Article and Obit Contributed By: Debra Ann Click Shouhed FAG # (#48576588)
Clarion Ledger ( Jackson, Mississippi)
Mon., Nov. 25, 1991 Page 10
Jacqueline B. Moore,
homemaker
By Toni Lepeska
Clarion Ledger Staff Writer
LIBERTY - Jacqualine B. Moore, 83, a homemaker, died of heart failure Saturday at Southwest Mississippi Regional Medical Center in McComb.
Services are 2 p.m. today at East Fork Baptist Church in Amite County with burial in Esat Fork Cemetery. Visitation is 8 a.m. - 1:30 p.m. today at Hartman Funeral Home in McComb.
Mrs. Moore was apowerhouse, family and friends said.
"She was such a special and unique lady," said Stan Nowell,pastor of East Fork Baptist Churc, where Mrs. Moore was a member. Nowell discontinued services Sunday night so members could freely attend visitation.
"I have never known anyone her age with such a zest for life," he said.
"You don't find too many people so affectionate," Nowell said, "She would grab your hands and kiss your cheek. You couldn't help but fall in love with her."
Mrs. Moore's spirit did not come from a life of ease, said her son, Jerry Clower of Liberty, a well-known Mississippi humorist.
"My momma came up during the Depression, come up hard," he said. "She raised me and my brother. My father left. She worked and kept the family together."
Mrs. Moore was the widow of Ray Elliott Moore, whom she married when Clower was a boy.
An Amite County, native, Mrs. Clower was a Pink Lady volunteer at the Southwest Regional Medical Center. She was a member of the United Daughters of the Confederacy, the Womens Missionary Union and a Republican women's group.
"She never slowed down," said her granddaughter, Katy Clower of Liberty. "She never quit."
Other survivors include: son, Sonny Clower of Liberty; half brother, James Burns of Magnolia; seven grandchildren, eight great-grandchildren and two great great grandchildren.
Clarion-Ledger (Jackson, Mississippi)
Mon. Dec. 2, 1991 Page 9
Danny McKenzie's column appears Sunday, Monday, Wednesday and Friday
MORE THAN MY SHARE
I'm lucky in this job I get to meet more than my share of interesting people, and consequently, more tham my share of those "really special people."
When I met Mrs. Moore a year or so ago, I knew right away which category she was in. There was never any doubt.
Though she wasn't much bigger than a popcorn puff in a whirlwind, she was known as "Big Mama" to her sons Sonny and Jerry Clower, and to her grandchildren, great-grandchildren, and great-great-grandchildren.
She was 82 years old when I met her at the Southwest Mississippi Regional Medical Center in McComb. We had gone by to pick her up from her work as a "Pink Lady." She was taking care of others.
Last week in that same McComb hospital, Mrs. Moore died. The doctor said her heart just flat wore out on her.
No doubt, Lord knows, she used it enough during her 83 years on God's Good Earth. Truth be told, her heart also had its share of breaks along the way.
She grew up in Amite County and got married during the Depression. She had her two sons, thenher husband left her.
As good as people are, they can also be down-right cruel when a woman's poor and divorced.
JACQUELINE MOORE WAS ONE OF LIFE'S VERY SPECIAL PEOPLE
There is no possible was to grow a pineapple tree in Amite County.
Now, we all know that...don't we?
While the climate down around Liberty might very well feel downright tropical at times, we both know there is a bit of difference between Mississippi and Hawaii.
Mrs. Jacqueline Moore, however, never really considered that when her son Jerry Clower put her up in the Opryland Hotel in Nashville, and made sure a basket of fresh fruit was waiting for her.
All she knew was that it would be kind of nice to have her very own pineapple tree.
Mrs. Moore took the pineapple back home with her, planted it in a big pot, kept it inside during the iwnter and outside during the summer, and took care of it - loved it - throughout the year.
You got it; There's a pineapple tree on the front porch of her home.
When you stop and think about it, nwe all get to meet a lot of interesting people in our lives.
Every now and then, though, we're lucky enough to cross paths with a really special person - someone who ny their mere presence makes our whole day go better, someone whomakes us understand that we really can smile on the inside.
