Obituaries:  Julius Louis "Dudley" Horton, Sabine Parish       H-635
Source:  Sabine Index, Many, La., Mar 12, 1987
Submitted by: Carl Dilbeck
              carlrad@earthlink.net


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Julius Louis "Dudley" Horton

  Services for Mr. Julius Louis "Dudley" Horton, 80, of Vivian,
were held at 3:30 p.m., Tuesday, March 10, at the McGuire Funeral
Home Chapel in Vivian. The Rev. W. E. Nolan, pastor of the United
Methodist Church of Vivian, officiated. Burial with Masonic
graveside rites, was at Vivian Cemetery.

  Mr. Horton died Sunday, March 8, 1987, at a North Caddo Memorial
Hospital, after a long illness. He was born in Mineola, Tex., and
had been a resident of Vivian for 70 years. He married Lillian
Zackary, June 20, 1937, in the home of Rev. W. T. Ware. He was a
distributor for Cities Service, and retied in 1968. He was a
member of the United Methodist Church of Vivian, and the Men's
Bible Class, the Masonic Lodge No. 314 in Vivian, and a member,
and past Worthy Patron, Vesper Chapter of the Order of the
Eastern Star No. 107, a member, and past post commander of
American Legion Post No. 140, and a member of the 40 and 8 Club
in Shreveport. Mr. Horton served in World War II, in the Pacific,
as a Master Sergeant in the Intelligence Department.

  He is survived by his wife, Lillian Z. Horton of Vivian; three
nieces, Kay Horton of Mathews, North Carolina, Barbara Pharis of
Many, and Rosemary Woody of Longview, Texas.

  Pallbearers will be Bob Mosley, Lynn Eaton, Nathan McDow, Luther
Ben Smith, Bill Atkins, and Dr. C. B. Caldwell.