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ObituariesDecember 21, 1997

CAIRO, Ill. -- George R. Hornberger Sr., 91, of Cairo died Saturday, Dec. 20, 1997, at Southeast Missouri Hospital in Cape Girardeau. He was born Sept. 23, 1906, in Cache, son of George and Eva Strickland Hornberger. He was a member of St. Patrick's Catholic Church at Cairo and the Cairo Knights of Columbus...

CAIRO, Ill. -- George R. Hornberger Sr., 91, of Cairo died Saturday, Dec. 20, 1997, at Southeast Missouri Hospital in Cape Girardeau.

He was born Sept. 23, 1906, in Cache, son of George and Eva Strickland Hornberger.

He was a member of St. Patrick's Catholic Church at Cairo and the Cairo Knights of Columbus.

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He is survived by his wife, Helen Hornberger of Cairo; sons, George Roy Hornberger Jr. and David A. Hornberger, both of Cairo; a daughter, Louise Tucker of Huntsville, Ala.; a brother, Bill Hornberger, of Cairo; and a number of grandchildren and great-grandchildren.

Graveside service will be held at 11 a.m. Tuesday at Green Lawn Memorial Gardens in Villa Ridge, with the Rev. Jerome Fortenberry officiating. Interment will follow.

Visitation is for family only. Friends are asked to go directly to the cemetery.

Barkett Funeral Home in Cairo is in charge of arrangements.

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