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George Landon Horne was born September 20th, 1918 on the farm in Sussex County
He was delivered by Dr. Stoneham.  Dr. Stoneham failed to send in a birth
certificate to the state, so there is none on file.  He attended and graduated
from Waverly High School, in Waverly, Virginia in 1935.  He walked to school
until his senior year, until transportation was available (this was 1.5 miles
each way).  His first job was at the D. Pender grocery store in Waverly,
Virginia.  He attended Smithdeal-Massey Business College in Richmond, Va. His
hobbies were baseball, horseshoes and fishing. He was a Phi Beta Kappa
president.

He served in the US Army in WW-II in the 10th Armored Division. He then went
to OCS and was commissioned an officer and went with the Army General Hospital
Corp and served in the South Pacific in New Guini and the Phillipines.  He
later retired as a LTC in the Army Reserve Hospital Corp. He can still, in
1992, still fit in his WW-II uniforms.

Landon is 5'6 and his avg weight all his life has been between 120-125 pounds
and he is 5'6, with brown hair and blue eyes.

He joined the insurance firm of Gibson, Moore and Sutton and retired as a
partner and Corporate Secretary.

Landon and his family are members of the Tabernacle Baptist Church and served
as Deacon, church clerk, and was on the administrative board.  He should be
remembered that he practiced his religion in everyday life as well as attend-
ing church regularly.

Landon met his wife, Mayme Virginia Newman, at a church forum at Tabernacle.
She was living with her aunt Mamie, here in Richmond. Ginny was working at
Richmond Machinery at the time.  They fell in love and married within a year.
Their first house was at 3314 Patterson Avenue, Richmond, Va., and paid about
$11,000 back then.  It should also be remembered that gas was only .25 a
gallon.

Landon would like to be remembered for raising two (2) exceptional, honest and
Christian children in this age of temptation and moral decay.

Betsy's Father died just before 1:00am, Saturday, July 21, 2001.

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