Dr. John Hannon "Jack" Horne, Sr., age 93, retired Dean of Admissions Emeritus at East Carolina University died December 3, 2007 in Laurinburg after a brief illness.
The family will received friends at Scotia Village in Laurinburg for 6-8 p.m. Tuesday, December 4,. Interment will be private in Greenwood Cemetery in Greenville, NC. There will be a service at Wilkerson Funeral Home in Greenville on Wednesday, December 5, at 3:00 p.m.
Dr. Horne was born March 31, 1914 in Rocky Mount to the late George Rouche and Genevieve Hannan Horne. By the age of five he was an orphan, having lost his parents, a sister, and an infant brother. Thereafter hea and his brother, George "Buddy", were reared in Spencer, NC by their aunt and uncle, Carrie Horne and John Archie Hutchins.
After graduating from Spencer High School, he attended the University of Chicago and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill from which he earned a bachelora
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