Dollena
Dollena Mae (Dee) Moore
d. June 5, 2012
Dollena Mae (Dee) Moore, 90, of Dunnellon, Florida, died June 5, 2012, at the Mayflower Homes Health Care Center in Grinnell, Iowa. Her funeral will be at 10:30 am, Monday, June 11, at Springs Presbyterian Church in Dunnellon, Florida, visitation with family beginning at 9:30. She will be interred at the Florida National Cemetery in Bushnell.
Dee was born on September 25, 1921, in Clarksburg, West Virginia, to Clarence and Myrtle Thomas. She was a 1939 graduate of Clarksburg’s Washington Irving High School and attended West Virginia Wesleyan College for two years before eloping to marry Jack L. Moore of Clarksburg on November 18, 1942. They were married for over 55 years, before Jack’s passing in May of 1998. After the War, they lived in West Virginia, where their sons Thomas and Michael were born. The family moved to South Florida in the summer of 1955 and made Fort Lauderdale their home until 1982, when they moved to Dunnellon.
Dee’s primary calling in life was as a homemaker. She fed, clothed, and nurtured two sons, her husband, and a much younger brother after their mother died at age 50. She kept house to an absurd standard of cleanliness. She was superb in entertaining guests for dinner parties, drop-in coffees and lunches, and overnights. She made people feel wanted and comfortable. For many years she organized weekly beach potlucks for friends and neighbors in Fort Lauderdale. Besides cooking and entertaining, she enjoyed movies, music, reading, taking walks, and traveling.
Church was a big part of her life and she was active in churches both in South Florida and Dunnellon, where she was a founding member of Springs Presbyterian Church.
Surviving Dee are her two Sons, Thomas (Emily) Moore of Grinnell, Iowa, Michael (Suzanne) Moore of Dunnellon; four grandchildren, Amy (Andrew) Broadmoore of Duluth, Minnesota and Phillip Moore of Pittsboro, N.C; David (Missaha) Moore of Montgomery, Alabama and Kimberly Moore Hensley of Dunnellon; her younger brother, Charles R. Thomas of Coal Center, Pennsylvania; and 8 great-grandchildren.
Preceding Dee in death were her husband Jack, her older brother, Robert, and an infant son, Jack Linwood, Jr.
Memorials may be made to the Covenant Children’s Home through the Springs Presbyterian Church or to Springs Presbyterian Church.
Dee was born on September 25, 1921, in Clarksburg, West Virginia, to Clarence and Myrtle Thomas. She was a 1939 graduate of Clarksburg’s Washington Irving High School and attended West Virginia Wesleyan College for two years before eloping to marry Jack L. Moore of Clarksburg on November 18, 1942. They were married for over 55 years, before Jack’s passing in May of 1998. After the War, they lived in West Virginia, where their sons Thomas and Michael were born. The family moved to South Florida in the summer of 1955 and made Fort Lauderdale their home until 1982, when they moved to Dunnellon.
Dee’s primary calling in life was as a homemaker. She fed, clothed, and nurtured two sons, her husband, and a much younger brother after their mother died at age 50. She kept house to an absurd standard of cleanliness. She was superb in entertaining guests for dinner parties, drop-in coffees and lunches, and overnights. She made people feel wanted and comfortable. For many years she organized weekly beach potlucks for friends and neighbors in Fort Lauderdale. Besides cooking and entertaining, she enjoyed movies, music, reading, taking walks, and traveling.
Church was a big part of her life and she was active in churches both in South Florida and Dunnellon, where she was a founding member of Springs Presbyterian Church.
Surviving Dee are her two Sons, Thomas (Emily) Moore of Grinnell, Iowa, Michael (Suzanne) Moore of Dunnellon; four grandchildren, Amy (Andrew) Broadmoore of Duluth, Minnesota and Phillip Moore of Pittsboro, N.C; David (Missaha) Moore of Montgomery, Alabama and Kimberly Moore Hensley of Dunnellon; her younger brother, Charles R. Thomas of Coal Center, Pennsylvania; and 8 great-grandchildren.
Preceding Dee in death were her husband Jack, her older brother, Robert, and an infant son, Jack Linwood, Jr.
Memorials may be made to the Covenant Children’s Home through the Springs Presbyterian Church or to Springs Presbyterian Church.
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