Submitted by

Shirley Harlan

Moore Service at City Church Saturday, at 2

Harry Lee Moore,, 75, longtime city resident and well known meat cutter in the area, died at 5:45 pm Thursday in Blackwell General Hospital where he was admitted Sunday.
His home was at 311 West Padon.
Funeral will be at 2 pm Saturday in the First Christian church with Rev John Downs officiating.
Chikaskia Lodge members will open the lodge at 1:15 pm Saturday to attend the funeral as a group and will conduct committal service at the graveside.
Burial will be in Green Lawn Abbey under direction of the Porter Funeral home.
Moore came to Blackwell with his parents when he was around five years old from Platt City, MO..where he was born March 19, 1891.
As a young man he went to work for the late C G Fey, leaving the store to enter service in World War I going overseas for duty.
Upon his return he was employed as a meat cutter in the Scott Grocery located where the Western Auto Store is at present and then entered business for himself with a meat market located on North Main.
Later he moved to 108 South Main where he was associated with the late Harry Bramadorf in a combined grocery-meat market at that location.
Moore became employed in Fey’s Grocery and Market in 1943 but at the onset of World War II to become a meat cutter in the Prisoner of War camp at Tonkawa.
He was a member of the Christian Church and along with his wife, Bessie attended Class 13.
He was a 45 year member of Russell Litchfield American Legion post and belonged to the local Veterans of Foreign Wars post and held membership in Chikaskia Lodge AF & AM in Blackwell.
In addition to his wife, he is survived by a son, Lt Col Lee Brent Moore, Serving with gthe US Army in Saigon, who arrived in Blackwell Thursday to be at his father’s bedside.
Also surviving are his daughter-in-law and three grandchildren who reside at 7813 Kellebrew Drive, Arondale, VA.