HORTON, William G. William G. Horton, 88, of Roswell died peacefully November 17, 2016 in the presence of his family. He was born on April 27, 1928 in Shelburne, Ontario to Dr. and Mrs. Charles B. Horton. The family emigrated to Rochester, NY when Dr. Horton sought further professional training. Subsequent moves took them to New York City; Meriden and Wethersfield, CT; Dayton, OH; and again to New York. Bill graduated from Columbia College in 1950 and from Meadville-Lombard Theological School, a part of the University of Chicago, in 1954. He served Unitarian churches in Trenton, NJ; Edmonton, Alberta; Danbury, CT; and Springfield, MA. While teaching religion and philosophy at Springfield College, he completed a master's in student personnel work. In 1968 he and his family moved to Alfred, NY, where he was an administrator at the State University Agricultural and Technical College until his retirement in 1992. During this period he completed course work for a degree in higher education at the University of Buffalo. His basic curiosity and his concentrations in physics and math at Columbia impelled him to teach himself computer programming, which led to a decade of work with a colleague at the State University, writing software for an educational publishing company. He was the enthusiastic camper who persuaded his family to rough it in Banff, northern Ontario, Nova Scotia, and in coast-to-coast trips in the U.S. Bears, black flies, raccoons, and Stone Soup are part of the family lore about these expeditions. He and his family were hosts to students from France, Ghana, Germany, Hong Kong, and Botswana, and he and his wife enjoyed visiting friends and family in England and Scotland, joining a study tour of Greece, and traveling in Spain, Switzerland, France, and Italy with their two oldest grandsons. During his pastorate in Trenton he worked on civil rights issues with Quaker friends and helped protect the first black family to move into Levittown, PA in 1955. In Edmonton, he was instrumental in founding the Canadian Committee for a Sane Nuclear Policy. In Springfield he marched with those who were protesting police brutality in the black community. In Alfred, he joined students who were protesting the shootings at Kent State and demonstrated weekly against the first Iraq war. In retirement he volunteered in New York state prisons with the Alternatives to Violence Project, a program founded by Quakers and inmates, and tutored Chinese and Vietnamese students and refugees who were learning English as a second language. He joined the Unitarian Universalist Metro Atlanta North congregation (UUMAN) in Roswell in 1997, where he served at various times as chair of the worship committee, the music committee, and member of the board. He deeply cherished singing in the UUMAN choir. He greatly enjoyed and loved his family. He and his wife relished the adventures of raising their children on 60 acres of land outside Alfred. There was room for a goose, a horse, several litters of Norwegian elkhounds, chickens, and a goat. He loved hiking over the hill to work, he scrambled through deep brush to help his children corral their lambs for the county fair, and loved gardening in all its forms. His sister, Katharine Horton Borst, died in 1969, and his eldest child, Carol Horton Luffel of Alpharetta, died in 1997. He leaves his wife of 62 years, Diantha White Horton; his daughter Laurie Foote and her husband Bruce of East Greenbush, NY; his son David Horton of Vinings, GA; his niece Lynne Borst Kolaya, her husband Scott, and their son Drew of Latham, NY; his brother-in-law Peter Borst, his wife Elizabeth, and their son Kurt of Whitestone, NY; his sister-in-law Patricia White of Victoria, BC; close family Grace, David, Bonnie, Peter, and Annabelle Luffel of Alpharetta, and a large circle of loving friends. He also leaves grandchildren Mark Luffel and his wife Diana Ascarrunz of Austin, TX; Paul Luffel and his wife Logan of Hawaii; T.J. Foote of East Greenbush, NY; Libby Foote of Troy, NY; Jedidiah Foote of Rensselaer, NY; and Elianna Foote of East Greenbush, NY; his great-grandsons Leighton Foote and Kai Soler and his great-granddaughter Adeline Luffel. He will long be remembered by family and friends as a kind, wise, thoughtful, courteous, and witty man who saw the world through a philosopher's eye. The ironies of life seldom escaped him, and his low-key, insightful sense of humor kept us all from taking ourselves too seriously. This sense of humor prevailed until the end, and eased his transition for all. His family and friends always felt loved and accepted by him and will miss him deeply. The family extends its heartfelt thanks to his caregiver during the last two and a half years, Barry Chabu, who gave Bill devoted and compassionate care. We are also grateful to the staff of Hospice Atlanta for their sensitive and caring work. The family plans a memorial service at the Unitarian Universalist Metro Atlanta North congregation, 11420 Crabapple Road, Roswell, GA at a time in the future. Gifts in memory of William Horton can be sent to the Unitarian Universalist Service Committee, P.O. Box 808, Newark, NJ, 07101-0808 ( www.uusc.org) or a . Arrangements by Medford-Peden Funeral Home.