ESSIE "JEAN' MOORE, 87, passed away on Wednesday, July, 13 2022 at Huntington Woods Care and Rehabilitation Center in Westlake, Ohio. She was born in Beauty, Martin County, KY on November 7, 1934, the only child of the late James “Major” Preece and Mary Alice (Branham).
During high school, Theodore and Edna Younce fostered her and welcomed her into their home as their own. Jean graduated from Warfield (Kentucky) High School in 1952. On July 6, 1954 she married her sweetheart, the late Billy Gene Moore, in Switzer, Logan County, West Virginia. For their honeymoon, she chuckled that they had a bologna sandwich at a local park. Throughout her life, Billy always chided her that he was one day her senior. Shortly after marriage, Billy and Jean moved to Columbus, Ohio and a few years later to Cleveland for work. In 1976, they moved to Columbia, KY where they made their home until she moved to her son’s home in Cleveland in 2021.
During her life, Jean worked as a secretary for a law firm, a seamstress for Joseph & Feiss, newspaper delivery woman, a farmer with her husband and provided self-employed home and office cleaning services and was a nurse's aide. Jean loved the Lord and her church. Before the onset of dementia, she was an active member of Columbia (Kentucky) Christian Church. She loved to travel, eat out, crochet and sing gospel music. In recent years, she rarely went anywhere without her beloved doggie, Bear.
Jean was preceded in death by her husband, Billy Gene Moore; her daughter, Patricia (Moore) Burton; her son, James Dean Moore; and 6 half-sisters & 2 half-brothers.
SURVIVORS:
1 son: Ronald Dean Moore
1 daughter: Pamela (Lyndon Cox) Moore
6 grandchildren: Tanya (Joe) Sebek, Robert (Cora) Brady, Christina (Roy) Coffey, Bobbie Jo (Brett) Russell, Joshua Moore, Jacob (Michelle) Moore
9 great grandchildren
3 half-sisters: Elizabeth (James) Justice, Dora Jean Fuller and Miriam McVey
3 half-brothers: James (Mary) Preece, Paul (Arlene) Preece and Amos Ray Preece
A host of nieces & nephews
Funeral Service: Saturday, July 23, 2022 at Callaham Funeral Home, 278 W. Main St., Inez, KY 41224 at 10:00amET
Visitation: Friday, July 22, 2022 from 6:00pm-8:00pmET
Interment: Lower Moore Cemetery, Pilgrim, in Martin County, KY
In lieu of flowers, please make donations to Grundy Mountain Mission School, 1760 Edgewater Dr., Grundy, VA 24614 www.mmskids.org
This obituary is a courtesy to the family by Stotts-Phelps-McQueary Funeral Home.
