Charles Glennon Horn, known to his family and friends as Chuck, was born in Decatur, Illinois, June 10, 1939. At only six years old, he moved to California with his parents, Charlie and Connie. The family finally settled in Downey in 1955.
Chuck went to the University of Southern California where he met and married his college sweetheart, Myrna, graduated, and eventually started a family that included daughter, Melissa, and son, Matthew.
He began his career in the textile industry with Fieldcrest Mills where he endeavored to climb the ladder from sales rep, to regional manager, President of the Karastan Division, then president of the corporation Fieldcrest Mills.
He managed to fit in an Advanced Management program at Harvard in 1983 before becoming the President and Chief Operating Officer of the newly formed company when Fieldcrest acquired Cannon Mills and became Fieldcrest Cannon Mills in 1987.
Beloved and respected by all in the industry, he took early retirement in 1995 and relocated from New York City to his home in California. He spent the last 25 years of his life with his second wife, Barbara, traveling around the world, playing golf, and enjoying home life in Newport Coast, near son, Matthew, daughter, Melissa, her husband Kevin, and only granddaughter, Natalie, now 17 years old.
He will be fondly remembered and dearly missed by all.
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