James D. Horgan

Age 70
Loving Husband, Father, Grandfather, Brother, Brother-in-Law, Uncle and Friend.

James D. Horgan, 70, of West Grove passed away peacefully at home on Tuesday, March 15, after a lengthy illness.
Jim and his wife Cynthia settled in West Grove in 1971, where they raised two daughters, Molly and Maggie. Jim started his own carpentry contracting business in 1972, and in 1978-1979, he and Cynthia designed, then built a passive solar, energy efficient house in Penn Township with a lot of help from family, friends, and especially Roger Martin (now deceased), then an 18 year-old Avon Grove High School graduate, who went on to work with Jim until Jims retirement about 33 years later. Jim lived in that home with his wife until his death.
Jim spent much of his spare time in the spring and summer working in his organic vegetable garden, which expanded almost every year and included three plantings of corn, a raspberry patch in the center, and a separate large asparagus bed. He gave away lots of extra vegetables to family and friends, as well as local community food cupboards. Jims other spare-time passion over the years was tennis, which he played quite competitively in his day.
Along with his wife Cynthia, Jim thoroughly enjoyed their granddaughters Olivia and Gracie as they were growing up . He made a nature trail for them through the centers of tall old evergreen trees in long rows, which they loved to run through down to the woods. He would push them all over the yard in his big wheelbarrow and on the swings he had hung from two tall oaks, and in the fall he made big piles of leaves for them to jump in. Inside, he played card games, tiddlywinks, and board games with them, almost always losing graciously. The girls loved eating his homemade popcorn on nights they slept over, and going to Giant with him the next morning to pick out their donut for breakfast.
Jim contributed to the community in a number of ways over the years: helping to build playground equipment at the old Avon Grove Elementary School, being a Big Brother, doing some carpentry projects for the Neighborhood Services Center Thrift Shop in Oxford, doing volunteer work along with Cynthia, for the Kennett Symphony, and as mentioned above, donating produce from his garden to local food cupboards.
Jim is survived by his wife of 48 years, Cynthia, and his daughters Molly Johnson, of Oxford, and Margaret (Maggie), of Naples, Florida, as well as his granddaughters Olivia and Grace Johnson, of Oxford. Also surviving are his siblings: Sister Ancille Horgan, of St. Francis, WI; Carolyn Ninneman, of LaCrosse, WI; Edward Horgan (Myrna), of Plover, WI; Kathleen Hoerter (Robert), of Pella, IA; and Kenneth Horgan (Maxine), of Mountain View, MO, and 17 nieces and nephews, as well as his brother-in-law, Robert E. Kane, of Bowdoinham, ME.

Visitation will be held on Saturday, April 2, at Foulk&Grieco Funeral Home, 200 Rosehill Rd., West Grove, PA, from 10-11:30 a.m., and a memorial service will be held from 11:30 a.m.-12 noon.

In lieu of flowers, please consider planting a small organic gardenor even a few tomato plantsin Jims memory.

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