Louis Max Horning

©Enid News and Eagle

10-02-2008

Submitted by: Jo Aguirre

© Glenn

The funeral service for Louis “Luge” Max Horning will be held at 2 p.m. Sunday, October 5, 2008, at the Wakita Methodist Church, Wakita, OK. Burial will be at the Wakita Cemetery. Arrangements are being handled by Blackwell Funeral Home.

Louis was born on December 20, 1917, on his father’s Cherokee Strip homestead (SE28-28-7) to Charles and Lillian (Mitchell) Horning and died on Wednesday, October 1, 2008, at home in Wakita.

He attended rural grade school at Mt. Zion and went on to graduate from Gore High School in 1935. Louis started his farming career in 1936. Louis was a World War II veteran, enlisting in the United States Navy on December 20, 1941. He completed basic training at the Corpus Christi Naval Air Station. He was an Aviation Chief of Maintenance (ACMM) USN 3510174) and served at Marshall, Mariana and Johnston Islands. He also served with the Occupation Forces to liberate and evacuate American POWs in Japan. Louis received an honorable discharge in late 1946 at the Navy Yard in Washington, D.C. Louis returned to farming in Wakita in 1946. He married Bertha L. Smith, daughter of Roy and Pauline Smith, on August 15, 1948. To this marriage three children were born, Catharine Lillian (Horning) Seely, Jeannie Kay Horning and Roy Phillip Horning. Along with farming, Louis was crew chief of aircraft maintenance on the B-52 and T-33 aircraft at Vance Air Force Base in Enid from 1955-60. He was then employed by the City of Wakita as City Maintenance Manager from 1960-73. Louis was a long-time member of the Wakita United Methodist Church.

He was preceded in death by his wife, parents, two sisters, Ida and Bess and four brothers, Charles (Chuck), Ralph, Clifford (Bill) and Edward.

He is survived by his children, Cathy Seely and husband, James of McKinney, Texas, Jeannie Horning of Wakita and Roy Horning of Wakita; two grandchildren, Jason Seely and wife, Leeanne of Dallas, Texas and Lauren Seely of Washington, D.C., along with a host of extended family members and friends.

Memorials may be made to Hospice Circle of Love, Wakita Methodist Church or Wakita Educational Foundation.

Condolences may be sent to the family using our online guestbook at www.blackwellfh.com.

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