Jacquelyn Sue Horton

The funeral for Jacquelyn Sue Horton, 41, of Ardmore will be at 11 a.m. today at Lindsay Lane Baptist Church with Mike Davis and Dusty McLemore officiating and Limestone Chapel Funeral Home directing.

The body will be at the church from 10 a.m. until the service.

A graveside service will be at 11 a.m. Wednesday at Mt. Herman Cemetery in Savannah, Tenn.

Mrs. Horton died Saturday, Aug. 22, 2009, at Huntsville Hospital.

Jacquelyn Sue Horton was born on July 12, 1968, in Savannah, Ga., to Charles and Eva Horton.

She was a member of Lindsay Lane Baptist Church, Secretary Association, Southern Baptist Convention, and led Angel Food Ministry at LLBC.

She was preceded in death by brother Charles Edward Horton; and sister, Carol Jane Smith; her grandparents, Dovie and John Horton, Georgia Inez Adams and Jesse D. Howle.

My sister, Sue Horton, enjoyed life. She thrived on life. The littlest things brought her such great joy. When my sister was happy, which was usually the case, her smile and laugh would light up the world!

She had the very unique ability to make everyone around her more loving, more caring, more patient, and more controlled. Her thirst for life made you and I want to live each day better than we were. My sister fought and struggled for the simple act of taking a breath. Something we take for granted every minute, every second, my sister fought to do. But she did it. Her strength and her passion for life that we all felt and saw are what will get us through this now. She has instilled in each of us her traits and even though we are sick and numb with pain now, those traits will shine through. She definitely took a piece of each of us with her, but what she left us in strength, in hope, in the will to live will get us through.

She is survived by her father, Charles Horton of Savannah, Tenn.; her mother, Eva Horton of Ardmore, Ala.; her sister, Jessica H. Gatewood and husband Preston of Athens; nephews and nieces, Cody Hargrove and Holly Hargrove, Amanda Jackson and Jory Jackson; great-niece and great-nephew, Anna Hargrove and James Hargrove.

Pallbearers will be Jory Jackson, David Jeanes Jr., Roger Bailey, Randy Brown, Mike Odom and Tom Pieplow. Honorary pallbearer is Blake Beshears.

In lieu of flowers, memorials may be made to Crohns and Colitis Foundation of America, Attention: Honor and Memorial Gifts, P. O. Box 1245, Albert Lea, Minn. 56007-9976.