Eddy Co. NM - OBITS:  H. Wayne Hornbaker

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Submitted by:  patti pennington <patti_p_99@yahoo.com>
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The following excerpts were taken from page 14 - The Artesia
(NM) Daily Press - January 16, 2000

HORNBAKER
Funeral Services were January 14 at Bright Funeral Home in
Silver City, NM for former Artesia resident H. Wayne Hornbaker.
Hornbaker, 87, died on January 11 at Gila Regional Medical Center.
Interment followed at Fort Bayard National Cemetery with military
honors.  He was born on April 5, 1912, in Clifton, Colo., to
Walter Raymond Hornbaker and Mary Olive Emmert Hornbaker.  His
family moved to a farm in Artesia in 1917.  He married Patricia
Ann Cristy on December 5, 1947, in Albuquerque, NM.  He joined the 
Army in 1942.  He served for four years at Fort Bliss, Texas, and
later in the Pacific Theater as a staff artist on Army newspapers.
After their marriage, he and his wife moved to the family farm
in Artesia for seven years.  He taught biology and physics.  He
was a member of First United Methodist Church.