Tom Horton, former columnist for The Advertiser who died last Nov. 26 in San Francisco, will be remembered in a wake and memorial service at 5 p.m. Thursday at Murphy's Bar & Grill in Downtown Honolulu.

Horton, who also was a restaurateur in Honolulu and in Stinson Beach in Marin County, Calif., died after battling cancer. He was 66.

He also was a frequent visitor to Honolulu with his wife, Karen, and their daughter, Kate.

Horton was 33 when he joined The Advertiser as a three-dot columnist, moving here from Sacramento, Calif. He was a connoisseur of haute cuisine and fine wines, and briefly operated Epicurean Consensus in Puck's Alley with chef-friend Yves Moneret.

Don Murphy, a friend of Horton, said Horton never missed a visit to Murphy's whenever he visited. "I would guess that he never missed any Irish hangout wherever he was," Murphy said.

For more information, call Ray Sweeney at 533-0033.