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Marjorie Horner Andrews © Henninger-Hinson Funeral Home 02-2011 Submitted by: Jo Aguirre
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Marjorie Horner Andrews, 100, a horticulturist and Enid resident since 1936, died February 16, 2011 at the Sterling House, an assisted living facility in Enid, of congestive heart failure. Marjorie Mae Horner was born on April 16, 1910 in a Wichita, KS, hospital to Clarence and Iva Marston Horner, homesteaders near Lamont, OK. She grew up on farms near Lamont and Oakwood, OK, graduating from Oakwood High School in 1929. She attended what is now Southwestern Oklahoma State University in Weatherford, OK, where she received her teacher’s credentials. She taught in a rural elementary school.
She and Cecil P. Andrews were married in 1931 and moved to Enid in 1936. She was a charter member and past president of several regional garden clubs, including those devoted to roses, gladiolas, irises, and chrysanthemums, as well as the Enid Council of Garden Clubs. She was a multiple winner in flower shows and served as a judge in others. Mrs. Andrews was supervisor of the Enid State School greenhouses and grounds from 1955 until her retirement in 1976. While there, she was an organizer and first president of the employees union. In retirement, she took up oil painting and has completed dozens of oil painting, mainly of flowers and flower arrangements.
Mrs. Andrews has been a member of the First Presbyterian Church of Enid since 1936 and has served as an Elder and on Session. She is a life member of the Sons and Daughters of the Pioneers. She is honored by the Marjorie Horner Andrews Graduate Scholarship Award in the OSU Department of Horticulture and Landscaping Graduate Studies program.
Mrs. Andrews has one son, Milton Andrews and wife Pat, and their daughter Heather Andrews, who lives near Washington, DC; four grandchildren, Eric Reed of Edmond, OK; Phillip Reed of Norman, OK; Kay Reed Shaughnessy and her husband Jim of Enid; and two great-grandchildren, Jake and Aine Shaughnessy. She was predeceased by her husband Cecil Andrews in 1974 and a daughter, Yvonne Andrews Reed, in 1988.
Visitation will be at Henninger-Hinson Funeral Home Friday, February 18, 2011 from 3:00-5:00pm. Services will be held at the First Presbyterian Church on Saturday, February 19, 2011 at 2:00 p.m. In lieu of flowers, contributions may be made to the First Presbyterian Church through the funeral home.
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