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ROBERT G. HORR JR. FORMER BANKER, AUTO DEALER: Newspaper Obituary and Death Notice
Watertown Daily Times (NY) - December 7, 1999
Deceased Name: ROBERT G. HORR JR. FORMER BANKER, AUTO DEALER
A memorial service for Robert G. Horr Jr., 72, of 411 General Smith Drive, was at 2 p.m. today at Sackets Harbor United Presbyterian Church with the Rev. Cynthia Walton, pastor, officiating. Private burial will be at the family's convenience in Brookside Cemetery, Watertown.
Mr. Horr died Saturday morning at Upstate Medical University, Syracuse, where he had been a patient for 18 days.
There will be no calling hours. Arrangements are with Cleveland Funeral Home, Watertown.
Mr. Horr worked at the Bank of New York, New York City, from 1952 until returning to Watertown in 1955. He then became secretary and treasurer of the Agricultural Insurance Co., and at the same time was also president of Hungerford-Holbrook Printing Co., a subsidiary of Agricultural Insurance Co., from 1955 to 1965.
In 1965, he became vice president of Jefferson County Savings Bank, Watertown, which later became Community Savings Bank. He was promoted to chairman of the board in 1971 and worked in that capacity until 1976.
He purchased Greenwood Buick, Watertown in 1976 and operated the business until selling it upon his retirement in 1989.
Born Aug. 12, 1927, in Watertown, son of Robert G. Sr. and Agnes Gamble Horr, he attended the Northwood School, Lake Placid, and graduated from the Berkshire School, Sheffield, Mass. He was also a graduate of Dartmouth College, Hanover, N.H., and of the Babson Institute of Business Administration, Wellesley Hills, Mass.
An Army veteran, he served from 1946 to 1948 with the mountain infantry at Camp Carson and Camp Hale, Colo.
He married Dorothy L. Porter on Oct. 26, 1955, in Westminster Presbyterian Church, Nashville, Tenn., with the Rev. Armand L. Currie officiating.
Mr. Horr was a member of Sackets Harbor United Presbyterian Church, the Brookside Cemetery Association Board of Trustees and the Hickory Point Club. He had also been a member of the North Country Community Foundation Board since 1982 and was its past vice chairman and president. He was a former member and past president of the Black River Valley Club, Watertown, a former member and past commander of the Crescent Yacht Club, Chaumont, a former member and the 1970 treasurer of the House of the Good Samaritan board of trustees and a former member and the 1976 president of the Samaritan Keep Home Board of Trustees, both in Watertown.
From 1954 to 1975, he served on the Hounsfield (now Sackets Harbor) Central School Board of Education and was its president for two non-consecutive years, and he was part of the Thousand Island Bridge Authority board from 1971 to 1993, serving as its secretary, treasurer and vice chairman over those years.
Surviving besides his wife are three sons, Robert G. III and William P., both of Sackets Harbor, and John W., Glen Park; two sisters, Mary Foster, East Greenbush, and Agnes Josephine Allen, Amherst, N.H.; six grandchildren, and several nieces and nephews.
In Mr. Horr's memory, the Thousand Islands Bridge Authority will fly its flag at half-staff Tuesday.
Donations may be made to the North Country Community Foundation or the Sackets Harbor Ambulance Fund.
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