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Luther C. Moore Rockdale - Luther C Moore, 84, died Friday, Feb 7, 2003 in Austin. Services were
at 2 p.m. Monday in Phillips and Luckey Funeral Home with the Rev. Glenn PIpes of Medowbrook Baptist
Church and the Rev. Calvin Springer officiating.
Mr Moore was born April 23, 1918, in Hoover
to William and Rosa Southern Moore. After graduating from Tulia High School in Tulia, Luther enrolled
at West Texas State Teachers College in 1938 and graduated with a bachelor's degree in 1941. While
in his senior year, he registered for the military draft for 1941 to Jan 1946, in the European Theater
on the Ascension Islands.
After his discharge, he worked five years as a chemist but during this
time, he attended night school to learn to be an electrician. Luther worked as a union electrician
for 34 years and was a member of The International Bortherhood of ELectrical Workers for 50 years.
Luther
made his home in Amarillo from 1950 to 1971 and later moved to Rockdale, where he met and married Bernice
Jackson Caffey on March 12, 1998, in Rockdale. Luther was a member of Meadowbrook Baptist Church and
Thorndale VFW.
He was preceded in death by his parents; a daughter, Patricia Lynn Wolfe; three
brothers; five sisters; three half-sisters; and a half-brother.
Survivors include his wife; two
sons, Mark L Moore and wife, Rogena and David J. Moore and wife, Danna, All of Amarillo; a stepson,
Kenneth Caffey and wife, Judy of Deer Park; a step daughter-in-law, Dana Caffey of Bryan; two brothers-in-law,
Adrian Bates of Happy and Bobby Caffey and wife Betty, of Thorndale; two sisters-in-law, Dorothy Moore
of Portland, Ore., and Alta Raye Caffey and husband, Buck, of Rockdale; three grandchildren; many step
grandchildren; and several great-great-grandchildren.
Pall bearers include Ronald Montgomery,
Robert Moore, Bobby Caffey, Clifford Bartlett, John Ballard, Ronnie Borrough and Bob Melcher.
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