Lois Logan Horn

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Lois Logan Horn
Author, Japanese Translator & Social Worker

I was born in Haigler in April 1923. When the Nebraska State Banks went broke, we moved to an Ohio farm my parents had inherited. After one year of disasters, we moved to Omaha and later to the Sandhills on Pine Creek. (crick in those days.) In 1936, we came to Seattle where our fortunes turned for the better.

Since I was not yet six when we left Haigler, I am surprised that I remember many of the people whose names included in Haigler history. I remember, some vaguely, these families: the Larned Family, of course, because my dad worked in their bank and kept in touch with them almost until his death...Molly Green I remember quite well because she was such a warm, friendly person....The Ventice family lived across the street from us and Mrs. Ventice baby-sat me when my family went to my grandmother Florence Logan's funeral. .Andrew Ventice was their son and I remember he had a tent in his front yard.

Mamie Turpin lived next door to us and her son was Billy Turpin (think his name was Billy). My parents spoke of Bill Zuege, the Schilts and the Schumutte families, a Belle Porter, and I heard a lot about those important citizens: Tom Ashton and Harry Clegg. Harry's daughter married my uncle, Bud Logan. All of their three children have died, the most recent were Gerrald and Marilyn who passed away in the past few months in Seattle. Their children all live in the Seattle area.

I remember Charles Roach, for sure. He was mischievous and he and my brother, Bill, got into trouble now and then. My older brother, Bob, was in love at the age of 12 with a girl named Helen Grace Kelly.

Fred Crone's bank went broke in the 1929 crash and the Crone's moved to California. I visited them in WW II when I was in the Navy.

Billy Armstrong, Garnet Hoover and a few other names ring a bell with me. It is amazing that I remember so much about Haigler since I was not quite six when we left.

I see that there is a Logan street in Haigler. Perhaps it was named for my grandfather who was a pillar in the community. Katye Logan was Superintendent of Dundy County Schools and she was my first teacher.

I wrote a 300 page memoir of the Great Depression (deja vu) and WW II it included the Haigler period of my life.

Lois Logan Horn
September 29, 2008

Outside Person, by Lois Logan Horn

Lois Logan Horn graduated in Japanese Studies from the University of Washington and has a master of social work degree from that institution. In World War II, she translated Japanese messages as a U. S. Navy Communications Intelligence officer. Later, a social work career included service with Seattle Schools, Children's Hospital and child care agencies in Seattle. She wrote on Japanese social and cultural trends for a University of Washington independent study program the year her husband, Robert, was assigned Boeing manager at the mitsubishi Nagoya Aircraft Works.

Outside Person is a frank, authentic account of expatriate life for Americans in Japan. It is rich in details on Japanese culture, history, geography and current trends. In travels throughout Japan by car, the writer experienced Japan's superb mountain and sea scenery, home visits on farms and in cities, Shinto ceremonies, community festivals, shrine sales and Japanese inns. A chapter is devoted to the experience of an American manager working with Japanese management.

Out of Nebraska: A Personal Memoir of the Great Depression and World War II, by Lois Logan Horn

This book is part of a collection of papers donated to the University of Washington Library. Included in their descritpion of her collection is a short bio:

" U.S. Navy Communications Intelligence officer, 1944-45, and longtime Seattle resident. Horn's early life was in Nebraska, followed by various periods in towns further west, as her family tried to survive the Great Depression. Her family settled in the Seattle area in 1936, eventually living many years a block from the U of Washington campus, at 3916 University Way. The family took in student boarders, Lois worked at various jobs, married Bob Horn, eventually graduated from the UW, and served in the WAVES."

Rozella, by Lois Logan Horn is the collection of stories about her mother Rozella Redd Logan (1888 - 1977) This 100 page oral history was published by Migrant Publishers in Seattle, Washington in 1981 and is out of print, but is available at select libraries to be read in library, such as the University Archives and Special Collections housed in the Love South building on the University of Nebraska campus in Lincoln - call number F686.4.H386 1981. It is also included in the Lois Logan Horn - Kansas Collection in the Spencer Library at the University of Kansas.

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