[Dixielandjazz] Fw: Sally Horton, RIP

[Robert S. Ringwald]

This from our former listmate Bill Horton.


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "BILL HORTON" <hoodatdere at yahoo.com>
To: "Undisclosed Recipients" <hoodatdere at yahoo.com>
Sent: Tuesday, August 21, 2007 10:38 AM
Subject: Sally Horton, RIP


> Dear family and friends
>
>  I am sorry to report Sally's death at 1 a.m. Thursday morning at Blue 
> Grouse Medical Care facility in Fort Collins.   She was stricken with 
> Alzheimer's Disease about two years ago, and the disease has caused a 
> gradual decline in her mental and physical condition.  The decline 
> accelerated after an operation to repair a broken hip a few months ago. 
> Medication has kept her relatively free of pain and anguish, and she 
> passed peacefully in her sleep.
>
>  We have lived and made friends in so many cities throughout the country 
> that it is impossible to reach you all in a newspaper obituary, so I'll 
> include a brief one here.
>
>  Sarah ("Sally") Mountford was born in Canton,  Ohio in 1923, and grew up 
> in East   Liverpool, Ohio.  She graduated from East   Liverpool High 
> School in 1941, majored in Education at Miami  University and taught 
> primary grades in E. L. public school for two years.  At Miami U. she 
> joined Kappa Delta sorority.
>
>  In first grade she met William Horton and they began dating in their high 
> school senior year.  They married at the First M.E. church in E. L. in 
> 1944, shortly before Bill was deployed to Europe in World War II.
>
>  Their first child, Susan, was born in E. L. shortly after Bill's return 
> from the war, and they lived in Columbus,  Ohio while he completed his 
> education at Ohio State Univ. Bill's career involved moves to Elyria,  OH, 
> Dallas and Midland, TX, La Mirada, Castro Valley and Santa Clara, CA. 
> Along the way, daughter Hollace and sons Christopher and William, Jr. were 
> born.  Hollace died at age 10.
>
>  Sally and Bill founded St. Christopher's Episcopal Mission (now Parish) 
> in La Mirada and Sally served as Sunday School Director and head of the 
> Altar Guild.  She later headed the Altar Guild at Trinity Episcopal Church 
> in Hayward, CA   She and Bill were active in the 1964 Presidential 
> campaign, making friendships which have lasted over the years.  As the 
> boys grew up, Sally was a Cub Scout Den Mother.
>
>  After retirement in 1978, the Hortons lived in San Diego and Lake Tahoe 
> for a couple of years, then settled in Los   Osos, CA.  Sally was active 
> in volunteer work.  She was Mayor of Sea Oaks community, a member of The 
> Chiefs, president of Kiwaniannes and Laguna Lake Ladies Golf club and of 
> garden clubs.  She was very active in the Basin Street Regulars jazz club 
> in Pismo  Beach, volunteering many years for the club's annual Jubilee By 
> The Sea, and chairing their Raffle Committee.
>
>  Sally loved making friends, helping people, traveling, planning unusual 
> parties, family camping, playing slot machines, decorating homes and, 
> especially, gardening.  She made beautiful flower gardens wherever we 
> lived.  She loved bowling and golf, watching Raider football games, and 
> listening to traditional jazz.  She was afraid of sailing, but loved to 
> sit in our sailboat at the dock, sipping scotch or polishing the teak.
>
>  Sally is survived by husband William of Fort Collins, CO, daughter Susan 
> and her husband David Kline of Santa Clara,  CA, son Christopher and his 
> wife Joyce of South Lake Tahoe, CA, son William, Jr. and his wife Kathy of 
> Fort Collins, CO, and four grandchildren:  Charlotte, Kristen, Carrie and 
> Christopher.
>
>  Sally will be interred at Golden   Gate National Cemetery in San Bruno, 
> CA.  She lives on in the hands of God and in the hearts of her loving 
> partner of over 62 years and of her family and friends.
>
>
>
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