The Albert and Mathilda Rickwalt Family in America:Information about Robert Francis Horner
Robert Francis Horner (b. 08 Jul 1872, d. 24 Dec 1952)
Notes for Robert Francis Horner:
Moved to Michigan from Candada when he was 16 years old.
Household Record 1881 Canadian Census indicates Robert was 8 years old. Primitive Methodist
Obit:Cass City Chronicle, 1/2/1953, pages 1 and 12.
Long-Time Resident of Deford Area Dies:
Funeral services for Robert F. Horner, 80, long-time resident of the Deford vicinity, were held Saturday at 2p.m. in the Novesta Church of Christ. Rev. Horace Freeman of Port Huron, former Deford Methodist pastor, officaiated and burial was in Novesta Cemetery.Mr Horner died Dec. 24 at the home of his daughter, Mrs Paul Wethers , in Kenmore, N. Y.He was bornJuly 8, 1872, in ONtario and in 1901 married Miss Ella Lewis of Deford.Mrs Horner died in June, 1951.A son, Romney, was killed in 1944 in the European theatre of war.Surviving are three sons and three daughters: Keith Horner of Flint, Audley Horner of Cass City and Lewis Horner of Pontiac, Mrs Edna Wethers, in whose home he died, Mrs Fred Rickwalt (Miriam) and Mrs Kenneth Graham (Maxine) of Caro; 18 grandchildren; one sister, Miss Ann Horner of Detroit, and a brother, Sanford Horner of Clawson.
More About Robert Francis Horner:
Burial: 28 Dec 1952, Cass City MI.
Naturalization: 24 May 1900, Village of Caro Tuscola County MI; Quality: 0.26
More About Robert Francis Horner and Ella Catherine Lewis:
Marriage: 14 Feb 1901, Deford MI.27
Children of Robert Francis Horner and Ella Catherine Lewis are:
- Emerson John Horner, b. 18 Jul 1902, Deford MI Tuscola County, d. 18 Jul 1902, Deford MI Tuscola County.
- +Keith Hayes Horner, b. 17 Sep 1904, Deford MI Tuscola County, d. 11 May 1980, Estero FL.
- +Sarah Miriam Horner, b. 09 Sep 1907, Deford MI Tuscola County Novesta Twnship28, d. 21 Nov 1997, Caro Community Hospital Caro MI.
- +Edna Lanore Horner, b. 24 Feb 1910, Deford MI Tuscola County Novesta Twp, d. 08 Apr 1993, New York.
- +Audley Edwin Horner, b. 25 Dec 1911, Deford MI Tuscola County, d. 18 Oct 1997, Shelbyville, TN.
- Romney Francis Horner, b. 07 Dec 1913, Deford, MI Tuscola County, Novesta twp;29, d. 30 Aug 1944, European Area;30.
- +Lewis Eldon Horner, b. 27 May 1915, Deford MI Tuscola County.
- +Anne Maxine Horner, b. 18 Mar 1917, Deford MI Tuscola County, d. 29 Apr 2001, Caro Michigan, Tuscola County.