Ora Loranzo Horton

Graveside services will be at 10:00 AM Saturday, December 8, 2012, at Memory Gardens Cemetery in Pampa, Texas, with Sam Giddeon and Robert Newman of the Cowboy Church in Amarillo, officiating. Military honors are courtesy of U. S. Army, Fort Hood, Texas, and arrangements are under the direction of Carmichael-Whatley Funeral Directors of Pampa. Mr. Horton was born September 1, 1920 in Blooming Rose, Missouri to Junia Walker Horton and Lee Thomas Horton. He was a decorated World War II veteran of the U. S. Army, serving in the Battle of Normandy in 1944, and was a CWO in the second infantry division. He was also in the special infantry division at the U. S. Military Academy at West Point, New York. He worked for the U. S. Postal Service and was a member of the Sylvan Hills First Baptist Church. During his lifetime, he had many residences, but always called Pampa home. He was preceded in death by his first wife, Faye Leadean Horton.We thank you for being a wonderful man, father, brother and friend, and for your service to our country.Survivors include his wife: Lola Faye Downs Horton; his son: Travis Horton and wife Cathy of Cedar City, Utah; a stepson: Fred Nalley and wife Lynn of Cabot, Arkansas; 2 stepdaughters: Alice Rhoden and Lydia Blaty and husband T. J., all of North Little Rock, Arkansas; a brother: Robert ?Red? Horton and wife Virginia of Amarillo; 2 sisters: Alma Wade of Oklahoma and Evelyn Henry of Lefors; 3 grandsons: Todd Horton and wife Shari, Chad Horton and wife Shawn, and Christopher Shultz; 3 granddaughters: Sasha Horton, Marina Horton and Bridgett Shultz Greenleaf; 6 step-grandchildren; 9 step-great-grandchildren; and numerous nieces and nephews. Memorials may be made to the Veterans Memorial, North Little Rock, Arkansas, at Fort Roots Hospital.