Age 88, Lawton - Services will be at 2:00pm Friday at Northwest Church of Christ with Monte Ginnings, Minister and Harold McRay, Retired Minister officiating. Mr. Hornbeck died Wednesday in a Lawton hospital. Entombment with Military Honors will be the Chapel of Peace Mausoleum at Sunset Memorial Gardens under the direction of Becker Funeral Home. The family will receive friends Thursday evening at the funeral home from 7pm until 9pm. He was born September 30, 1920 in Blackwell, Oklahoma to Robert George and Lena May (Ransom) Hornbeck. As a young boy he became interested in amateur radio and operated his own station, W5HXS. He became a Christian under the influence of his mother. He graduated from Blackwell High School and attended Northern Oklahoma College, where his college years were interrupted by WW II. In the Fall of 1940 he was called to active duty with the 45th Division. He later attended the Officer Communication Course at Fort Sill. He spent fourteen months as an instructor in the Communications Department. After the war he returned to Fort Sill, where he was employed as a civilian instructor and spent twenty years teaching and writing instructional material in the Artillery Radio Maintenance Branch. He also owned and operated Lawton Radio and Television School, a night school which taught radio and television repair. It was during this time that he developed a special system of teaching electronics that was later adopted by Duncan High School, Lawton High School, Eisenhower High School and Draughon's Business Colleges in Oklahoma City and Fort Worth, Texas. Seven years prior to his retirement, in August of 1975, Hornbeck was employed by Fort Sill's Television Division Department of Instruction. He made training tapes for the Army. After retirement he was employed by Lawton High School as an electronics teacher in the Vocational Department, using the same electronic teaching system that he had sold to LHS ten years prior. He later gave up his full time teaching position to teach night classes in electronics at Cameron University. After his retirement he took an extended tour of the Bible Lands, Greece, Turkey, Egypt and Palestine. From his inspirations and love of the Bible, he developed a series of Bible workbooks, called "Christ of the Old Testament (Vols. 1 & 2) and "Christ of the New Testament (Vols. 3 - 7). He married his first wife Evelyn Gaskins on February 2, 1946. She died January 29, 1976. He then married Fay Adair on June 4, 1977. She died December 6, 2007. He is currently married to Darline Bridges Hornbeck. They were married on March 28, 2009 in Lawton. From 1954 to present he was a member of the Northwest Church of Christ where he was Deacon, Elder and Bible School Teacher. He is survived by his wife Darline Bridges Hornbeck of the home, two daughters, Jan Forsse and husband Ken of Dana Point, CA, Jill Melrose and husband Bruce of Lawton, OK, three grandchildren, Jessica Santos, Michael Santos and Sara Melrose all of Lawton, OK, three great grandchildren, Dillan, Kai and Kiana, step-son Larry Adair and wife Stephanie of Lawton, two step-grandsons, Wade Adair and wife Kristin of San Antonio, TX, Blaine Adair of Lawton, OK, step-great granddaughter Karleigh Adair, Step-son George Bridges, wife Linda and their families of Lawton, OK, step-daughter Donna Waller and husband Larry and their families of Lake City, CO, special friend Audray Hankins of Lawton and numerous other relatives and friends. He was preceded in death by a son, Bobby Hornbeck. Memorial contributions may be made to the "Back to the Bible Campaign "at Northwest Church of Christ.