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Car Accident Injuries Are Fatal to Ernest G. Horner

91-year-old Poultry Authority Dies in St. Mary Hospital Sunday -- Hurt in Crash Thursday.

Ernest G. Horner, 91, of 408 North Twenty-eighth, widely known authority on poultry and pet stock, died in St. Mary hospital Sunday night at 6:22 of injuries received in an automobile accident last Thursday at Eighteenth and Locust. Mr. Horner, who was driving his own car, received a severe head injury.

Mr. Horner was one of Quincy's oldest and most widely known citizens. He was exceptionally active for a man of his age and took much pride in a large garden he cultivated adjacent to his well-kept home.

Widely Known.

"Ernie" Horner, as he was known to hundreds of Quincyans, was the oldest member of the Masonic fraternity in Quincy. He had been a member of all Masonic bodies for more than 50 years and was a subscriber of The Herald-Whig and its predecessors for 65 years.

During the administration of Gov. Louis Emmerson, Mr. Horner became head of the poultry division for the State of Illinois and served in that capacity for five years. He also served as president of the Quincy Poultry and Pet Stock association that conducted shows annually for several years.

Mr. Horner was born in Kansas May 30, 1863, and was married to the former Clara Ohnesorg, a native of La Grange, Mo., in Anthony, Kas., on Nov. 28, 1889. They came to Quincy the following year and Mr. Horner was employed by Jonas Meyer, Clothier, for 38 years. Mr. and Mrs. Horner observed ther 63rd wedding anniversary last November. Mrs. Horner died the following month.

Following the death of his wife, Mr. Horner continued to live in the home near the corner of Twenty-eighth and Broadway which they built nearly 38 years ago when the section was on the outskirts of the city. During the past year, Mr. Horner visited a son, Lester in Los Angeles, Cal., and flew to Wichita, Kas., to visit another son, Floyd.

Surviving are the two sons; two grandchildren and a great-grandchild.

Has Three Sisters.
Also surviving are three sisters, Mrs. Anna Grant of Fairview, Okla., Mrs. Bessie Roettinger of Rock Hill, S. D. [sic, should be Rock Hill, S. C.], and Mrs. S. W. Hill of Cherokee, Okla.

Mr. Horner attended First Presbyterian church. He was a member of many Masonic organizations, including Quincy lodge No. 296, chapter No. 5, R. A. M., Quincy council No. 15, R. and F. M., Beauseant council No. 11, Quincy Consistory, S. T. R. F. Valley, and Medinah temple, A. A. O. N. M. S., of Chicago.

An inquest will be conducted Monday evening at 7:30 by Coroner Gerald Points in Stormer funeral home.²

Ernest G. Horner

Funeral services for Ernest G. Horner were held Wednesday afternoon at 2 in the Stormer funeral home. The Rev. David C. Kinnard conducted the services and Mrs. Alvoid Colpitts played the organ. Masonic services were conducted by Quincy lodge No. 296, A. F. & A. M., with Everett Lawerence as master; Charles E. Sparks, chaplain; and Donald Van Hoy, secretary. Burial was in Greenmount cemetery. Pallbearers, all past commanders of Quincy commandery No. 77, Knights Templar, were A. L. Bowman, A. J. Edmondson, A. J. Fisher, L. C. Huebner, E. A Kelle and R. R. Worman.¹⁵

Mrs. E. G. Horner Dies at Age of 83

Mrs. Ernest G. Horner, 83 of 408 North Twenty-eighth, died Tuesday night at 6:50 in St. Mary hospital. She had been in ill health the past year and a hospital patient since Nov. 15.

Mrs. Horner, the former Clara Ohnesorg, was born in La Grange, Mo., July 21, 1869, a daughter of Antone and Elizabeth Ohnesorg, and was married to Mr. Horner Nov. 28, 1889, at Anthony Kas. They came to Quincy the following year and have resided at the present address for 37 years. Gardening was the hobby of both Mr. and Mrs. Horner and for some 35 years they annually raised choice vegetables on a garden plot at their home. The Horners' 63rd wedding anniversary occurred the day after Thanksgiving this year but there was no celebration as in former years because of Mrs. Horner's health. Mrs. Horner was a member of First Presbyterian church and had been active in church work until recent years.

Surviving besides Mr. Horner, who is 89, are two sons, Lester of Los Angeles and Floyd of Wichita, Kas; two grandchildren, and one great-grandchild.³

ROBERT LINCOLN GRANT

The Rev. Robert Lincoln Grant went to his crowning in an Enid hospital Nov 14, 1953 after a lingering illness. He was born in Wedowee, Alabama, March 30,
1873.

He received his early education in Alabama and in 1895 went north for his college work in Appleton, Wisconsin at Lawrence University. In 1900 he answered a call for a young preacher in Oklahoma where he began his active ministry on the Enid Circuit at the Horner School-house, the Shackley School-house, and the Bethel Church east of Enid. The second year the little town of Cropper was added to the circuit. He was admitted to the Oklahoma Conference on trial in 1901 and into full connection in 1903. He was ordained deacon in 1903 and
elder in 1905.

He was the youngest of four brothers to enter the ministry and is the uncle
of our Bishop, A. Raymond Grant now of Portland, Oregon Area. He spent all of his ministerial life in Oklahoma serving 39 years and retiring in 1941. Churches served by Brother Grant include: Billings, Norman, Edmond, Tonkawa, Kingfisher, Cherokee, Woodward, Waukomis, Kaw City, Thomas, Fairview, Watonqa, Lamont, Medford, Hennessey, Shattuck and back to Billings.

In 1902 he was united in marriage to the eldest daughter of Mr. and Mrs. I. N. Horner. He is survived by the wife of the home and two daughters: Mrs.
D. S. Waters of Enid and Mrs. W. R. Brown of Fairview; and one son, R C. Grant of Chicago; one sister, Mrs. Alice Parker of Altus, Oklahoma; five grandchildren and thirteen great grandchildren.

He was a man of profound convictions and courage to defend them, a faithful and diligent pastor.

In the same pulpit, where in 1903 he saw the sunrise of his active ministry begin, he stood 38 years later, after forty years’ service to see the shades of a declining sunset on his active work and retired in 1941, serving in the retired relation for 8 years, Cleo Springs and Oakdale, Ringwood and Concord, Lahoma and Ames.

Services were conducted November 17th in Enid by Robert J. Smith, Virgil
Alexander, M. M. Alden and O. W. York.

Robert J. Smith.⁴

JOSEPHINE BROWN

A longtime resident of Enid and Fairview, Josephine Brown, 78 died May 21 in a Portland, Ore., hospital after a period of ill health.

She was born Aug. 3, 1904, in Billings to the Rev. and Mrs. R.L. Grant, and married Dr. Raymond Brown. The couple lived in Fairview for many years where he practiced dentistry. She was a member of the First United Methodist Church of Enid and the Neal Chapter of the Order of Eastern Star.

Survivors include a daughter, Betty Isaman, Milwaukie, Ore; a brother, R.C. Grant, King City, Ore; a sister, Mrs. D.S. Waters, Enid; and four grandchildren.³