Lucille Howard (Payne)
Lucille Howard (Payne) Horn of Missouri City, Texas, died while in hospice care on Oct. 16, 2020. She was 86.
Memorial services were delayed due to the COVID pandemic.
A memorial service is scheduled for 2 p.m. on Sept. 4, 2021, at First Presbyterian Church in Welsh. All are welcome.
Lucille was born in Lake Charles to Elizabeth Fort Howard and John McCormick Howard and was the eldest of three children. Lucille, John Robert, Carolyn and their spouses maintained a close relationship throughout their lives that fostered lasting relationships among their own children, “the cousins.”
Lucille graduated from Louisiana Tech University in Ruston in 1955, with a degree in home economics. While on school vacation, she met Quentin Payne, a Presbyterian minister; they married in 1955. During their marriage, the couple lived in Welsh and in Wichita Falls, San Antonio, Lufkin and Houston, Texas.
While in Lufkin, Lucille began teaching junior-high students, first mathematics and later physical science. In 1976, Lucille and Quentin moved to Houston, where Lucille taught home economics at Alief Hastings High School until she retired.
Lucille taught sewing, cooking and nutrition classes and was a faculty mentor and leader for the Family, Career and Community Leaders of America (FCCLA), formerly known as Future Homemakers of America. Lucille’s hobby was sewing and she lovingly made many of her daughters’ clothes.
In 1993, Quentin died. Lucille joined a grief group at Grace Presbyterian Church and there met Charlie Horn and they married in 1995. Lucille and Charlie enjoyed visiting and entertaining their friends and family, traveling, attending seminars, bowling and attending church services. The two were love birds from the beginning until the end. All are saddened with this loss but happy that she will join our heavenly Father in everlasting peace.
Lucille is survived by her elder daughter and son-in-law, Kathryn and Roy Lee Beller of Wingdale, N.Y.; her younger daughter, Deborah “Debs” Payne of Lakewood, Colo.; her stepchildren, Fred Horn of Northridge, Calif., Ken Horn of Houston, Texas, and Audrey and her husband Mark Kimpler of Richmond, Texas; her grandchildren, Elizabeth Ann and her husband, Adam Staryak, Charles Beller and his wife, Alexandra Rossetti, Margaret Beller, and John Beller; her stepgrandchildren, Jordan Kimpler Witmer and her husband Chris Witmer, and Gregory Kimpler; her brother and his wife, John Robert and Elizabeth Howard of Framingham, Mass.; and her sister and her husband, Carolyn and Kenneth Daniel of Welsh.
Lucille was preceded in death by her first husband, Rev. M. Quentin Payne, and her second husband, Charles “Charlie” Forest Horn.
In lieu of flowers, donations may be made to Family, Career and Community Leaders of America (FCCLA) https://fcclainc.org/donate. Condolences should be sent to Debs Payne, 2408 South Holland Court, Lakewood, CO 80227.