Maggie Moore

EAST PRAIRIE, Mo. -- Funeral for Maggie L. Moore of East Prairie will be held at 2 p.m. today at First Baptist Church. R.L. Robinson and Dennis Lowe will officiate. Burial will be in East Prairie Memorial Park Cemetery.

Shelby Funeral Home in East Prairie is in charge of arrangements.

Moore, 81, died Monday, Oct. 8, 2001, at East Prairie Nursing Center.

She was born May 23, 1920, in Savannah, Tenn., daughter of Robert Taylor and Frona Katherine Boyd Marshall. She and James William Moore were married July 23, 1938. He died Dec. 30, 1993.

Moore lived in East Prairie most of her life, and was a member of First Baptist Church.

Survivors include three sons, Edward, Austin and Winston Moore, all of East Prairie; a daughter, Shirley McClendon of East Prairie; 17 grandchildren; 32 great-grandchildren; and a great-great-grandchild.

She was preceded in death by a daughter, a granddaughter, five brothers, and three sisters.