FAMILY WAS ALL THAT MATTERED
Mrs. Moore - rather Mrs. Clower - didn't really care about other people's pettiness, though. All she was concerned with was keeping her family together. She did.
Things got a bit better - financially and socially - a few years later when she married Ray Eliott Moore. The circumstances changed, but Mrs. Moore didn't.
But then Sonny and Jerry went off to fight in World War II, and then came the news they'd both been killed. Mrs. Moore never lost her faith, tough, and she soon learned they were both alive and well - and they both came home genuine war heroes.
Sonny had a successful career in the U.S. Navy, and Jerry learned how to sell fertilizer and make a whole lot of people laugh.
Mrs. Moore just kept on being Big Mama.
I remember last year when we went out with her and her youngest son, the one who tells all the funny stories, to eat lunch at a restaruant in McComb. Jerry was being Jerry and that was OK by Big Mama - to a point.
After he poked fun at everyone in the cafe for a few minutes, Mrs. Moore tugged on his rather large sleeve and told him to "be still." that he might embarrass somebody.
Her world famous, 64-year-old son hushed.
Mrs. Jacqueline Moore was something else.
Clarion Ledger ( Jackson, Mississippi)
Mon., Nov. 25, 1991 Page 10
Jacqueline B. Moore,
homemaker
By Toni Lepeska
Clarion Ledger Staff Writer
LIBERTY - Jacqualine B. Moore, 83, a homemaker, died of heart failure Saturday at Southwest Mississippi Regional Medical Center in McComb.
Services are 2 p.m. today at East Fork Baptist Church in Amite County with burial in Esat Fork Cemetery. Visitation is 8 a.m. - 1:30 p.m. today at Hartman Funeral Home in McComb.
Mrs. Moore was apowerhouse, family and friends said.
"She was such a special and unique lady," said Stan Nowell,pastor of East Fork Baptist Churc, where Mrs. Moore was a member. Nowell discontinued services Sunday night so members could freely attend visitation.
"I have never known anyone her age with such a zest for life," he said.
"You don't find too many people so affectionate," Nowell said, "She would grab your hands and kiss your cheek. You couldn't help but fall in love with her."
Mrs. Moore's spirit did not come from a life of ease, said her son, Jerry Clower of Liberty, a well-known Mississippi humorist.
"My momma came up during the Depression, come up hard," he said. "She raised me and my brother. My father left. She worked and kept the family together."
Mrs. Moore was the widow of Ray Elliott Moore, whom she married when Clower was a boy.
An Amite County, native, Mrs. Clower was a Pink Lady volunteer at the Southwest Regional Medical Center. She was a member of the United Daughters of the Confederacy, the Womens Missionary Union and a Republican women's group.
"She never slowed down," said her granddaughter, Katy Clower of Liberty. "She never quit."
Other survivors include: son, Sonny Clower of Liberty; half brother, James Burns of Magnolia; seven grandchildren, eight great-grandchildren and two great great grandchildren.
Clarion-Ledger (Jackson, Mississippi)
Mon. Dec. 2, 1991 Page 9
Danny McKenzie's column appears Sunday, Monday, Wednesday and Friday
MORE THAN MY SHARE
I'm lucky in this job I get to meet more than my share of interesting people, and consequently, more tham my share of those "really special people."
When I met Mrs. Moore a year or so ago, I knew right away which category she was in. There was never any doubt.
Though she wasn't much bigger than a popcorn puff in a whirlwind, she was known as "Big Mama" to her sons Sonny and Jerry Clower, and to her grandchildren, great-grandchildren, and great-great-grandchildren.
She was 82 years old when I met her at the Southwest Mississippi Regional Medical Center in McComb. We had gone by to pick her up from her work as a "Pink Lady." She was taking care of others.
Last week in that same McComb hospital, Mrs. Moore died. The doctor said her heart just flat wore out on her.
No doubt, Lord knows, she used it enough during her 83 years on God's Good Earth. Truth be told, her heart also had its share of breaks along the way.
She grew up in Amite County and got married during the Depression. She had her two sons, thenher husband left her.
As good as people are, they can also be down-right cruel when a woman's poor and divorced.
