Moore, Alice Victoria Peterson -
Alice V. Moore, 101, of Essex, Iowa, died Friday morning, May 2, 1997, at the Good Samaritan Center in Red Oak, Iowa.
Funeral services will be held at 3 p.m. on Sunday, May 4, from the First Presbyterian Church in Essex. The Rev. Mark Woldruff will officiate and interment will be in the Essex Cemetery. A memorial to the Essex Presbyterian Church is being established. There will be open viewing at the Hackett Funeral Home in Shenandoah after 1 p.m. on Saturday.
Alice Victoria (Peterson) Moore was born Nov. 10, 1895, to John and Augusta (Hultman) Peterson on a farm near Essex. She was united in marriage to Richard Moore on July 19, 1919, in Red Oak, and to this union one son, John William "Billy" Moore, was born. The Moores managed the Coburg Elevator for one year and farmed many years in this area before moving to Missouri where they both worked at the Lake of the Ozarks resort. After retiring, they moved to Essex and she lived there until she became a resident of the Good Samaritan Care Center. She was a member of the First Presbyterian Church in Essex.
Preceding her in death were her husband in 1977 and her son, who was killed in an airplane accident while serving in the United States Air Force in 1977. Also preceding her in death were two sisters, Mrs. Nora Almquist and Mrs. Florence Johnson, and one brother, George Peterson.
Survivors include a granddaughter, Julie Ann and her husband John Adams of Barrington, Ill.; three great-grandchildren, William Charles, Benjamin Tyler and Bianca Marie Adams; three sisters, Mrs. Ruth Sederburg of Stanton, Iowa, Mrs. Irene Johnson and Mrs. Evelyn Nostrum, both of Essex; two brothers, Raymond Peterson of Riverton, Wyo., and Harold Peterson of Green Valley, Ariz.; and one sister-in-law, Mrs. Ethel Peterson of Shenandoah, Iowa; also many nieces, nephews and other relatives and friends.