Submitted by: Nadine A. Hardin
Name in Obituary: John A. Horning
<John Andrew Horning>
Surnames Mentioned: Horning, Peltz,
Mrozek, Beliview, Fields, Hennion
South Bend Tribune, Local Obituaries; Wednesday,
September 28, 1983
John A. Horning, 79, of 1605
Southwood, died at 4 p.m. Tuesday in his home after a lengthy
illness. Born on June 24, 1904 in Mishawaka, he was a
lifetime area resident. In 1922, he joined the Peltz Kaufer
Paper Co. as an accountant, where he became president in 1937.
Then in 1951 he left the firm to form John A. Horning Associates,
an industrial sales organization serving Indiana and Michigan
where he was president until retiring in 1978. On July 17,
1926, in South Bend, he married Bertha C. Peltz. She
survives along with four daughters, Mrs. Mary C. Mrozek of
Irving, Texas, Mrs. Susanne Beliview of Las Vegas, Nev.,
and Mrs. Mary K. Fields and Mrs. Betty Ann Crosier,
both of South Bend; three sons, Donald N., James A., and John
II., all of South Bend; 25 grandchildren; 19 great-grandchildren;
two sisters, Miss Evelyn Horning and Mrs. Geraldine Hennion,
both of Mishawaka; and a brother, Francis A. Horning of South
Bend
Services will be conducted at 11 a.m. Friday at St. Anthony de
Padua Catholic Church, with Rev. Robert A. Yast, pastor,
officiating. Entombment will be in Highland Cemetery.
Friends may call from 5 to 8 p.m. Thursday in the Hickey Funeral
Home. A fourth degree knight, he was a member of Knights of
Columbus Council 5521, the Catholic Order of Foresters, Elks
Lodge 234, Moose Club, South Bend Rotary, Society of
Manufacturers Agents Inc., and the Citizens' Historical
Association. He was in the "Who's Who in Indiana"
in 1974. He attended St. Joseph College, Rensselaer, the
South Bend College of Commerce, and Indiana University at South
Bend. Memorial contributions may be made to the Christ
Child Society or to St. Joseph's Medical Center