Tuesday, March 17, 2009

Mary "Mollie" Larimer Moore, 1867-1950

The Rock Island Argus - 20 May 1950
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  Mrs. Mary L. Moore, 86, formerly of Jerome, Iowa, and who has been making her home with her son, Harry Moore, at 174 Fifteenth Avenue, East Moline, the last four years, died in Moline Public Hospital about 4 o'clock yesterday afternoon.  She had been in the hospital little more than two weeks.
  Mrs. Moore, the former Mary L. Larimer, was born in Shearlyville, Pa., Nov. 19, 1867, the daughter of Daniel and Amanda Larimer.  She was married to Lincoln Moore, Oct. 2, 1884, in Jerome, Iowa.  He died May 1, 1946, since which time she had made her home in East Moline.
 She was a member of the Methodist church in Jerome and the Order of the Eastern Star in Seymour, Iowa.
  Surviving beside her son, Harry, in East Moline are two other sons, Daniel of Des Moines and Byron of Barberton, Ohio; eight grandchildren; seven great-grandchildren and a brother, George Larimer of Dwight, Ill.  A son, a daughter and three brothers preceded her in death.
  The body was removed to the Wendt funeral home in East Moline where friends may call tomorrow evening.  Funeral services will be held in the Jerome Methodist church at 1:30 o'clock Tuesday afternoon.  Burial will be in the Jerome cemetery.
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  Transcribed from RootWeb's PAMERCER-L Archives where it had been forwarded from the PA-Roots Obituary Board on 4 May 2004.

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