JACQUELINE MOORE WAS ONE OF LIFE'S VERY SPECIAL PEOPLE
There is no possible was to grow a pineapple tree in Amite County.
Now, we all know that...don't we?
While the climate down around Liberty might very well feel downright tropical at times, we both know there is a bit of difference between Mississippi and Hawaii.
Mrs. Jacqueline Moore, however, never really considered that when her son Jerry Clower put her up in the Opryland Hotel in Nashville, and made sure a basket of fresh fruit was waiting for her.
All she knew was that it would be kind of nice to have her very own pineapple tree.
Mrs. Moore took the pineapple back home with her, planted it in a big pot, kept it inside during the iwnter and outside during the summer, and took care of it - loved it - throughout the year.
You got it; There's a pineapple tree on the front porch of her home.
When you stop and think about it, nwe all get to meet a lot of interesting people in our lives.
Every now and then, though, we're lucky enough to cross paths with a really special person - someone who ny their mere presence makes our whole day go better, someone whomakes us understand that we really can smile on the inside.
FAMILY WAS ALL THAT MATTERED
Mrs. Moore - rather Mrs. Clower - didn't really care about other people's pettiness, though. All she was concerned with was keeping her family together. She did.
Things got a bit better - financially and socially - a few years later when she married Ray Eliott Moore. The circumstances changed, but Mrs. Moore didn't.
But then Sonny and Jerry went off to fight in World War II, and then came the news they'd both been killed. Mrs. Moore never lost her faith, tough, and she soon learned they were both alive and well - and they both came home genuine war heroes.
Sonny had a successful career in the U.S. Navy, and Jerry learned how to sell fertilizer and make a whole lot of people laugh.
Mrs. Moore just kept on being Big Mama.
I remember last year when we went out with her and her youngest son, the one who tells all the funny stories, to eat lunch at a restaruant in McComb. Jerry was being Jerry and that was OK by Big Mama - to a point.
After he poked fun at everyone in the cafe for a few minutes, Mrs. Moore tugged on his rather large sleeve and told him to "be still." that he might embarrass somebody.
Her world famous, 64-year-old son hushed.
Mrs. Jacqueline Moore was something else.
Article and Obit Contributed By: Debra Ann Click Shouhed FAG # (#48576588)
Clarion Ledger ( Jackson, Mississippi)
Mon., Nov. 25, 1991 Page 10
Jacqueline B. Moore,
homemaker
By Toni Lepeska
Clarion Ledger Staff Writer
LIBERTY - Jacqualine B. Moore, 83, a homemaker, died of heart failure Saturday at Southwest Mississippi Regional Medical Center in McComb.
Services are 2 p.m. today at East Fork Baptist Church in Amite County with burial in Esat Fork Cemetery. Visitation is 8 a.m. - 1:30 p.m. today at Hartman Funeral Home in McComb.
Mrs. Moore was apowerhouse, family and friends said.
"She was such a special and unique lady," said Stan Nowell,pastor of East Fork Baptist Churc, where Mrs. Moore was a member. Nowell discontinued services Sunday night so members could freely attend visitation.
"I have never known anyone her age with such a zest for life," he said.
"You don't find too many people so affectionate," Nowell said, "She would grab your hands and kiss your cheek. You couldn't help but fall in love with her."
Mrs. Moore's spirit did not come from a life of ease, said her son, Jerry Clower of Liberty, a well-known Mississippi humorist.
"My momma came up during the Depression, come up hard," he said. "She raised me and my brother. My father left. She worked and kept the family together."
Mrs. Moore was the widow of Ray Elliott Moore, whom she married when Clower was a boy.
An Amite County, native, Mrs. Clower was a Pink Lady volunteer at the Southwest Regional Medical Center. She was a member of the United Daughters of the Confederacy, the Womens Missionary Union and a Republican women's group.
"She never slowed down," said her granddaughter, Katy Clower of Liberty. "She never quit."
Other survivors include: son, Sonny Clower of Liberty; half brother, James Burns of Magnolia; seven grandchildren, eight great-grandchildren and two great great grandchildren.
Clarion-Ledger (Jackson, Mississippi)
Mon. Dec. 2, 1991 Page 9
Danny McKenzie's column appears Sunday, Monday, Wednesday and Friday
MORE THAN MY SHARE
I'm lucky in this job I get to meet more than my share of interesting people, and consequently, more tham my share of those "really special people."
