Mary Catherine Horn

Our mother, Mary Catherine Godsey Horn was born on June 11th 1944 to William and Geneva Godsey in Kansas City, Missouri. She was an only child and grew up in the Grandview, Missouri area. On September 26th, 1964 she married our Poppa, John Wayne Horn, an AirForce GI stationed at Richards-Gebaur Base in Missouri. In 1965 Cecelia was born followed by Amelia in 1970. As children, we lived all over the western part of the United States. Mom was very much a Military spouse, putting in roots for our family with each new move. She always established herself as an independent woman, wife and mother. She was an Avon lady, worked at banks, the Commissary on base and in a bakery. She learned to decorate cakes and made each of our birthdays extra special with her beautiful cake decorations. At her heart she was a writer and was published in magazines and newspapers. She knew how to "grow where she was planted". She joined bowling leagues, a theater group and volunteered her time to better the lives of people and pets. She was fiercely independent and resisted retirement, moving finally to Yukon, Oklahoma to be near her girls and grandchildren. These last years she reinvented her life and "grew where she was planted" yet again. She joined a writers group, volunteered at a local nursing home calling bingo, volunteered at the Pets and People Thrift Store two days a week, hosted monthly dinner and cards with friends at her home, planted a garden each summer, fed many stray and wild animals, baked cakes for her neighbors and spent time with her family. Mary is survived by her daughters, Cecelia Hendrix and Amelia Moore and her Sons-In-Love , Terry Huston and Robert Rizzo. Mama had four grandchildren and two great grandchildren; John Moore and his wife Danielle Moore, Steven Moore (fiancé Hannah Tucker) and their daughter Alexandria Moore, Hannah Hendrix (fiancé Michael Pipan) and their son Beau Pipan, and Eden Rizzo and her significant other, Michael Rinehart. She left this world on August 13,2024. She was the strongest woman, and taught us to be strong, independent and loving, as she was.