Marjorie Elsie Westerkamp and Houston Irvine Flournoy

HOUSTON IRVINE FLOURNOY, son of HELEN HORNER and WILLIAM RAYMOND FLOURNOY, was born October 7, 1929 in New York, Manhattan, New York,¹²⁹⁵⁶ and died January 7, 2008 in California.¹²⁹⁵⁹

He married MARJORIE ELSIE WESTERKAMP on July 11, 1954 in Denver, Denver, Colorado.¹⁰⁸¹⁵ She was born June 19, 1929,⁵⁶ and died April 3, 2007.⁵⁶

Houston I. Flournoy

• was a US Air Force Veteran of the Korean War; was an intelligence officer¹²⁹⁵⁹
• was California state controller and three-term California Assemblyman¹²⁹⁵⁹

Rocky Mountain News, January 7, 1953¹²⁹⁶²

Mrs. Jessie Ramey recently announced the engagement of her daughter, Miss Marjorie Westerkamp, to Lt. Houston Flournoy, son of Mr. and Mrs. William Raymond Flournoy of Ossining and Pleasantville, N. Y. The bride-elect is a graduate of Colorado State College of Education where she was a member of Delta Sigma Epsilon sorority.

Daily Press, January 9, 2008¹²⁹⁵⁹

Former State Assemblyman, Houston Flournoy, Dies

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Houston I. Flournoy, a Republican who lost to Jerry Brown in the 1974 California gubernatorial election, has died. He was 78.

Flournoy died Monday afternoon of heart failure while flying on a private plane from San Diego to Santa Rosa, according to his son, David Flournoy. The elder Flournoy had suffered for years from emphysema, his son said.

Before running for governor, Flournoy served three two-year terms in the state Assembly starting n 1960. He was elected to the first of two terms as state controller in 1966, defeating Democrat Alan Cranston, who went on to become a U.S. senator.

In the 1974 gubernatorial race, Flournoy won 47.3 percent of the vote, to 50.2 percent for Brown. The Republican blamed the loss on public backlash to President Gerald Ford's pardon of ex-President Richard Nixon and a shortage of campaign money.

Born in New York on Oct. 7, 1929, Flournoy earned a bachelor's degree from Cornell University and a doctorate in government from Princeton, then served in the Air Force during the Korean War as an intelligence officer.