Moore, Mary J. 1903-1994

MOORE, AYERS, CROUCH, HOLMES, MURPHY, PHELAN

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Date: 11/10/2007 at 05:30:46

Mary J. Moore

COLFAX - Funeral services for Mary J. Moore, 90, of Prairie City, a teacher for more than half a century, will be held at 10 a.m. Wednesday, Sept. 28, at the Immaculate Conception Catholic Church in Colfax.

Burial will be in Holy Cross Cemetery in Farrar.

A wake service will be held at 7:30 p.m. today at the Walters-Coburn Funeral Home in Colfax.

Visitation with the family will be held from 6:30 to 8 p.m. today at the funeral home.

Memorials to the Immaculate Conception Catholic Church parish hall building fund will be accepted.

Miss Moore, a longtime resident of Colfax who had resided in Prairie City for four years, died Monday at the home of her sister in Prairie City.

She is survived by two sisters, Catherine Ayers of Mingo and Frances Crouch of Prairie City and a number of nieces and nephews.

She was preceded in death by her parents, a brother, William, and two sisters, Margaret Holmes and Cecelia Murphy.

Miss Moore, who taught elementary grades at Mingo, Valeria and Colfax, from which she retired, was a member of the Immaculate Conception Catholic Church in Colfax, the Altar and Rosary Society, Retired Teacher Association and the Iowa State Education Association.

The daughter of James and Mary "Mollie" Phelan Moore, she was born Oct. 31, 1903 in Valeria.

She was a 1920 graduate of Our Lady of Angels High School in Clinton and Drake University in Des Moines. ~ The Newton (IA) Daily News, September 1994