Title	Mrs.
Last Name	Horton
First Name	Eugenia
Middle Name	S.
Maiden Name	Swanton
Nick Name
Place of Birth	Dexter, ME
Date of Birth	1916-07-30
Place of Death
Date of Death	2013-05-03
Publication	Eastern Gazette May 10-16,2013 pg 12
Obituary	EUGENIA S. HORTON DEXTER and WATERFORD - Eugenia Swanton Horton slipped away to be with her beloved husband, Bob on May 3, 2013. She was born in Dexter on July 30, 1916 to George Eugene Swanton and Alice May Larrabee, the second of two children. Genie graduated from N. H. Fay High School in 1934 and from Farmington Normal School in 1938. During the depression years she taught in elementary schools in Garland, Woolwich, Bath and Otisfield. She loved to tell stories about the one-room schools where she would teach all 8 grades, often only one child per grade. Sometimes the younge8t child would be only 4 because both parents needed to work. On July 4, 1945, she married Clarence Eugene ‘Bob’ Horton in Otisfleld, in what they laughingly called their “shotgun wedding” because a shotgun hung over the mantle piece and the festivities included a shooting match. They moved to New Haven, CT where Bob wrapped up his career as a research engineer for Winchester Arms. In 1946 they moved to Otis- field. Their daughter Jean was born in 1947, and in July of 1948 they moved to East Waterford to establish Horton Ballistics. Genie was a stay-at-home mother for the next 15 years, during which she was active in the North Waterford Congregational Church, choir, 4-H, The Rebekahs, civic events like canvassing for funds to build Stephens Memorial Hospital, and raising her child. 1 People will remember her as always singing or humming quietly, wherever she was. She loved music, reading, history, bird hunting, children, her family, and nature. A highlight of every spring was finding the first arbutus and the first lady slipper. The one thing in 1 nature she hated was snakes. Her daughter loved to catch them in their field and bring them to her. In good teacher fashion she would say, “Isn’t he beautiful? Now put him back where you found him so his mother can find him.” Jean remembers being in OHHS biology class before she realized that the snakes are on their own from hatching. It was Genie’s loving way of getting the creature away without passing on her own fears. In 1961 Genie decided to return to teaching. Over the next 8 years she taught and attended night and summer classes to earn her 4th year of college, by then required by Maine. She graduated from Gorham State College in 1969. She spent several happy years teaching 6th, 7th and 8th grades in Hebron; then moved to the Guy E. Rowe School in Norway, where she taught until she retired in 1981. She was proud to be a member of Delta Kappa Gamma. Genie was predeceased by her parents; and her brother, George Coakley’Swanton. She is survived by her daughter, Jean Eichhorn, of Nottingham, NH; her grandson Stephen Moore of Nottingham NH; her granddaughter Alice Brousseau and husband David; and two great granddaughters, Danika and Brynley Brousseau all of Barrington, NH. Because of good friends in Water- ford she was able to stay in her beloved home until she was 90. The family gives special thanks to Viola McAllister and Patricia Fournier who helped ma ke that happen. Thanks also go to the caring anf dedicated staff at the Ledgeview Living Center for making her feel loved and comfortable in her last yrs.