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JOHN R. HORNING, SR.
John
R. Horning, Sr., better known as “Jack,” is always ready to be of service to
Rosemead; over the years he has performed a succession of essential tasks. In 1951 – 1952 he served as manager of the
Rosemead Merchant’s Association, in 1954 he was chairman of the first Rosemead
Park and Parkways District Number 8, and in August, 1959, was appointed to the
first City Council of Rosemead to fill an unexpired vacancy. For several years he was a director of the
Rosemead Chamber of Commerce and was its president in 1955 – 1956, during which
time he organized and supervised the first Rosemead booth at the Los Angeles
County Fair in Pomona – for two straight years the Rosemead booth won
honors. Jack Horning was instrumental in
giving the facts and figures for the first street-light investigation for
Rosemead and fought for them all the years he was in the Chamber of Commerce. Due to his past activity and interest in the
Rosemead Park Board, he was appointed by Mayor Arnold Andersen, in the fall of
1961, to be on the Park Study Group in regard to the city’s problem of
acquiring the park.
Before
becoming a Pasadena resident in 1921, John Horning lived with his parents, John
M. and Emma L. (Heath) Horning, in Spokane, Washington, the city in which he
was born on August 1, 1904. He received
his elementary and high school education in Spokane and Pasadena. He became a Rosemead resident in 1946, after
living in Eagle rock for ten and one half years.
In
1925 Jack Horning became employed with the City of Los Angeles Department of
Public Works, transferring to the Department of Water and Power in 1933, and is
now surveying party chief in charge of overhead surveying. He has expanded the department and has
twenty-six men under his supervision.
Mr. Horning is a member of the Architects’ and Engineers’ Association of
Los Angeles. He is a past member of the
National Guard.
Jack
Horning’s wife is the former Norma Louise Bochemohle
of Kansas City, Missouri, to whom he was married in Pasadena on June 27,
1930. Mrs. Horning has been employed
almost five years now at the Expectation Shop in Rosemead and formerly owned
and operated the Kiddie Korner Baby Shop in Rosemead, 1951 – 1953. She has been active in the Women’s Society of
Christian Service of the Rosemead Community Methodist Church to which she and
her husband belong. Mrs. Horning is a
past member of the Rosemead Women’s Club, sang in the Rosemead Mothers’ Chorus,
and was active in Parent-Teachers’ Association elementary, high school and
council work while her four children were in school. From 1944 on, for six years, she boarded
babies for the Children’s Home Society of California before they were adopted.
Mr.
and Mrs. Horning’s three daughters and one son are all graduates of Rosemead
High School: Mrs. Richard (Patricia Ann)
Bowen, who was a member of Rosemead High School’s first graduating class in
1950; Mrs. Ben (Roberta Jean) Sauceda, a cheerleader
in high school and active in school politics and a capella choir and other vocal groups in high school, works in Los
Angeles, lives in Bell, and is the mother of two children, June Evelyn and
Michael.
Mr.
Horning is skilled at his hobbies—photography, wood carving, carpentry, cabinet
work, and gardening. He is now studying
camera repair.
Transcribed by
V. Gerald Iaquinta.
Source:
Historical Volume & Reference Works Including Alhambra, Monterey Park,
Rosemead, San Gabriel & Temple City, by Robert P. Studer,
Pages 828-829, Historical Publ., Los Angeles, California. 1962.
© 2013 V. Gerald Iaquinta.
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