France during World War I. He contracted a
case of influenza during the 1918 flu pandemic but survived. After the
war ended, Jim stayed in Europe to do Vaudeville performances for
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