Minnie Etta (Barnett) Horner (1962)

HORNER, BARNETT, TURPIN, WELLS, APPLEGATE

Posted By: Pat Hochstetler (email)
Date: 8/22/2008 at 11:25:39

Earlham Echo – November 8, 1962

Obituary

Minne Etta Barnett, daughter of Isaac and Sarah Scott Barnett, was born January 11, 1877, in a little cabin on the Barnett farm north of the Bear Creek Friends church.

Her early life was spent in the Bear Creek community near Earlham, Iowa. Here she attended school and church. Minnie was a birthright member of the Friends church and was reared in a home where there was daily reading from the Bible and teaching concerning the Christian way of life.

On Christmas Eve, December 24, 1902, she was united in marriage to Milton Horner from near Redfield. One son, Wilbur Burton, was born to them. During most of their married life they made their home in Redfield, though Milton continued to farm the Barnett homestead. Those years of happiness together ended by the sudden death of the husband and father on July 19, 1908.

The next few years were spent at Earlham and Bear Creek except for a short period at Oskaloosa, Iowa. Following her father’s death in 1921 she spent several years caring for her mother who passed away in 1928. Left with no home of her own, she spent a number of years assisting with the work in the homes of relatives and friends. Sorrow came to her again with the death of her son Wilbur in the summer of 1944. Finally, because of broken health and crippled condition, she spent many years in the Parkview Home at Earlham and the Wilkinson Nursing Home at Winterset.

It seemed that Minnie’s course in life was beset by many trials and disappointments but she met them bravely and without complaint and in quiet submission to her Heavenly Father’s will. Her final call came on Sunday, October 28, 1962, at the Winterset Memorial hospital at the age of 85 years, 9 months and 17 days.

She was preceded in death by her husband, her son, her parents, and an only brother, Bert J. Barnett.

She leaves to cherish her memory a daughter-in-law, Pauline Horner of Tacoma, Washington; four grandchildren, Jack Horner of Tacoma, Jim Horner stationed in Florida with the Air Force, Mrs. Loma Turpin of Bellingham, Washington, and Mrs. Nancy Wells of Tacoma; and eight great grandchildren. She is also survived by a niece, Maudie Applegate, two nephews, Willard and Clyde Barnett, a number of cousins and many friends.

Funeral services were held in the Evans Funeral Home in Earlham at one o’clock on November 2, and at Bear Creek Friends Church at 2:00. The pastors of the two Meetings, Ernest Baiotto and Willard Reynolds, were in charge of the services. Burial was in the Bear Creek cemetery.