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HORTON, Earl M.
Elk Point - Earl M. Horton, 83, died Friday, Sept. 22, 2000, at a Minneapolis hospital.
He was born Aug. 17, 1917, on the farm homesteaded by his grandfather.
He graduated from Elk Point High School, then attended Southern Normal in Springfield. He served in the U.S. Army Air Corps with the Western Command during World War II.
He married Dorothy Bair on Nov. 26, 1945, in Clovis, N.M. The couple returned to the Elk Point area after his discharge in 1945, where they began farming.
He was a member of St. Paul Lutheran Church, and served as a 4-H leader. He was also a member of Disabled American Veterans, and a charter member of the Union County Historical Society. He helped establish a museum devoted to local history on the family farm, and regularly displayed historical items for the Lincoln County Achievement Days.
Survivors include his wife, Dorothy a son, Hon of Earlham, Iowa a daughter, Glenadene Aamot of Beresford five grandchildren and two great-grandsons.
Services begin at 2 p.m. Thursday at St. Paul Lutheran Church in rural Elk Point with burial in the church cemetery.
Friends are invited to the Horton home in rural Elk Point this evening.
The Anderson Funeral Home in Elk Point is in charge of arrangements.
Contributed by Candi Horton - Argus Leader (Sioux Falls, SD) - September 27, 2000
MORRIS, Emery,
Sioux City, Iowa, December 1 – Emery Morris president of the Dakota territorial legislature in 1872, and a South Dakota Pioneer died at Elk Point today of Cancer, aged 66.
Omaha World Herald – December 2, 1904 -- Transcribed and Contributed by: Frances Cooley
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