Joseph E. Moorefield was born on March 8th 1924 in Virginia. He served in Patton's Army during World War II. He went on to marry Dorothy Brewer on September 1st 1948. The two of them went on to have two children: Joel Steven Moorefield in 1949 and Sharen Moorefield in 1957. In the late 1950s he began to seek ministry and became involved with the North Carolina Yearly Meeting of Friends which was the North Carolina sect of the Quakers. He was with them for 44 years from 1955 to 1999. He served at several Churches during his lengthy ministry: Corinth Friends Meeting, Oakland Friends Meeting, Piney Woods Friends Meeting, Spring Garden Friends Meeting (only to supply until a Pastor was found), Hopewell Friends Meeting and Deep Creek Friends Meeting. He went into early retirement at the age of 65 in 1989 after Pastoring Piney Woods Friends Meeting for about four years. Joseph, along with his wife, daughter and grandson (Matthew Scarborough) moved back to Greensboro, NC and he went on afterwards to take own the role of Pastor at Galax Friends Meeting in Virginia in the early 90s. He left a few years later. In 1995, he suffered a massive heart attack and almost lost his life. The doctors said that if he had gotten there fifteen minutes later, he would've died. This was the beginning of the decline in his health. In 1997 he has a five-way bypass surgery. In October 1998, he have his final sermon at Spring Garden Friends Meeting. Only a few months later after beginning to have trouble walking and keeping his balance, he went to the doctor and they began to treat him for strokes. But only about a month into the rehabilitation, they discovered that his health was much worse, and they diagnosed him with a brain tumor. On Sunday July 25th 1999 at 1:40pm, with almost all his family by his side, he went home to be with the Lord.