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Gilmore HORNBERGER

Gilmore HORNBERGER

Male 1922 - 2003  (81 years)

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  • Name Gilmore HORNBERGER 
    Birth 27 Jul 1922  Fort Worth, Tarrant, Texas, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  [1, 2, 3, 4, 5
    • at 11:15 a.m., 325 S. Henderson
    Gender Male 
    Also Known As Gil 
    Census 9 May 1930  Fort Worth, Tarrant, Texas, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  [5
    • 325 N. Henderson
    Residence 1 Apr 1935  Fort Worth, Tarrant, Texas, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  [6
    Census 13 Apr 1940  Dallas, Dallas, Texas, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  [6
    • 5200 Victor
    Residence 25 Jun 1991  Burleson, Johnson, Texas, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  [7
    Residence 11 Sep 2003  Wilmington, New Hanover, North Carolina, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  [1, 8
    Occupation Service Station Attendant 
    Occupation Support Officer - Central Intelligence Agency 
    Military PFC Gilmore Hornberger, 27th Marines, 5th Marine Division, participated in the assault on Iwo Jima, Japan, 19 Feb 1945 - 19 March 1945. Occupation Duty: Naval Base Sasabo Japan 1945. US Govt service from 1946-1972.  [7
    Death 11 Sep 2003  Marietta, Cobb, Georgia, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  [3, 4, 7, 8
    Burial Quantico National Cemetery, Quantico, Prince William, Virginia, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  [7
    • Plot: Section 3A Site 620; GPS Latitude: 38.54079, Longitude: -77.35825
    Person ID I13160  Dyal and Speckels
    Last Modified 18 Feb 2018 

    Father Otto George HORNBERGER,   b. 14 Sep 1888, Austin, Travis, Texas, USA Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 24 Feb 1958, Fort Worth, Tarrant, Texas, USA Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 69 years) 
    Mother Harvie Irene PHILLIPS,   b. 30 Nov 1891, Llano, Llano, Texas, USA Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 13 Feb 1965, Fort Worth, Tarrant, Texas, USA Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 73 years) 
    Marriage 13 Nov 1913  Austin, Travis, Texas, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  [9, 10
    Family ID F8801  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

    Family Emma Lee DAVIS,   b. 2 Apr 1925, Fort Worth, Tarrant, Texas, USA Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 25 Jun 1991, Fort Worth, Tarrant, Texas, USA Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 66 years) 
    Marriage 31 Dec 1946  Washington, District of Columbia, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  [11, 12
    Children 
     1. Living
    +2. Living
    +3. Living
    Photos
    Lee and Gil Hornberger, late 1940s
    Lee and Gil Hornberger, late 1940s
    Gilbert and Lee Hornberger, Saigon, 1957
    Gilbert and Lee Hornberger, Saigon, 1957
    Gilbert and Lee Hornberger
    Gilbert and Lee Hornberger
    Family ID F9216  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
    Last Modified 1 Feb 2018 

  • Photos
    Gil Hornberger
    Gil Hornberger
    Gil and Susan Hornberger
    Gil and Susan Hornberger
    c.1932

    Headstones
    Hornberger, Gilmore
    Hornberger, Gilmore
    Plot: Section 3A Site 620

  • Notes 
    • Description: Gil Hornberger's Obit.

      Gilmore Hornberger, 81 years old, of Wilmington, NC, died Thursday, September 11, 2003 at the Kennestone Hospital in Marietta, Georgia after a short illness.

      He was born July 27, 1922 in Ft Worth, Texas, son of late Otto George Hornberger and Harvie Phillips Hornberger.

      Mr. Hornberger served in the United States Marine Corps during WWII, having participated in the assault on Iwo Jima as a member of the 27th Marines of the 5th Marine Division. He became a career Support Officer of the Central intelligence Agency. He served from the Agency’s inception in 1947 until his retirement in 1971, having served in numerous overseas posts, Taiwan, Vietnam, Pakistan, and Australia during the 1950s and 60’s and 70’s.

      Those who knew and loved will remember his laughter, his whistle, his endless optimism, and his love of life. He possessed an inherent curiosity of every culture he saw and every person he met.

      Burial arrangements will be made in Wilmington, NC. He will be laid to rest with his wife of 46 years, Lee Hornberger. Both have been since relocated side by side at the Quantico National Cemetery, Quantico, VA. [13]

  • Sources 
    1. [S82] Ancestry.com, U.S., Social Security Death Index, 1935-2014, (Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2011), Number: 465-18-2123;Issue State: Texas;Issue Date: Before 1951.

    2. [S220] Ancestry.com, Texas Birth Certificates, 1903–1932, (Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2013), File No. 41183.

    3. [S1635] Ancestry.com, Beneficiary Identification Records Locator Subsystem (BIRLS) Death File, (Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2011).

    4. [S2376] Ancestry.com, Social Security Applications and Claims, 1936-2007, (Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2015).

    5. [S15] United States of America, Bureau of the Census, Fifteenth Census of the United States, 1930, Tarrant County, Texas, ED 18, p. 29A, line 13.

    6. [S1629] United States of America, Bureau of the Census, Sixteenth Census of the United States, 1940, Dallas County, Texas, ED 255-56, p. 9A, line 34.

    7. [S3029] Find A Grave, Quantico National Cemetery, Quantico, Prince William County, Virginia, USA, 1 Feb 2018.

    8. [S334] Source Vendor: North Carolina State Center for Health Statistics.

    9. [S370] ed., Alma von Rosenberg Tomlinson, The von Rosenberg Family of Texas, (Toepperwein Publishing Co. (Boerne, TX, 1949); reprint: Nortex Press (n.p., 1986)), p. 44.

    10. [S1315] FamilySearch, Texas, Marriages, 1837-1973, Source film: 978172.

    11. [S371] ed., Charles Wilburn von Rosenberg, The Von Rosenberg Family Record, (Texian Press (Waco, TX, 1974)), p. 76.

    12. [S2465] Ancestry.com, District of Columbia, Marriages, 1830-1921, (Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc, 2014), Film Number: 002319887.

    13. [S3056] Steve Hornberger, Proposed Change: Gilmore HORNBERGER (I13160).