When I met Mrs. Moore a year or so ago, I knew right away which category she was in. There was never any doubt.
Though she wasn't much bigger than a popcorn puff in a whirlwind, she was known as "Big Mama" to her sons Sonny and Jerry Clower, and to her grandchildren, great-grandchildren, and great-great-grandchildren.
She was 82 years old when I met her at the Southwest Mississippi Regional Medical Center in McComb. We had gone by to pick her up from her work as a "Pink Lady." She was taking care of others.
Last week in that same McComb hospital, Mrs. Moore died. The doctor said her heart just flat wore out on her.
No doubt, Lord knows, she used it enough during her 83 years on God's Good Earth. Truth be told, her heart also had its share of breaks along the way.
She grew up in Amite County and got married during the Depression. She had her two sons, thenher husband left her.
As good as people are, they can also be down-right cruel when a woman's poor and divorced.
JACQUELINE MOORE WAS ONE OF LIFE'S VERY SPECIAL PEOPLE
There is no possible was to grow a pineapple tree in Amite County.
Now, we all know that...don't we?
While the climate down around Liberty might very well feel downright tropical at times, we both know there is a bit of difference between Mississippi and Hawaii.
Mrs. Jacqueline Moore, however, never really considered that when her son Jerry Clower put her up in the Opryland Hotel in Nashville, and made sure a basket of fresh fruit was waiting for her.
All she knew was that it would be kind of nice to have her very own pineapple tree.
Mrs. Moore took the pineapple back home with her, planted it in a big pot, kept it inside during the iwnter and outside during the summer, and took care of it - loved it - throughout the year.
You got it; There's a pineapple tree on the front porch of her home.
When you stop and think about it, nwe all get to meet a lot of interesting people in our lives.
Every now and then, though, we're lucky enough to cross paths with a really special person - someone who ny their mere presence makes our whole day go better, someone whomakes us understand that we really can smile on the inside.
FAMILY WAS ALL THAT MATTERED
Mrs. Moore - rather Mrs. Clower - didn't really care about other people's pettiness, though. All she was concerned with was keeping her family together. She did.
Things got a bit better - financially and socially - a few years later when she married Ray Eliott Moore. The circumstances changed, but Mrs. Moore didn't.
But then Sonny and Jerry went off to fight in World War II, and then came the news they'd both been killed. Mrs. Moore never lost her faith, tough, and she soon learned they were both alive and well - and they both came home genuine war heroes.
Sonny had a successful career in the U.S. Navy, and Jerry learned how to sell fertilizer and make a whole lot of people laugh.
Mrs. Moore just kept on being Big Mama.
I remember last year when we went out with her and her youngest son, the one who tells all the funny stories, to eat lunch at a restaruant in McComb. Jerry was being Jerry and that was OK by Big Mama - to a point.
After he poked fun at everyone in the cafe for a few minutes, Mrs. Moore tugged on his rather large sleeve and told him to "be still." that he might embarrass somebody.
Her world famous, 64-year-old son hushed.
Mrs. Jacqueline Moore was something else.
Clarion Ledger ( Jackson, Mississippi)
Mon., Nov. 25, 1991 Page 10
Jacqueline B. Moore,
homemaker
By Toni Lepeska
Clarion Ledger Staff Writer
LIBERTY - Jacqualine B. Moore, 83, a homemaker, died of heart failure Saturday at Southwest Mississippi Regional Medical Center in McComb.
Services are 2 p.m. today at East Fork Baptist Church in Amite County with burial in Esat Fork Cemetery. Visitation is 8 a.m. - 1:30 p.m. today at Hartman Funeral Home in McComb.
Mrs. Moore was apowerhouse, family and friends said.
"She was such a special and unique lady," said Stan Nowell,pastor of East Fork Baptist Churc, where Mrs. Moore was a member. Nowell discontinued services Sunday night so members could freely attend visitation.
"I have never known anyone her age with such a zest for life," he said.
"You don't find too many people so affectionate," Nowell said, "She would grab your hands and kiss your cheek. You couldn't help but fall in love with her."
