Amherst, Long-time Amherst resident, Jeanne Slocomb Dunn died April 24 at the Fisher Home in Amherst after a year-long coexistence with small cell cancer. She was seventy-eight.  

The daughter of a nationally known stunt pilot, Carl N. Dunn Jr, and a Powers model and interior designer, Jean Anderson Seagrove, she was born in 1939 in Fort Myers, Florida, and grew up in Bronxville, New York.  She attended St. Mary’s School in Raleigh, North Carolina, The University of Bridgeport in Connecticut graduating summa cum laude and the University of Massachusetts. She came to Amherst with her husband, United Airlines pilot Douglas Horne in 1978. 

While living in Croton-on-Hudson with her young family she was president of the Shakespeare Festival in 1967.She loved history and research and was the keeper of the family history and genealogy.

Her biography of and the family archives of her great grandmother, suffragist, political activist and writer Minona Stearns Fitts Jones are part of the Sophia Smith Collection at Smith College. In recent years she served as a Master Guide at Historic Deerfield Village, whose witty, informed tours were highly sought after. 

She was a lifelong advocate and activist for all people’s rights, an avid sports enthusiast and a fierce tennis player.  She followed the Olympics faithfully attending the summer Olympics in Montreal in 1976.

A guardian of family traditions and holidays, she was considered by family and others who knew her well as among the most spirited and intelligent people of their acquaintance. 

She leaves her sister, Diana Dunn Kallio of Amherst; her former husband, Douglas Horne of Miramar Beach, Florida; two daughters, Spring Horne of Miramar Beach, Florida, Alexis Horne and her husband Don Chapman of Sunderland; a nephew, Jon Kallio of North Leverett and a niece, Laura Kallio Neill of Amherst; three grandchildren, Nicholas Moscaratolo of Greenfield, Rose Moscaratolo of Greenfield, and McLellan White of Sunderland; and one grandnephew, Thomas Neill of Amherst. 

A memorial will be held on May 6^th at 2pm at the East Leverett Cemetery. The family will perform a wave cheer at her memorial service to celebrate her life and spirit. Donations may be made on her behalf to Hospice of The Fisher Home in Amherst, Tapestry, or the Southern Poverty Law Center.