Longtime Kaysville resident Jeannine Swaner Horne was born April 23, 1938 in Salt Lake City to Francis Carl Swaner and Edna Savage. She passed away Feb. 26, 2026 at McKay-Dee Hospital in Ogden, due to complications from the blood cancer MDS at the age of 87. She married Marvin Horne on March 31, 1961 in the Salt Lake Temple and they were happily married for nearly 65 years.

Jeannine grew up in Farmington, Utah and spent most of her childhood at home at Lagoon in the old Bamberger train station. Her father was Lagoon’s head gardener, and she grew to love the flowers. She had a great imagination and had many adventures in this setting. They raised goats and she would help tend to them including helping to bring them home when the midway at Lagoon caught fire in 1953. They also had dogs and other pets that she loved and included in some of her adventures.

She grew up in love with art and took up painting and photography. She has blessed many lives with her artistic talents although she would always say she wasn’t very good. There is no way to count all the pictures that she has taken of family and nature. She especially loved the mountains and enjoyed backcountry trips when Marvin would have to frequently stop for her to take pictures. Later pictures from trips and many of the family would become calendars that she gave out every Christmas to family.

She was blessed with great compassion and service and chose nursing as a career. As an RN she worked in San Francisco, St. Marks in Salt Lake, South Davis Hospital and then Lakeview where most of her career was spent. She did spend a short period of time doing home health and hospice care. Her compassion and love of family and others was always more important to her than taking care of herself. She also worked on The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Salt Lake Stake Church farm with the family. She truly tackled any kind of job with a work effort that she would give it her all. Her ability to care for injured animals was always amazing.

Mom’s faith as a member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints was the guiding light in her life. Over the years Mom had many callings in the Church. She taught Primary and Relief Society, was a cub scout leader for many years, and served in the library. She served three service missions with Marvin. One to Cove Fort where she took care of the flowers and cleaned artifacts and the grounds. The other mission was to Promontory Ranch where they watched for wildfires and did overall repairs and maintenance. The third mission was in the Joseph Smith Building where they served as hosts and guides. Mom loved being so near the Salt Lake Temple and being able to photograph and walk the grounds.

While serving at Promontory Ranch, Marvin and Jeannine became involved in the reenactment of the Golden Spike. This would keep them busy every weekend and holiday during the summer months. Mom would eventually take over the position as the telegraph operator. This continued for many years until the drive and standing became overwhelming.

Family was everything to Jeannine and always her priority. This love of family extended into family history as well. She spent many hours scanning pictures and documents and assembling them into memory books. These were then given to her children as birthday presents. They are priceless treasures. There were also many Fourth of July parties and Christmas parties for an ever-growing family. Many memories were created and centered around her.

Jeannine is survived by her husband Marvin Horne of Kaysville; children; Tammy Owens (Rodney) of Kaysville, Kent Horne (Kelly) of Syracuse, Carl Horne (Miranda) of Kaysville, Colette Mitchell of Kaysville, Joe Horne (Wendy) of Roy, Troy Horne of Kaysville, and foster son Dave McClure of Bountiful. She had 15 grandchildren, six foster grandchildren, and six step grandchildren; she also had 17 great grandchildren, seven foster great grandchildren, and four step great grandchildren. She has been proceeded in death by her parents Carl and Edna Swaner, her sister June, brother Laddie, first grandson James “Jimmy” Dee Hamblin in 1982 and step grandson Dane Kartchner in 2003.

Funeral services will be held Friday, March 6, 2026 at 11 a.m. at the Burton Lane Ward, 270 W. Burton Lane, Kaysville, Utah. Family and friends may visit Thursday from 6 to 8 p.m. at Lindquist’s Kaysville Mortuary, 400 N. Main St., Kaysville, Utah and Friday from 9:30 to 10:30 a.m. at the church prior to the service.

Interment will be held at the Kaysville City Cemetery.