Episode 548: Joe Horton, Dear Wife Ann Died of MS After 43 Years of Marriage

Listen, Learn & Love Hosted by Richard Ostler

Richard Ostler

Religion & Spirituality

4.8 • 839 Ratings

🗓️ 27 July 2022

⏱️ 58 minutes

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Summary

My friend Joe Horton shares the story of falling in love in 1978 with his wife Ann concurrent with her MS diagnosis. Joe talks about healing blessings, advice to not marry someone with MS, and his personal revelation to marry Ann. It is a beautiful and deeply moving love story. Joe (who was President/CEO of Primary Children’s Hospital from 1994-2007 and currently is Professor in the MHA Program at the David Eccles School of Business) talks about the deep rewards and challenges of the road they jointly walked together. That road included having two children (Matt and Drew), Ann eventually needing a wheelchair, managing providing care, Ann blessing so many, and Ann’s passing on April 15, 2021. You can read Ann’s obituary here: https://www.larkinmortuary.com/obituary/view/margaret-ann-horton-13 Joe’s life is very different than he imagined on the flight home from Rome Italy in 1975 after a successful LDS mission. However, Joe shares how he wouldn’t trade this life for the life he once imagined. Joe ends the podcast with nine life lessons he has learned from the experience. The principles in these life lessons are foundational and can help all of us navigate the realities of mortality. I encourage everyone to listen to this podcast. It will help you have more hope. It will help you better see our Heavenly Parents love for all their children during our difficult mortal journey. It will also help you help others as they walk complicated roads. Thank you, Joe, for being on the podcast. Your story honors Ann. I’m glad more are hearing about your wonderful wife and the many lives that are better because of her. Thank you for your courage and faith and all the lives that are better because of you.

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0:00.0	Welcome listeners to another episode of Listen, Learn, and Love, hosted by Richard Osler.
0:09.9	In my home today to be on the podcast is my friend Joe Horton.
0:15.1	Welcome to the podcast, Joe.
0:16.8	Thank you very much, Richard. Good to be here.
0:19.6	We're going to talk about Joe's wonderful marriage to his wife, Ann. They were married 43 years, and Anne died in April of 2021 of MS.
0:31.9	Joe and I became friends at the sports mall. We both kind of got on the same workout schedule the late afternoon,
0:38.7	and I keep to myself at the sports mall. But for some reason, Joe just was someone I felt
0:45.1	comfortable talking to, and he told me a little bit about his life, including his wife,
0:49.9	at MS, and I told him a little bit about my church work and trying to better support people.
0:54.8	We've just been friends and have traded emails over the years.
0:58.5	And in fact, Joe was made podcast 59 possible way back in November of 2018 when he connected me with those two guests.
1:09.6	But in recent emails, Joe and I were just exchanging some emails,
1:14.3	and he mentioned, and I'll read this from the email,
1:18.4	P.S. I lost my beautiful and brave wife, Anne, a year ago, to complication some MS.
1:25.0	We battled together for 43 years.
1:31.5	I believe before that learning to love is the ultimate mission in life, but believe it even, believe it even more strongly and deeply now.
1:37.3	If we learn to do that, our life is success. No other accomplishment can compensate for it.
1:47.7	Then I googled Anz Obituary and just read more about Joe's wife, someone who I'd never met. And then I felt an impression, Joe did not reach out to me and
1:55.3	said, I'd like to be on your podcast. Most of my guests do, but I had a couple really strong impressions that invite Joe to be on the podcast to share about Ann and their 43-year marriage.
2:08.1	Why?
2:08.9	Because I think there's some listeners that need to hear what Joe has learned that are walking a similar road that Joe has been walking with his wife, Anne.
2:18.6	It's a beautiful love story, but it's a difficult road.
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