Carrie Horne passed away on Thursday, August 21, 2025.

Funeral service will be held on Saturday, September 6, 2025 at 2:00 p.m. at the Chapel of Lakeview Memorial Park, 3600 O'Henry Boulevard, Greensboro, NC 27405. Visitation will be held prior at 1:30 p.m.

Burial will follow in the Cemetery.

The oldest of three siblings, Carrie Taylor Horne was born in New York, New York on February 11, 1947 to the late Walter Jasper Taylor and the late Bettie Perry Taylor. She attended Stony Lawn Elementary School and Liberia School in Warren County, North Carolina. However, it was in her years at John R Hawkins High School that Carrie excelled in home economics and business education classes. She was a very good seamstress and even made her sister, Yvonne's, junior prom gown!

Carrie’s highest honor in high school came when her Business Education teacher selected Carrie and one other student to apply for the secretarial opening for the late lawyer Theaoseus Theoboyd Clayton, Sr. (his wife Eva Clayton in 1992 became the first African American congresswoman from NC).

In addition to being highly skilled in sewing and typing, Carrie enjoyed singing in the school glee club— people from all around came to hear them sing! After Carrie left high school, she utilized her secretarial skills to apply for and obtain a job working in the business department of the very fashionable and renown Ivy's Dress Shop in Greensboro (Ivy's later became Dillard’s).

Carrie took the city bus to work each day, and in this way met Ronald Horne, a truck driver. They were married in the late 1960s, and from this union were born three beautiful children— Careem, Melba, and Ramisi. Shortly after giving birth to her youngest child, Carrie became seriously ill and could not take care of herself or her children.

After many, many years spent in county mental health services, in family care group homes, and with her mother or brother, Carrie was able to work a part-time job that the mental health department provided. She saved her money, unbeknownst even to her family. Carrie must have prayed and she must have believed that God would move her out of where she was living. She must have believed, because she DID IT! Like Isaiah 40:31 NIV in action— “Those who hope in the Lord will renew their strength. They will soar on wings like eagles; they will run and not grow weary; they will walk and not be faint.” Carrie's dream of being in her own place had come true at last!

Another of Carrie’s biggest joys in life was when her son, Careem Carpenter, as an adult reunited with her and began to visit her. He would bring flowers and gifts and take her out to lunch. Most importantly, he brought her his love, and she was very blessed by that.

Carrie lived the last five years of her life in Charlotte — the first three with her sister and brother-in-law Yvonne and Melvin Stancil. With them, she really enjoyed washing dishes, making her breakfast, and sitting at the kitchen table to enjoy her coffee. She also loved watching the dogs “walking their owners,” and she’d laugh as they would wag their tails.

As Carrie’s Parkinson's disease progressed, she was moved to Clear Creek nursing home where her sister, Yvonne Stancil, visited her often— praying with and over her, singing and playing Christian music, and loving on her “sweet sister” as she called her. Her niece, Christie Sanders and Christie’s husband, Zee; brother, Rufus Taylor; son, Careem Carpenter; and friend, Kymani Matthews also visited and comforted her to the end. Her niece April Tapp, a nurse in Delaware, was invaluable in Carrie’s care, as the family relied on her for medical advice and support.

God called Carrie home the morning of August 21, 2025. She is preceded in death by her mother and father. She’s survived by her loving sister, Yvonne Stancil (Melvin); her brother, Rufus Taylor (Karen); children, Careem Carpenter, Melba Carpenter, and Ramisi Wilson; and a host of nieces/nephews, grand nieces/nephews, and cousins. She will always be loved and remembered.