Avis de décès de Katherine Moore - Nécrologie - MesAieux.com

<!-- DisplayFullObituaryText -->Katherine B. MooreBlack Mountain - Katherine Ellen Boyer Moore peacefully went to be with her Lord on November 7th, 2014 at Givens Highland Farms in Black Mountain, NC from the complications of advanced Alzheimer's disease at the age of 86. Katherine was born March 26, 1928 in what is now Chunju, South Korea to the late Rev. Elmer T. and Gladys (Perkins) Boyer who were serving as missionaries there with the (Southern) Presbyterian Church US. She spent most of her childhood in Korea and briefly attended PyengYang Foreign School (in what is now PyongYang, North Korea) until her family was evacuated to the US at the beginning of WW II.Kathy graduated from Maryville College in Maryville, TN, and then attended the Presbyterian School of Christian Education in Richmond, VA where she met and married her husband, Rev. John Venable Moore, from Charleston, WV, on December 15, 1951. After completing graduate school, the couple moved to West Virginia, where they served two rural churches and John also taught at Davis and Elkins College, in Elkins, WV. After the births of their first two children in 1953 and 1955, Kathy and John were commissioned as Presbyterian missionaries to South Korea. Their third child was born on the mission field where they served for 36 years (1955-1991) in several capacities and locations.In addition to raising her three sons and supporting the work of her husband, Kathy led women's bible studies, enjoyed playing the piano and helped to start the library at Taejon Presbyterian College (now called Han Nam University) in Taejon, South Korea. One of her joys was to provide hospitality to people from all over the world who came to see the work of the Presbyterian Mission in Korea. The sons also remember a highlight of most summers in Korea when the family spent several weeks up Mt. Chidi in either a squad tent or rustic cabin.After retirement from the mission field in 1991, they moved to Black Mountain, NC where Kathy and John were very active with Black Mountain Presbyterian Church and Kiwanis Thrift Shop. Kathy will be remembered as a woman of deep faith, whose actions truly reflected her belief that life is to be spent in service to others and for her love and devotion to the life and work of her husband of 61 years.Kathy was predeceased by her husband (10/9/2013), parents and two sisters (Margaret Boyer Dickenson and Helen Boyer Bennett). She is survived by her sons, David Venable Moore (Beth Freeman Moore), William Lloyd Moore (Ann Cho Moore) and Frederick Ernest Moore (Jo Ann Webb Moore); grandchildren, John Cho Moore (Kanna Livingston Moore), Catherine Venable Moore (and her mother Susan Pierson Moore), Ginny McNeill Roper Buddenberg (Andrew Buddenberg), Paul Boyer Moore, Sarah Helen Moore, Laura Allison Moore Dille (Mark Adam Dille), and Hannah Ruth Moore; great-grandchild Noelle Terada Moore; siblings Elizabeth A. Boyer and Kenneth E. Boyer (Sylvia H. Boyer); brothers-in-law, Dan D. Dickenson, and Don P. Bennett, as well as multiple nieces, nephews, grand-nieces and grand-nephews.A memorial service will be held at 2 PM on November 22nd at the Black Mountain Presbyterian Church with visitation at the church after the service. In lieu of flowers, a donation may be made in her memory to Black Mountain Presbyterian Church (PO Box 39, Black Mountain, NC 28711), Swannanoa Valley Christian Ministry (PO Box 235, Black Mountain, NC 28711) or Black Mountain Home for Children, Youth and Families.