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Robert William (Bill) Horn, passed away peacefully, in his daughter’s home, on September 20, 2012, after a brief battle with Acute Leukemia.
Funeral: 10:00 a.m. Thursday at Crossings Community Church Chapel. Private Family Interment: Pecan Grove Cemetery, McKinney Texas. Visitation: 6 to 8 p.m. Wednesday at Matthews Funeral Home.Memorials: Expressions of sympathy may be made to the American Cancer Society. Bill was born in McKinney Texas on February 20, 1930 the son of William Franklin Horn and Johnny Faulkner Horn. Bill graduated from Boyd High School in McKinney and attended Texas Christian University in Fort Worth.
He spent a number of years working for Texas Pacific Railroad and Central of Georgia Railroad. In the 1960’s he started in the food and hotel business where he managed the Rio Motor Hotels in Fort Worth, Ardmore and Oklahoma City.
Bill worked 25 years as the head waiter at the Haunted House Restaurant in Oklahoma City, and also worked as a hairdresser.
In 1994 he fulfilled his lifetime dream of owning his own restaurant when he opened Twelve Oaks restaurant in Edmond.
Bill also enjoyed farming and ranching for many years.
Bill is survived by his sister Elnora Horn Geer (96) of McKinney, Texas; daughters Lisa Janes and husband Gregg Janes of Edmond, Julie Coffey Chieffalo of Fort Worth, David Sherrill of Linden, VA. and Robert Sherrill of Mansfield Texas; grandchildren Brandon Janes and wife Megan. Olivia Means and husband Eric, Morgan and Ella Coffey, Mandy, Willa, Justin, Kristen, Kinze and Kalee Sherrill; and 10 Great Grandchildren; many cousins, nieces and nephews. The family would like to thank Physician’s Choice Hospice, Dr. Robert Reynold’s, Dr. Mark Lynn and all of Bill’s loyal Twelve Oaks Employees and Customers.
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