MOORE, Albert T. 1884-1953

MOORE, REAMS, BIDDICK, ROBERTSON, WALKER

Posted By: Marilyn O'Connor (email)
Date: 12/12/2010 at 21:58:25

A.T. MOORE
KILLED WHEN
STRUCK BY CAR

Funeral Services
Held Jan. 2; Burial
In Park Cemetery

Albert T. Moore, 69, was killed about 6:30 Wednesday, evening, December 30, 1953, when he was struck by a car as he walked across the highway from his home to a barn on the other side of the road to do his evening chores. Phil Kennison, 19 year-old ministerial student of near Floyd and driver of the car which struck Mr. Moore, said that he saw only the flash of his headlights on the milk pails Moore was carrying.

Moore's body was carried 150 feet on the hood of the car. Coroner Carl Hauser said Moore was deaf, but had left his hearing aid on the table in the farmhouse at the time of the accident. The Moore farm is located four miles east of Nora Springs.

Authorities said the dead man had been wearing dark clothes and that, coupled with the fact that Kennison's car came over a rise in the pavement, may have been a contributing cause in the accident. Moore was picked up immediately after the accident by his son-in-law, Elvin Daily, of Nora Springs.

Coroner Hauser said that the immediate cause of death was a skull fracture. He said both legs had been broken, the right leg above the knee, his right arm and chest was crushed.

Kennison, who had been attending North Central Bible college in Minneapolis was home on vacation and was just returning from Mason City at the time of the accident. He had picked up his car at 5:40 p.m. at Mason City where it had been stored at the home of his grandparents. He is single. He was not injured in the accident.

F.R. Sheckler and Sons had charge of the Moore services, which were held at 2 o'clock Saturday in the local Methodist church. Interment was in the Park Cemetery.

The casket was carried by J. W. Kennedy, E. A. Brown, Claude Tatum, Walter Baughey, Ralph Miller, and Clarence Stoner. Mrs. J. Ellis Webb sang "Beautiful Ilse of Somewhere" and "Crossing the Bar". She was accompanied by Mrs. Kenneth Shanks. The floral tributes were arranged by Mrs. C. C. Stoner and Mrs. J. W. Kennedy.

Mr. Moore was born March 26, 1884, at Egan S. Dak., a son of Sanford R. and Ada E. Moore, who homesteaded on the farm in South Dakota where he was born. They later moved to Clear Lake for a year and then moved to their own farm on the outskirts of Rockford, where Albert and his father carried on dairy farming and sold milk in the Rockford area.

On June 14, 1910, he was united in marriage to Elizabeth V. Reams, who survives him as does their only child, a daughter, Mrs. E. L. (Ione) Daily.

He entered business in Nora Springs, operating a cafe and a grocery store here from 1910 to 1929, when he again returned to farming on the old Moore farm north of Rockford. he and his family made two moves to different farms in Floyd county. After his parent's deaths and the disposal of the parental farm, he bought the farm on which he was living at the time of his tragic death.

He is survived by his wife; his daughter; three sisters, Mrs. Frank Biddick of Rockford, Mrs. E.M. Robertson of Culver City,Calif., and Mrs. L. M. Walker of Los Angeles; two grandchidren, Sandford and Kay Daily of Nora Springs; two nieces and three nephews. He was an active member of the Methodist church in Nora Springs.

Among the relatives from out of town who attended the A. T. Moore funeral here last Saturday were Mr. and Mrs. John Moore of Gettysburg, S. Dak.; Mr. and Mrs. John Pyatt of Greene; Mr. and Mrs. Donald Biddick of Nashua; Mrs. E. M. Robertson, Culver City, Calif.; Mr. and Mrs. Frank S. Fairley, Marion; Mrs Gertrude Biddick and F. Max Biddick, both of Rockford; Mrs. Gladys Nash and Donald Nash of Marble Rock.

(1953)