Andrew J. Horner, founding father of Premier Designs, has handed away.
Born in Belfast, Eire in 1924, Horner emigrated together with his household to Canada in 1930 and joined the Royal Canadian Navy in 1943. After marrying his highschool sweetheart, Joan Taylor, the 2 moved to Dallas, Texas in 1950. There, Horner attended evening college at SMU for 11 years and earned a level in enterprise in 1996. His administration profession included a number of positions for giant firms, together with direct promoting firm Residence Interiors and Items, the place he and spouse Joan labored alongside their buddy Mary Crowley for 17 years.
In 1985, Horner and spouse Joan based direct gross sales firm Premier Designs with the objective to offer encouragement and further revenue for single mothers, to supply a method for these in full-time ministry to fulfill their monetary wants, and to provide monetary assist to the various varied ministries during which they believed.
Horner held the title CSO, standing for Chief Servant Officer, and developed the corporate’s founding principal: Honor God and serve others. The corporate’s goal, Horner introduced, could be to counterpoint each life they touched.
Premier Designs turned a multimillion-dollar enterprise, incomes greater than $100 million in income yearly.
Horner is preceded in demise by spouse Joan Horner, and is survived by his second spouse Sarah Hemingway Horner, 5 kids, 14 grandchildren and two great-grandchildren.
