Phillip Moore Jr.

Graveside Service:

Wednesday, September 21, 2016, 1:15 PM

Dallas Fort Worth National Cemetery

 Phillip Jerome Moore Jr. was born March 5, 1927 in Wortham,

Texas to the parents of the late Phillip Jerome Moore, Sr. and

Annie Moore.  He passed away on Wednesday, September 14, 2016.

Phillip received his education in the Wortham Public Schools, Prairie

View A & M University (B. S. degree), Texas Southern University 

(M.Ed. degree), school administration and principal certification at the 

University of Houston. He retired from the Houston ISD after serving

as an elementary principal. He worked 40 years as a teacher and

elementary principal.  He did his student teaching at Prairie View A &  

M College under Dr. Woolfolk before being called to serve his country.  

He served two terms of service in the U. S. Navy.

Phillip was baptized at a very early age by his grandfather Rev. Cary

Moore at the Baptist Church in Wortham, Texas.  He joined St. John

Baptist Church in 1958 under the pastorage of  Rev. B. E. Collie. Phillip

was preceded in death by his parents, one brother Ralph , his sister,

Mertis Lee Moore Stramler and his niece Sharon Ann Stramler.  Phillip

never married but spent many years enjoying his holidays and

traveling with his family.

Precious memories are cherished by his faithful brother Vandine

Moore and wife Sallye Moore, his nephew Gregory Moore and wife

Juan Clara Moore, great nephews, Gregory Moore II and wife Lorena and

Preston Andrew Moore, great-great niece Clara Moore, great-great

nephew Cameron Preston Moore and two cousins Charlene Perry Maddox

and Willie Alvin Culton and other relatives  and friends.