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Donna Mae Horn, 92, of Pleasant Walk Road, Wolfsville, passed away Tuesday, May 14, at Meritus Medical center. Born Jan. 3, 1921, at Wolfsville, she was the daughter of the late William G. and Orpha Wolfe Eccard. She was preceded in death by her first husband, Victor W. Buhrman, in 1978 and her second husband, William Harold Horn, in 1998. She was a member of Salem United Methodist Church, Wolfsville. She is survived by a son, Victor W. (Bill) Buhrman, two daughters, Andrea M. Palmer and Charlotte E. Wisner, all of Myersville; eight grandchildren, 12 great-grandchildren and six great-great- grandchildren.

Mary Amanda Ridge Horne, 69, of Hedgesville, W.Va., died Saturday, June 11, 2011, at her home.  The service and burial will be private. Arrangements are by Brown Funeral Home, Martinsburg, W.Va.   

J. Ann Horn, 56, of 181 Stanford Road, Hagerstown, Md., passed away after a long battle with an aggressive breast cancer on Oct. 23, 2011, at her home, surrounded by her family. Born Friday, Feb. 4, 1955, in Harrisburg, Pa., she was the daughter of the late Robert William Kistler and Audrey Yvonne (Lyons) Kistler. She graduated from Susquehanna Township High School, Harrisburg, in 1973, and later graduated from medical secretarial school in Hagerstown. She was employed at Stine, Davis & Peck Insurance until 2009, and, along with her husband, owned and operated Superior Dairy in Hagerstown from 1998 until the present.

Roxy Delores Horning, 79, of 344 Nottingham Road, Hagerstown, Md., passed away Wednesday, May 2, 2012, at Meritus Medical Center. Born Friday, Oct. 28, 1932, in Hagerstown, she was the daughter of the late Clarence Hartman and the late Elizabeth Ann Williams Hartman Hurd. She was formerly employed with Peoples Drug Store on West Franklin Street, Hagerstown, and at Salem Avenue Elementary School. Roxy was a loving wife, mother and grandmother who will be greatly missed. She is survived by her husband of 55 years, Clarence Melvin "Mel" Horning of Hagerstown; daughter, Cindy L. Keller and husband, Tim, of Chambersburg, Pa.; son, Melvin Scott Horning of Hagerstown; sister, Sandra Hartman of Berkeley Springs, W.Va.; brother, Nelson Hartman of Hagerstown; granddaughters, Ashley Weigand, Olivia Keller and Isabella Keller, and grandson, Joshua Barnes.

katec@herald-mail.com What did four Shepherd College music majors do with their summer vacation? They did not work jobs in construction or pizza parlors. They did not bask on beaches and work on their tans. But they worked - incredibly hard - and learned about music, their abilities and their passions. They sharpened their skills and their focus. Frank Gorecki, Angela Weadon, Adam Hanlin and David Shipley went the distance for their music - and then some. Shepherd has just a few more than 100 music majors.

Thelma Leona VanHorn, 75, of Hedgesville, W.Va., died Sunday, Sept. 5, 2010, at City Hospital. Visitation will be Wednesday from 7 to 9 p.m. at Brown Funeral Home, Martinsburg, W.Va. The service will be Thursday at 1 p.m. at Marlowe Assembly of God Church.

CHAMBERSBURG, Pa. - The acting executive director of the Letterkenny Industrial Development Authority had the "acting" removed from his title Monday by the authority's board of directors. John Van Horn, 41, of Chambersburg, was unanimously elected to lead the authority, succeeding Pam Gaudiose, who resigned in March to pursue other business interests. "John, in the minds of the Personnel Committee, has a tremendous grasp of where we want to go with LIDA," said Board Member John Redding, who headed up the selection process.

Yurish, Horn head to Australia By DAN SPEARS dans@herald-mail.com Former Martinsburg High quarterback Joey Yurish and current Musselman running back Ryan Horn are friends. They even hung out together on New Year's Eve. Good thing. They're going to be spending a lot more time around each other this summer. The two are part of an all-star football team for players from Maryland, Virginia and West Virginia that will participate in the 12th Annual Down Under Bowl series in Australia in June.

All right, when did Hagerstown decide it was going to turn into San Fermin, Spain? We had our own personal running of the bulls on Wednesday when four of these bovine banditos escaped from a livestock trailer on I-70 and led police on a wild beef chase. Something tells me that this isn't exactly what men and women have in mind when they sign up for the police academy to make our streets and communities a safer place. But when the escape occurred, the police were the ones who got the assignment.

By GUY FLETCHER Staff Writer Lamenting over the less-than-sparkling condition of his horns, Barry Tuckwell, perhaps the world's most famous French horn player, had a confession. "I've had a bad Brasso day," he said, prompting laughter from the audience at the Maryland Theatre. Officially, it was "Maestro Tuckwell Presents the Mysteries of the French Horn," but it could have been simply called Horn 101. For nearly an hour Friday afternoon, Tuckwell took his "students," more than 100 people who came for the free lunchtime program, through hundreds of years of horns and horn playing.