Kathryn HORTON

HORTON
Kathryn "Kitty" Williams Horton, age 83, passed away Saturday, the 14th of May 2011. She was born on the 16th of February 1928, in Alvord, Texas.
Mrs. Horton graduated from San Jacinto High School in Houston and later attended Baylor University in Waco, Texas. After raising her children, she returned to banking where she worked for many years until retiring from Frost National Bank in 1995. She was a Deacon at South Main Baptist Church where she was a member for 65 years. Among her many interests, she was active in S.M.I.L.E., South Main's program for teaching English as a second language, where she served as a Director, and was a volunteer for The Blue Bird Circle. She was also a longtime member and a past officer of Coterie of Houston and a member of the Briar Club.
Robert M. Horton, her husband of 54 years, died in December 2002. She is survived by sons, Michael Horton of New York City, and Larry Horton of Southampton, New York; and daughter, Nancy Lynn Horton of Beverly Hills, California. She is also survived by her two grandchildren, Kathryn Allison Mann of Los Angeles, and Stephen Mann of Boston.
Friends are cordially invited to a visitation with the family from four o'clock in the afternoon until half-past six o'clock in the evening on Friday, the 20th of May, in the Drawing Room of Geo. H. Lewis & Sons, 1010 Bering Drive in Houston.
The memorial service is to be conducted at eleven o'clock in the morning on Saturday, the 21st of May, at South Main Baptist Church, 4100 Main Street in Houston, where the Rev. Erin Conaway, Associate Pastor, is to officiate.
In lieu of customary remembrances, memorial contributions in honor of Mrs. Horton may be directed to the South Main Baptist Church Foundation, 4100 Main St., Houston, TX, 77002-9693; or to The Blue Bird Circle, c/o The Blue Bird Foundation, 615 West Alabama, Houston, TX, 77006-5003.