Mrs. Moore's spirit did not come from a life of ease, said her son, Jerry Clower of Liberty, a well-known Mississippi humorist.
"My momma came up during the Depression, come up hard," he said. "She raised me and my brother. My father left. She worked and kept the family together."
Mrs. Moore was the widow of Ray Elliott Moore, whom she married when Clower was a boy.
An Amite County, native, Mrs. Clower was a Pink Lady volunteer at the Southwest Regional Medical Center. She was a member of the United Daughters of the Confederacy, the Womens Missionary Union and a Republican women's group.
"She never slowed down," said her granddaughter, Katy Clower of Liberty. "She never quit."
Other survivors include: son, Sonny Clower of Liberty; half brother, James Burns of Magnolia; seven grandchildren, eight great-grandchildren and two great great grandchildren.
Clarion-Ledger (Jackson, Mississippi)
Mon. Dec. 2, 1991 Page 9
Danny McKenzie's column appears Sunday, Monday, Wednesday and Friday
MORE THAN MY SHARE
I'm lucky in this job I get to meet more than my share of interesting people, and consequently, more tham my share of those "really special people."
When I met Mrs. Moore a year or so ago, I knew right away which category she was in. There was never any doubt.
Though she wasn't much bigger than a popcorn puff in a whirlwind, she was known as "Big Mama" to her sons Sonny and Jerry Clower, and to her grandchildren, great-grandchildren, and great-great-grandchildren.
She was 82 years old when I met her at the Southwest Mississippi Regional Medical Center in McComb. We had gone by to pick her up from her work as a "Pink Lady." She was taking care of others.
Last week in that same McComb hospital, Mrs. Moore died. The doctor said her heart just flat wore out on her.
No doubt, Lord knows, she used it enough during her 83 years on God's Good Earth. Truth be told, her heart also had its share of breaks along the way.
She grew up in Amite County and got married during the Depression. She had her two sons, thenher husband left her.
As good as people are, they can also be down-right cruel when a woman's poor and divorced.
JACQUELINE MOORE WAS ONE OF LIFE'S VERY SPECIAL PEOPLE
There is no possible was to grow a pineapple tree in Amite County.
Now, we all know that...don't we?
While the climate down around Liberty might very well feel downright tropical at times, we both know there is a bit of difference between Mississippi and Hawaii.
Mrs. Jacqueline Moore, however, never really considered that when her son Jerry Clower put her up in the Opryland Hotel in Nashville, and made sure a basket of fresh fruit was waiting for her.
All she knew was that it would be kind of nice to have her very own pineapple tree.
Mrs. Moore took the pineapple back home with her, planted it in a big pot, kept it inside during the iwnter and outside during the summer, and took care of it - loved it - throughout the year.
You got it; There's a pineapple tree on the front porch of her home.
When you stop and think about it, nwe all get to meet a lot of interesting people in our lives.
Every now and then, though, we're lucky enough to cross paths with a really special person - someone who ny their mere presence makes our whole day go better, someone whomakes us understand that we really can smile on the inside.
FAMILY WAS ALL THAT MATTERED
Mrs. Moore - rather Mrs. Clower - didn't really care about other people's pettiness, though. All she was concerned with was keeping her family together. She did.
Things got a bit better - financially and socially - a few years later when she married Ray Eliott Moore. The circumstances changed, but Mrs. Moore didn't.
But then Sonny and Jerry went off to fight in World War II, and then came the news they'd both been killed. Mrs. Moore never lost her faith, tough, and she soon learned they were both alive and well - and they both came home genuine war heroes.
Sonny had a successful career in the U.S. Navy, and Jerry learned how to sell fertilizer and make a whole lot of people laugh.
Mrs. Moore just kept on being Big Mama.
I remember last year when we went out with her and her youngest son, the one who tells all the funny stories, to eat lunch at a restaruant in McComb. Jerry was being Jerry and that was OK by Big Mama - to a point.
After he poked fun at everyone in the cafe for a few minutes, Mrs. Moore tugged on his rather large sleeve and told him to "be still." that he might embarrass somebody.
Her world famous, 64-year-old son hushed.
Mrs. Jacqueline Moore was something else.
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