Christine Horton

Christine Stearns Horton died on April 28, 2011 at her home in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. A native of Alabama, she was born in Dadeville on December 25, 1921. She married Lt. Richard S. Horton in the Chapel at Moody Field, Valdosta, GA on December 13, 1942. After WWII they located in New York State.

Christine proudly served on the Board of Trustees for the Historical Society of the Tarrytowns, Inc., and was a long time patron of Christ Episcopal Church of Tarrytown, NY. She was employed as an executive secretary for twenty years at Pepsi-Cola International World Headquarters in Purchase, NY. She retired to Woodstock, CT in 1987 where she lived for 17 years.

The mother of five children, she leaves four behind while going to join her third son James Robert. Surviving her are sons, Dick and Rhonda Coast, Jon and wife Ellen of Oklahoma City, OK, David and wife Sandra of King George, VA, and her daughter Meredith Ann and her husband Brian Page of Croydon, NH. She was blessed with twelve grandchildren, eleven great-grandchildren with the twelfth on the way, and a niece, Mrs. Sallie Ann Stearns.

At her request, there will be no memorial or formal burial services, just a grave side service for family. The interment of her ashes will be in Dadeville, AL in the family plot.

In lieu of flowers any tangible offerings may be made by a contribution to The Fidelco Guide Dog Foundation, Inc. 103 Old Iron Ore Road, Bloomfield, CT 06002 to be used towards the purchase of a seeing-eye dog for the blind or to Physicians Choice Hospice, 1131 East Britton Road, Oklahoma City, OK 73131 for their kind and compassionate care.

Arrangements under the direction of Hahn-Cook/Street & Draper Funeral Directors, Oklahoma City, OK.