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Amelia Narcissa Sykora Horn
28 Jan 1900 – 4 May 1995
| Birth | 28 Jan 1900 |
| Death | 4 May 1995 |
| Cemetery | Grace Hill Cemetery Perry , Noble County , Oklahoma , USA |
| Added by | Andrea Thompson Bevernitz on 06 Mar 2023 |
| FaG | https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/36846166 |
Bio
Amelia Narcissa Sykora was born January 28, 1900 two miles east of the Bohemian Hall on a farm claimed by her father in the September 16, 1893 land run. She was the youngest of three children born to Frank and Lizzie Sykora, both of whom were born in the Austria-Hungarian Empire (now Czechoslovakia) and immigrated to the United States in 1888. They crossed the Atlantic on the same ship, arrived at Ellis Island and met and married in California before moving to Oklahoma. Amelia grew up in a two-room house her father built on the 160 acres of land that he had claimed. Amelia attended grades 1 through 8 at one-room Rose Hill School which was located one mile distant from the family farmstead. That school is now located at the Cherokee Strip Museum on West Fir Avenue in Perry, OK. She married Andrew Horn on May 5, 1924. They lived on a farm in the Ceres community, within a few miles of where each of them had grown up. They enjoyed socializing with their extended family. most of whom lived nearby. After their daughters had married and moved away, they returned often to visit. Their grandchildren spent weeks in the summertime on the farm with them. They were active in the Ceres Christian Church. Andy grew wheat, oats and other crops to sell and feed their livestock and Amelia and the children sometimes joined him in shocking the wheat and oats. She grew flowers for the beauty and vegetables for meals. She raised chickens to feed the family and sold some of the eggs to a grocer in town for cash or exchanged them for staples like sugar and white flour. Their first child, Marcella Jean, was born in 1925, the second Marjorie Loraine, was born in 1926. Amelia lived her entire life within a 12 mile radius in Noble County; in her childhood home, the house on the farm along Red Rock Creek in Ceres and lastly in the home she and Andrew bought in the 1960's, in Perry on Cedar Street Amelia especially was very pleased, and relieved, to have a modern home, one with running water, gas heaters and modern appliances. Until they moved into town they had always pumped and carried water from their well, burned wood for heating and cooking and used and maintained an outhouse. After the move into town Andrew drove from Perry to Ceres many times a week as he continued to farm for several years. Preceding Amelia in death were her husband Andrew and her daughter, Marjorie Loraine McChristy Grasser and her siblings, Anna Schultz and William Sykora. Survivors included her daughter Marcella Jean Horn Thompson of Fayetteville, AR, six grandchildren and 11 great-grandchildren.
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Married May. 5, 1924
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