- Date Of Birth: April 28, 1917
- Date Of Death: February 27, 2011
- State: Indiana
Mary Phillips Moore passed away February 27, 2011, in Grove, Oklahoma, at Grand Lake Villa. Mary moved to Oklahoma four years ago, following her 90th birthday, to be with her son and his wife, who became her caregivers.
Mary was born April 28, 1917, in Anderson, Indiana, to J. Frank and Elsie Snider Phillips. She married her husband, John I. Moore, January 1, 1935. John and Mary’s married life took them from Anderson, Indiana, to Atlanta, Georgia, and then to Crawfordsville, Indiana, before they settled in Pendleton, Indiana, in 1953. John predeceased Mary in 1986. Mary was a homemaker, as well as an employee at Graham’s Department Store in Pendleton from 1955 until it closed. Mary’s memberships included the First United Methodist Church of Pendleton, Indiana, War Mothers, Garden Club, and Home Ec. Club. She was a voracious reader, a seamstress, and a creator of beautiful ceramics. She also enjoyed a good card game, especially Bridge and Skip-Bo. Throughout her life, Mary enjoyed traveling the states including Alaska, as well as visiting Paris and Germany.
She is survived by children Jack Jackie Moore, Monkey Island, Oklahoma; Joe Georgia Calambokidis Moore, Chevy Chase, Maryland; Jill A Marvin Kelly, North Port, Florida; Mary Jane Sonny Lawyer, Pendleton, Indiana; Jennifer L. Dan Bagley, Anchorage, Alaska; and Jay F. Lana Moore, Pendleton, Indiana; twenty grandchildren, thirty great-grandchildren, and three great-great-grandchildren. She is also survived by two sisters-in-law, Marie Phillips and Lois Phillips.
Mary was preceded in death by her parents; her husband; brothers James, Jack, J. Robert, and Jerry Phillips; sisters, Kathleen Dawson, Betty Baker, Patricia Mahan, and Barbara Phillips; grandson, Bradley David Craig. Mary’s family established the “Mary Moore Charity Event” as an annual affair a few years ago. The last several years the event was a Charity Golf Tournament held on Monkey Island, Oklahoma, in support of Carl Erskine’s THE JIMMY FUND which supports Madison County, Indiana, SPECIAL OLYMPICS. This effort has contributed nearly $20, 000.00 to The Jimmy Fund over the last three years.
