Birdie Charlene

Hornsberger

Birdie Charlene Manning Hornsberger, age 85, passed from this Earth, April 29, 2024, surrounded by her loving family, in Sweetwater, Texas.

Funeral services will be at 2 P.M. Saturday, May 4, 2024 at McCoy Chapel of Memories with Stephen Williams officiating. Interment will follow at the Sweetwater Cemetery  directed by McCoy Funeral Home.

Born June 28, 1938, in Lorraine Texas to Charles Melvin Manning and Audrey Lee Smith Manning, she was raised in the small town of Wastella, Texas. Birdie attended Lorraine schools, eventually graduating from Roscoe High School, where her love of sports, specifically basketball, and later fast pitch softball, grew, as her children can recall watching their Mama play for the Roscoe Bombers.

A longtime resident of Nolan County, Birdie was a loyal employee at M and B Grocery in Roscoe, before her time with Phillip Nolan Food Service in Sweetwater. She married the love of her life, Dalton Horsnberger Dec. 31, 1980, in Roby, Texas. While she never met a stranger and loved to visit with neighbors and people in and around town, she and Dalton, known to their kids and grandkids as Nonnie or Gigi & PawPaw, loved time spent with their family, and the occasional boot scoot at the Elks Lodge. The two shared a wonderful life together for 36 years, as members of 4th and Elm Church of Christ, and had arguably the most beautiful yard in town, thanks to Nonnie's love of gardening and her master green thumb.

Nonnie loved to cook, and boy was she good at it! Most known for her chicken and gravy, sweet tea, pastries (specifically lemon meringue pie) and her homemade corn dogs, you never left the Hornsberger residence hungry. Nonnie loved to thrift shop at the local Neiman Marcus, aka the Sweetwater Goodwill, adored the color purple, and enjoyed a good Whataburger on Sunday's, as she got older.

Birdie was preceded in death by her parents, three brothers and three sisters, and her husband, Dalton.

She is survived by one brother, CM Manning of Monahans, her five children: Mike Cullins and wife Margie, of Clyde, daughter Lucia Boyd and husband Wayne, of San Angelo, daughter Tonyia Williams and husband Stephen of Ennis, son Ricky Cullins and wife Stacy of Merkel, and daughter Rachelle Sosa of Big Springs, 12 grandchildren and 21 great grandchildren.

In lieu of flowers, donations can be made to Wounded Warriors or St. Jude Children's Hospital.

Pallbearers: Ricky Cullins, Mike Cullins, Wayne Boyd, Jarrick Cooper, Justin Cotten, Lundi Cotton. Honorary Pallbearer: Dustin Cotten​