E. Roscoe Horner
© Enid Morning News	09-1999
Submitted by: Jo Aguirre

©Glenn

Alva – A graveside service for E. Roscoe Horner, 83, will be 2:30 PM Monday in Short Spring Cemetery. Bob Reneau will officiate. Arrangements are by Wharton Funeral Chapel.

He was born February 6, 1916, near Ashley, to Mary Wright and Isaac Horner and died Saturday, September 18, 1999, at Alva Share Medical Center.

He attended Short Spring rural grade school, graduating from Alva high school and attended Northwestern State College. He earned a teacher's certificate and taught in several rural grade schools.

On February 26, 1938, he married Georgia Dell Scott at Wellington, Kansas. They lived and farmed in Ashley, moving to Alva in 1942, where he taught flying to Army cadets at Strickland Homer Airport. In 1944, they moved to Wichita, Kansas, and he worked for Boeing. They returned to Alva in 1946 and worked the family farm. He was a car salesman and member of Baptist Church and Alva Elks Lodge.

Surviving are two daughters, Vickie Fagan of Los Alamos, New Mexico, and Jackie Harwood of Las Vegas; two sisters, Lorene Martin of Alva and Marie Hellman of Kingston; eight grandchildren; and nine great – grandchildren.

He was preceded in death by his wife, daughter, sister and granddaughter.

Memorials may be made through the funeral home to Alzheimer's Association.

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