Families of Lloyd Gibson Hornby

LLOYD GIBSON HORNBY, son of ALICE THERESA GIBSON and WALTER JAMES HORNBY, was born September 6, 1886 in Denmark, Lee, Iowa,⁴⁵⁶ and died August 21, 1937 in Clearwater National Forest, Idaho.⁴⁵⁶ He is buried in Conrad Memorial Cemetery, Kalispell, Flathead, Montana.^{456, 5382}

He married (1) MARION BURNS TARBELL on October 23, 1915 in Spokane, Spokane, Washington.⁶⁶²⁴

He married (2) MARGARET ELNA MILLER on May 29, 1930 in Kalispell, Flathead, Montana.⁴³³⁴ She was born June 6, 1897 in Kalispell, Flathead, Montana,¹³ and died September 24, 1995 in Palo Alto, Santa Clara, California.^{456, 56} She is memorialized at in Conrad Memorial Cemetery, Kalispell, Flathead, Montana.⁴⁵⁶ She married (2) Frank H. Richey January 30, 1955 in Santa Clara County, California.⁶⁹⁵¹

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  • Samuel Houston Descendant Report (Ancestor of Lloyd G. Hornby)

Children of MARGARET ELNA MILLER and LLOYD GIBSON HORNBY:

1. Daughter

Education

Marriage Announcements and News

St. Joseph Daily Press, October 25, 1915⁶⁶²⁵

MARRIAGE ANNOUNCED

Announcements were received today of the marriage of Miss Marion Burns Tarbell, older daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Frank Tarbell, to Lloyd Gibson Hornby. The wedding took place Saturday, October 23, in Spokane, Wash., and after a month's trip Mr. and Mrs. Hornby will be at home after December 1 at Priest River, Idaho.

The ceremony was performed by Rev. Mr. Short, pastor of the First Methodist church, at the parsonage. The bride wore a tailored suit of dark green chiffon broad cloth with fur trimmings and a hat of black velvet. They were unattended.

Miss Tarbell was a graduate of the State normal at Ypsilanti, and was one of St. Joseph's most popular young women. Mr. Hornby was graduated from the forestry department of the University of Michigan in the class of 1914, and for the past year has been in the west. The bride has been spending several months with her aunt in North Yakima, Wash.

Marriage Information

• Lloyd Gibson Hornby and Marion Burns Tarbell were divorced.⁴³³⁴

Obituaries

Daily Inter Lake, August 23, 1937⁵³⁸²

LLOYD G. HORNBY CLAIMED BY DEATH

Missoula, Aug. 23.—(Special)—Lloyd G. Hornby, in charge of fire control planning for all national forests in the United States, long stationed in Missoula at headquarters of Region No. 1 of the Forest Service, died unexpectedly of heart trouble Saturday night at the scene of the blaze in the Clearwater forest, 44 miles west of Lolo Hot Springs.

Mr. Hornby, working out of the western office of the Forest Service had gone to the fire in connection with research work he is doing in connection with the fire control planning campaign.

An ambulance is bringing the body to Missoula from the Clearwater wilderness. News of Mr. Hornby's death was received at headquarters here by telephone.

Mr. Hornby is survived by his widow, a son and a daughter. The home is at 413 Daly avenue.

Before being assigned to the fire control planning work, Mr. Hornby was silviculturist in Region No. 1.

Mr. Hornby was supervisor of the Flathead National forest from 1923 to 1930, when he was transferred to District No. 1 at Missoula, where he has since made his home.

During his residence here he made a host of friends who will greatly regret his untimely end.

Funeral services for Lloyd G. Hornby will be held Wednesday morning at 10 o'clock at the Episcopal church in Missoula after which the body will be brought to the Waggener & Campbell chapel at Kalispell. A brief service will be held at the chapel at 3:30 and interment will be made in the Conrad Memorial cemetery where the Masonic services will be conducted by Kalispell Lodge No. 42.

Daily Inter Lake, August 27, 1937⁵³⁸¹

OBITUARY

LLOYD G. HORNBY

Lloyd G. Hornby was born in Iowa on September 6, 1886, went to grammar school at Pasadena, Cal., and attended high school at Los Angeles, Pasadena and Ann Arbor, Mich. At Ann Arbor he entered the University of Michigan and completed a three-year course in civil engineering in two years. He became interested in forestry and received his master of science in forestry in 1915.

His first permanent appointment was as forestry assistant in the Flathead forest on January 7, 1916. He progressed upward and was appointed forest supervisor in June, 1919, for the Pen d'Oreille forest with headquarters at Sand Point, Idaho. In August, 1920, he was transferred to the Clearwater forest as supervisor. He went to the Flathead forest as supervisor in January, 1923. In November, 1930, he was appointed regional forest inspector at Missoula. He was assigned to the experiment station on September 1, 1931, to work on fire research and was engaged in that until his death.

Even as early as 1919, his superiors had noted his "exceptional originality in dealiing with new problems" as well as 'his special skill in outlining and carrying out methods of investigation.

In June, 1937, Mr. Hornby was transferred to the Washington office of fire control of the Forest Service to head the work of getting his methods into actual practice in all the national forests which have a fire problem. His family, composed of Mrs. Hornby, a son and daughter, remained in Missoula as he was to travel a good share of the time.

Surviving are his widow, Mrs. Margaret E. Hornby, a son, william, and a daughter, Ann. Also his mother, Mrs. Alice Hornby, one brother, Ralph, and a sister, Mrs. Ford Prior, all of Los Angeles.

Daily Inter Lake, September 26, 1995⁶⁹⁵²

Margaret Richey, 98

Margaret Miller Richey, 98, a Kalispell area native and daughter of a Flathead Valley's pioneer family, died Saturday at her home in Palo Alto, Calif.

She was the eldest daughter of Harry G. Miller who established Kalispell Lumber Co. in the 1890s.

She was raised in Kalispell and attended local schools. She graduated from Smith College with a B.A. in chemistry and received an M.A. from Columbia University. She taught school in Flathead County and worked as secretary for the dean of forestry at the University of Montana.

She married Lloyd G. Hornby, former superintendent of the Flathead National Forest and after his death, married Frank G. Richey, a California fishing company executive. She made her home in Palo Alto since 1942 but visited the Flathead area regularly and maintained business interests, including a part ownership in Kalispell Lumber Co. until recent years.

She was preceded in death by a brother, Gilbert A. Miller, of Kalispell.

She is survived by a daughter, a son, a sister, a brother, five grandchildren, and three great-grandchildren.

Cremation has taken place and a memorial service is planned for a future date.

Census Records

Date	Location	Enumerated Names
June 8, 1900761	Pasadena, Los Angeles, California	Walter James Hornby Alice Theresa Gibson Ralph Walter Hornby Lloyd Gibson Hornby Eleanor Frances Hornby Catherine Theresa Hornby
April 26, 1910352	San Gabriel, Los Angeles, California	Walter James Hornby Alice Theresa Gibson Lloyd Gibson Hornby Eleanor Frances Hornby Catherine Theresa Hornby
January 6, 19204486	Sandpoint, Bonner, Idaho	Lloyd Gibson Hornby Marion Burns Tarbell
April 26, 19304487	Kalispell, Flathead, Montana	Lloyd Gibson Hornby
April 17, 19405380	Missoula, Missoula, Montana	Margaret Elna Miller Daughter