Judy Kay Hart Thorn 1945-2023

Posted Thursday, July 13, 2023 1:39 am

Services for Judy Kay Hart Thorn, 78, of Tyler were held at 2 p.m. Monday, July 10, 2023 at Wilson-Bartley Funeral Home, Alba, with Dr. Mark Neeley officiating.

Interment was in Pleasant Ridge Cemetery, Alba.

Mrs. Thorn passed away July 6, 2023 in Tyler. She was born Feb. 15, 1945, in Tyler to Wilford Glen and Myrtle Irene Herbert Hart. She married Buddy Thorn in Mineola on Sept. 19, 1964. Judy moved from Mineola to Tyler in 2012. She was a member of First Baptist Church, Mineola and Green Acres Baptist Church South, Flint. She was a schoolteacher for 24 years and was a child protective and elderly protective case worker.

She was preceded in death by her parents; stepfather, S.W. McInnis; and husband, Buddy Thorn.

Survivors include her two daughters, Kerri Sue Thorn of Alba and Kristi Huskey and husband Lance of Tyler; five grandchildren; six great-grandchildren; and numerous other relatives and friends.

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