Dollie L. Horton

January 24, 1932 - March 17, 2019

Dollie Lorene Middleton Horton, 87, was called to be with the Lord on Saturday, March 16, 2019. Visitation will be on Friday, March 22, 2019, from 4:00 – 8:00 p.m. at Ford Funeral Services, 305 South Sooner Road, Midwest City, Oklahoma. A memorial service honoring Dollie’s life will be held at 10:00 a.m., at Sunnylane Family Church, 4221 SE 41st Street, Del City, Oklahoma, Pastor Frank Wiley officiating. A graveside service will be held at 1:00 p.m. at Sunnylane Cemetery, 4000 SE 29th Street, Del City, Oklahoma. Dollie was born on January 24, 1932, in Mountain Grove, Missouri. She married her best friend, Everett Leland Horton, on November 22, 1950. She worked side by side with him as he pastored churches in Missouri, Iowa, and Oklahoma. Her passion was always working with children. “The hand that rocks the cradle is the hand that rules the world,” could be said of Dollie. She invested herself, her time, and her talents into caring for hundreds of little ones who would grow up to change the world. She is preceded in death by her parents, William and Anna B. Middleton, her eleven siblings, and her grandson Kendall Pate. She leaves behind the family she loved so well: her husband of 69 years Everett Leland Horton; son Robert and his wife Ann of Bryan, Texas, and their daughter Sara; daughter Nancy, and her husband Chuck Freeland of Sherrod, Illinois, and their children David (wife Stephanie and their sons Luke, Nathan, and Charles) and Lori Coffman (husband Jason Coffman and their daughters Sydney and Elyse); daughter Janet and her husband Gary Flowers of Jones, Oklahoma, and their children Bryan (son Tanner) and Kirk (wife Emily); and daughter Beth LaFever of Moore, Oklahoma, and son Forrest Pate (wife Bethany) and Riley Pate and his fiancé Bridgette Simpson. Dollie’s children would like to express their love and thanks to their dad Leland Horton for his unwavering dedication to their mom. His love was evident and modeled before them daily, as he drove to visit her and tended to her every need, feeding her each meal, and then driving back to gently tuck her into bed at night. In lieu of flowers, the family suggests and appreciates donations to two organizations that minister to the children she loved so much: Sunnylane Family Church Children’s Ministry, 4221 SE 41st Street, Del City, OK 73115, and SHIP (Shelter the Homeless International Projects in Texas and El Salvador, Central America), P O Box 3003, Bryan, TX 77805, www.SHIPinternational.org. Please leave online condolences and your memories of Dollie at https://www.fordfuneral.com/obituaries/Dollie-Horton/. Her children rise up and call her blessed; her husband also, and he praises her: Many women have done excellently, but you surpass them all. Charm is deceitful and beauty is vain, but a woman who fears the Lord is to be praised. Give her of the fruit of her hands, and let her works praise her in the gates. Proverbs 31:29-31