Janine Marie Horner, 75, of Delmont

A Celebration of Janine's Life will be 2 PM, Friday, December 22, 2023 at the United Methodist Church in Wagner, SD. Inurnment will be in the ZCBJ Cemetery in Wagner. Visitation will be held from 1 to 2 PM prior to service Friday at the church.

Janine "Jan" Marie (Dutro) Horner flew home to Heaven on December 12, 2023 from the Menno-Olivet Care Center in Menno, SD. She was born May 30, 1948 in Tacoma, WA to Howard and Helen Ruth (Tennent) Dutro. She and her little brother Steve grew up in mining camps all over the country due to her father's career of geological engineering. They were always the new kids in town, but it led to a lifetime of adventurous memories.

Jan graduated high school in Denver, CO. Then, while working at Terrametrics, went on to Barnes Business College in Denver for stenography.

In December of 1968, her life changed as she fell quickly in love with Dan, (but always joked it was his sports car) and they married October 18, 1969 in Denver, CO. They enjoyed 54 years together. To this union one daughter, Bethany was born.

Jan worked as a court reporter in Denver and the surrounding area before moving to Delmont, SD with her husband and daughter in 1980. She continued to work as a freelance court reporter, and together with Dan owned and operated Horner Office Equipment where she sold computers and taught people how to use them.

She and Dan enjoyed street racing in Denver in their sports cars, camping in the Rocky Mountains, restoring the house they lived in, spending time with family and going to Sturgis.

Her hobbies included making stained glass windows, refinishing furniture, building family trees on Ancestry and talking on the phone to her daughter.

She will long be remembered for being detailed and precise, immensely intelligent, yet kind and compassionate to everyone she met.

Thankful for having shared her life are her husband Dan Horner of Delmont; daughter Bethany Erck of Centerville; grandchildren: Chance Erck, Cade Erck and Shalita Bartlett; great grandson Jaxon; brother and sisters-in-law: Steve and Pinky Horner, Willa Kindt and Lisa Knight; and several nieces and nephews.

Jan was preceded in death by her parents; mother and father-in-law, Glenn and Inez Horner; brother Steven Tennent Dutro; son-in-law Robert Erck; nephew Clay Noll Dutro; and great nieces, Tallan and Savanna.

Special thanks to Delmont Volunteer Fire Department, Armour Ambulance, Armour Hospital, the Parkston Hospital, the Menno Ambulance and especially to the people who cared for her at the Menno-Olivet Care Center.  The love, compassion, dignity and grace she received did not go unnoticed.  We as her family are forever grateful.

Fly free sweet soul from

life's cares and woes.

You have done your part.

You gave life to the earthly form

who lives within our heart.

Fly on and solve the grand mystery

of what comes when

life is through.

And when at last our time has come

then we will fly to you.

- Dan Horner