Kip E. Horton

WEST CARTHAGE — Kip E. Horton, 53, of 40 High St., was pronounced dead Thursday in his hotel room at Saranac Lake of an apparent suicide.

After his military service Mr. Horton worked for St. Regis and Champion International paper mills as a bleach plant operator.

Born May 29, 1955, in Watertown, son of George M. and Elizabeth Ackerman Horton, he graduated from high school in Newport, R.I., in 1974. He served with the Army from 1974 to 1977.

He married Karen M. Huff on Oct. 12, 1974, at St. Lucy's Church, Middletown, R.I.

He was a communicant of St. James Catholic Church, Carthage, and enjoyed reading, fishing and collecting antiques.

Surviving besides his wife and his mother, of Middletown, are a son, Marks G., and his companion, Emily Biccum, Watertown; three daughters and two sons-in-law, Hope E. Horton and Angela S. and Anthony Matthews, all of Watertown, and Melissa B. and Troy White, Italy; three sisters, Natalie Silvia and Sarah Amadon, both of Vermont, and Kelly Regan, Rhode Island; two brothers, Kim and Jay, both of Rhode Island, and seven grandchildren.

His father, George Marks Horton, died before him.

A funeral Mass will be said at 11 a.m. Thursday at St. James Catholic Church. Spring burial will be in Hillside Cemetery, Champion. Arrangements are with Bossuot-Lundy Funeral Home, Carthage. Donations may be made to Augustinian Academy, 317 West St., Carthage, N.Y. 13619, or the Salvation Army, www.salvationarmy.org or 723 State St., P.O. Box 298, Watertown, N.Y. 13601.