Horn services
Baldwin ? Services for Charles William “Bill” Horn, 86, Baldwin, will be at 1:30 p.m. Monday at First United Methodist Church in Baldwin. Private family inurnment will be later in Oakwood Cemetery, Baldwin.
Mr. Horn died Thursday, Oct. 16, 2003, at Baldwin Care Center.
He was born April 23, 1917, in Evanston, Ill., the son of Nelson and Nell (McGlumphy) Horn. He was raised in Ames, Iowa, and graduated from Ames High School. He attended Iowa State University before graduating with a Bachelor’s of Fine Arts degree from Baker University in 1939. He was in the Signal Corps of the U.S. Army during World War II, serving two years in Europe. He graduated from Emporia State University with a master’s degree in school administration in 1968.
Mr. Horn was a junior executive with JC Penney before he started Bill Horn’s Men’s Shop in Baldwin. He taught junior high school for 10 years as was junior high principal for another 10 years in the Baldwin school district.
He was a member of First United Methodist Church, Baldwin City Rotary and Baldwin American Legion Post No. 228. He was also a photographer who shot pictures for area fraternities, sororities and weddings.
He married Evelyn Copeland on June 14, 1941, in Parsons. She survives, of the home.
Other survivors include a son, Mike, Nebraska; two daughters, Linda Lederer, Albuquerque, N.M., and Debbie Shafer, Baldwin; two brothers, Lester, Colorado Springs, Colo., and Harold, Olympia, Wash.; six grandchildren; and six great-grandchildren.
The family will receive friends from 6 p.m. to 8 p.m. Sunday at Lamb-Roberts Funeral Home.
The family suggests memorials to the Nelson Horn Memorial Fund established at Baker University or to the church, sent in care of the funeral home, P.O. Box 64, Baldwin 66006.