Katherine Mary Stokes Horn

ARLINGTON, VIRGINIA – A funeral service for Katherine Mary Horn, 85, will be celebrated on Tuesday, December 27, 2011, at 11 a.m. at the Old Post Chapel at Arlington National Cemetery, Virginia, with interment to follow. After the ceremony, the family will receive friends in a reception at the Fort Myer Club adjacent to the cemetery.

Mary Horn passed peacefully Thursday, October 27, 2011, at Wake County Hospice, Raleigh, North Carolina. Born July 22, 1926, in Spring Lake, New Jersey, Mary was the youngest of three daughters of Everard Stokes and Phyllis Beavis Stokes. She was married to the late Charles Samuel Horn (Colonel, U.S. Army retired) for 41 years. Together with four children, Irish wolfhounds, cats, and even a guinea pig, she travelled the United States and Europe never missing an opportunity to plan a fun, educational site-seeing excursion from New York City to Athens, Greece. An avid equestrian, Mary loved her horses which she bred and trained from the family’s New Trafford Farm in Madison County, Virginia. She also loved the ocean shore, where she rode her horses and walked her goats as a young girl, as well as the Duck, North Carolina, beach house which was the gathering point of many a memorable family summer vacation. Her vitality and love of life, as well as her enduring smile and good humor, will remain a source of joy to her family and friends.

Surviving are her children: Mrs. Margaret A. Nordt of Raleigh, North Carolina; Ms. Katherine Mary Horn of Hamilton, Virginia; Dr. (Colonel, retired) Charles S. Horn of Springfield, Virginia; and Colonel (retired) Carl W. Horn of Prosperity, South Carolina. She was equally proud of her surviving 14 grand children and 5 great grand children.

The family would greatly appreciate memorials be sent to the Wounded Warrior Project at http://www.woundedwarriorproject.org/ or to any other preferred charitable organization.

Online condolences may be made to www.apexfuneral.net