OBITUARY: Thora Estad Moore, 1892-c1966, Mitchell County, Iowa

[Source: Mitchell County Press-News or Mason City Globe Gazette]
                      

	LAST RITES HELD FOR MRS. THORA MOORE

Funeral services for an Osage woman, Mrs. Thora Moore, 74, were held
Saturday at Our Savior's Lutheran church.  Mrs. Moore died Thursday at
Mitchell County Memorial Hospital in Osage where she had been confined
three days.  Her death was due to complications of a malignancy from
which she had been ill since May. In charge of the services was the
Rev. Obert Hoven, church pastor, and arrangements were by C. R. Champion
and Sons.  Burial was in the cemetery at Floyd.

Thora Estad was born in Oslo, Norway, Jan. 27, 1892, the daughter of
Gilbert and Berit Estad. She came to the United States with her parents
as an infant and the family settled at Orchard.  She attended the schools
there, and also attended Cedar Valley seminary in Osage.

She became the bride of Harold L. Moore in November, 19?5.  Mrs. Moore
moved to Osage in 1936 following the death of her husband in 1925.

Surviving are her four children; Mrs. Dorothy McChurchy of Floyd; Bernard
Moore of Council Bluffs; Mrs. Marianne Colville of Valley City, N. D; and
Loyal Moore of Emmetsburg; 12 grandchildren, two great-grandchildren,
one sister, Mrs. Emelie Newman of Orchard.

She was preceded in death by her husband and her parents.

Mrs. Moore was a lifelong member of Our Savior's Lutheran Church and
was active in the women's affiliate organization of the church until
her illness.




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