OBITUARY

Name:     Levi Horn

From:  The Idaho Free Press, Nampa, Idaho
Date:  Thursday, April 1, 1971   

MARSING -- Services for Levi Horn, 96, of Marsing, who died Wednesday in a Caldwell hospital, will be conducted at 2 p.m. Friday at the Flahiff Funeral Chapel with the Rev. Philip Klakel of the Memorial Baptist Church officiating.

Graveside services and interment will be conducted at the Surface Creek Cemetery at Eckert, Colo.

Mr. Horn was born March 13, 1875 at Bloomfield, Iowa, a son of George and Rachel A. Cossel Horn.  He was reared and attended schools in Iowa and at the age of nine moved with his family to Texas.  He was a baseball player and bronco buster at the age of 12.  He married Maud E. Blodgett on Dec. 18, 1902 at Bradley, Okla., which was then still Indian territory. They lived for a time in New Mexico and in 1919 they located in Colorado.  He came to Idaho in 1940.  Mrs. Horn died Oct. 16, 1928 in Eckert, Colo.  He was married in Jun of 1945 to Grace Wilson.  They lived south of Nampa where they farmed and moved to Marsing in 1966 when he retired.  He was a former member of the Off Fellows Lodge.

Survivors are his wife; a son, Moad M. Horn, Eckert, Colo.; two daughters, Mrs. Frances (Retta) Vela of Telluride, Colo., and Esther Coons of Caldwell; a brother, Jesse Horn of Oklahoma City, Okla.; a sister, Mrs. Claude Marsh of Valley Center, Calif.; six step-children; seven grandchildren; 19 great-grandchildren and one great-great-grandchild.  Several step-grandchildren and step-great-grandchildren also survive.

He was preceded in death by a daughter, a sister and three brothers.