Horace M. Madsen, 88, died Tuesday, December 27, 1994 at a local care center of heart failure.

He was born May 27, 1906 in Monroe, Utah, a son of Hyrum M. and Emma Sarah Goold Madsen. He married Helen Ramsay. They were later divorced. He married Marie Bouwhuis Clarke on November 27, 1971 in Ogden. He was raised and educated in Monroe, Utah, graduating from South Sevier High School. He lived in Salt Lake City for 10 years and in Ogden for 33 years. He was a lifelong member of the LDS Church, and was a High Priest and home teacher in the Monroe Park 1st Ward. Mr. Madsen worked for Western Creamery Company in Monroe, Utah. He also worked for Telluride Power Company in Richfield, Utah and had been a farmer. He retired from the State of Utah where he had been a guard at the Capitol Building. He enjoyed playing basketball, hunting and traveling.Surviving are his wife, Ogden; one son, Bert and Karma Madsen, Monroe, Utah; one step-son and one stepdaughter, Melvin R. and Joan Clarke, Eden; Marilyn Clarke, Ogden; seven grandchildren and 16 great-grandchildren; also surviving are one brother, Fred Goold and Vandyne Madsen, Monroe, Utah; one foster brother, Bert and Louise Caseman, Atlanta, Georgia. He was preceded in death by his parents, one brother, Goold Madsen and two sons, Carl Madsen and James Madsen.

Funeral services Friday at 11 a.m. at the Monroe Park 1st Ward Chapel, 2873 Quincy Avenue, Ogden. Friends may call at Lindquist's Ogden Mortuary, 3408 Washington Blvd., Thursday from 6 to 8 p.m. and Friday at the Ward Chapel 9:45 to 10:45 a.m. Interment will be held Saturday at 12 noon at the Monroe Cemetery, Monroe, Utah.

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