Essie Jean Moore
1934—2022
Essie Jean Moore, 87, passed away July 13, 2022, at Huntington Woods Care and Rehabilitation Center in Westlake, Ohio.
Born Nov. 7, 1934, in Beauty, she was the only child of the late James “Major” Preece and Mary Alice (Branham).
During high school, Theodore and Edna Younce fostered her and welcomed her into their home as their own.
Jean graduated from Warfield High School in 1952. On July 6, 1954, she married her sweetheart, the late Billy Gene Moore, in Switzer, Logan County, W.Va. For their honeymoon, she chuckled that they had a bologna sandwich at a local park. Throughout her life, Billy always chided her that he was one day her senior. Shortly after marriage, Billy and Jean moved to Columbus, Ohio, and a few years later to Cleveland for work. In 1976, they moved to Columbia, where they made their home until she moved to her son’s home in Cleveland in 2021.
During her life, Jean worked as a secretary for a law firm, a seamstress for Joseph & Feiss, a newspaper delivery woman, a farmer with her husband, provided self-employed home and office cleaning services, and a nurse’s aide. Jean loved the Lord and her church. Before the onset of dementia, she was an active member of Columbia Christian Church. She loved to travel, eat out, crochet and sing gospel music. In recent years, she rarely went anywhere without her beloved doggie, Bear.
Jean is preceded in death by her husband Billy, her daughter Patricia (Moore) Burton, her son James Dean Moore, six half-sisters and two half-brothers. She is survived by her son Ronald Dean Moore, daughter Pamela (Lyndon Cox) Moore, grandchildren Tanya (Joe) Sebeck, Robert (Cora) Brady, Christina (Roy) Coffey, Bobbie Jo (Brett) Russell, Joshua Moore, Jacob (Michelle) Moore, half-sisters Elizabeth (James) Justice, Dora Jean Fuller and Miriam McVey, half-brothers James (Mary) Preece, Paul (Arlene) Preece and Amos Ray Preece, nine great-grandchildren and a host of nieces and nephews.
The funeral service is at 10 a.m. Saturday, July 23, 2022, at Callaham Funeral Home, Inez. Friends may call at the funeral home 6-8 p.m. Friday. Interment will be at the Upper Moore Cemetery, Pilgrim. In lieu of flowers, please make donations to Grundy Mountain Mission School, 1760 Edgewater Dr., Grundy, VA 24614, www.mmskids.org.