LEOTA I. MOORE was the daughter of John George Moore and Mrs. Eliza Jane (Barnett) Moore.
"Miss Leota Moore Retires After 41 Years of Sales Work ---
On Tuesday, Miss Leota Moore was observing her fifth day fo retirement -- an event which climaxed 41 years of sales work in five different Tyler general merchandise and department stores. Miss Moore ended 18 years of employment with K. Wolens Department Store, at 107 North Spring, on the last day of 1954, and thereby stepped into retirement for a permanent job of keeping house at her new residence at 1404 Mockingbird Lane, with her sister, Miss Addie Belle Moore. Miss Moore left high school as a girl and took her first job while on a shopping tour with her mother. While her mother stepped into a general merchandise store located on the south side of the square, Miss Moore asked its owner, a Mr. Lienbreich, for a job. Miss Moore was hired and remained in that store for three years. She then went to Emmet and Emmet, another general merchandise store nearby on the south side of the square. She remained there for three years. Miss Moore then went to Goldstein and Brown, located on what is now the Peoples Bank location, and she was a salesgirl for 19 years. Next, she was with the W.H. Naylor Department Store for eight years, and thence to K. Wolens where she has worked for the past 18 years. Before her retirement, Meyer Franks, manager of K. Wolens, gave Miss Moore a surprise party at his residence. The other hosts were employees of the store. Miss Moore's current plans are to keep house. She and her sister purchased the new house Monday after selling their former home on West Wilson. About the public buying, Miss Moore says it's harder to make sales than it used to be. This, she says, is because people are becoming more discriminate about the articles they purchase."
Miss Leota Moore passed away on March 27, 1971 after an extended stay at West Texas Medical Center in Abilene, Texas.
Obituary
"Miss Moore Rites Monday ---
Funeral services for Miss Leota Moore, 80, of Abilene, are set at 10 a.m. Monday in the chapel of Burks-Walker-Tippit Funeral Home with the Rev. William Jones officiating. Burial will be in Rose Hill Cemetery. Miss Moore died in Abilene after a lengthy illness. She was a former Tyler resident, and she had been in Abilene for the past seven years. She was a retired sales clerk for K. Wolens Department Store in Tyler. She was a member of the First Presbyterian Church of Tyler. Survivors include a sister, Miss Addie Belle Moore, of Abilene."
Upon her passing, she was returned to her hometown where she was laid to rest on the grounds of Rose Hill Cemetery in Tyler, Texas.
Funeral arrangements were initiated by Kiker-Warren Funeral Home Inc.
Her sister, Addie Bell Moore, was the informant on the death certificate.
Sources ~ Obituary Published in the Sunday, March 28, 1971 Edition of The Tyler Courier-Times [a newspaper of Tyler, Texas]; and Feature Article "Miss Leota Moore Retires" as published in the Wednesday, January 5, 1955 edition of the Tyler Morning Telegraph [a newspaper of Tyler, Texas]; along with Texas Death Certificate #21519
"Miss Leota Moore Retires After 41 Years of Sales Work ---
On Tuesday, Miss Leota Moore was observing her fifth day fo retirement -- an event which climaxed 41 years of sales work in five different Tyler general merchandise and department stores. Miss Moore ended 18 years of employment with K. Wolens Department Store, at 107 North Spring, on the last day of 1954, and thereby stepped into retirement for a permanent job of keeping house at her new residence at 1404 Mockingbird Lane, with her sister, Miss Addie Belle Moore. Miss Moore left high school as a girl and took her first job while on a shopping tour with her mother. While her mother stepped into a general merchandise store located on the south side of the square, Miss Moore asked its owner, a Mr. Lienbreich, for a job. Miss Moore was hired and remained in that store for three years. She then went to Emmet and Emmet, another general merchandise store nearby on the south side of the square. She remained there for three years. Miss Moore then went to Goldstein and Brown, located on what is now the Peoples Bank location, and she was a salesgirl for 19 years. Next, she was with the W.H. Naylor Department Store for eight years, and thence to K. Wolens where she has worked for the past 18 years. Before her retirement, Meyer Franks, manager of K. Wolens, gave Miss Moore a surprise party at his residence. The other hosts were employees of the store. Miss Moore's current plans are to keep house. She and her sister purchased the new house Monday after selling their former home on West Wilson. About the public buying, Miss Moore says it's harder to make sales than it used to be. This, she says, is because people are becoming more discriminate about the articles they purchase."
Miss Leota Moore passed away on March 27, 1971 after an extended stay at West Texas Medical Center in Abilene, Texas.
Obituary
"Miss Moore Rites Monday ---
Funeral services for Miss Leota Moore, 80, of Abilene, are set at 10 a.m. Monday in the chapel of Burks-Walker-Tippit Funeral Home with the Rev. William Jones officiating. Burial will be in Rose Hill Cemetery. Miss Moore died in Abilene after a lengthy illness. She was a former Tyler resident, and she had been in Abilene for the past seven years. She was a retired sales clerk for K. Wolens Department Store in Tyler. She was a member of the First Presbyterian Church of Tyler. Survivors include a sister, Miss Addie Belle Moore, of Abilene."
Upon her passing, she was returned to her hometown where she was laid to rest on the grounds of Rose Hill Cemetery in Tyler, Texas.
Funeral arrangements were initiated by Kiker-Warren Funeral Home Inc.
Her sister, Addie Bell Moore, was the informant on the death certificate.
Sources ~ Obituary Published in the Sunday, March 28, 1971 Edition of The Tyler Courier-Times [a newspaper of Tyler, Texas]; and Feature Article "Miss Leota Moore Retires" as published in the Wednesday, January 5, 1955 edition of the Tyler Morning Telegraph [a newspaper of Tyler, Texas]; along with Texas Death Certificate #21519
LEOTA I. MOORE was the daughter of John George Moore and Mrs. Eliza Jane (Barnett) Moore.
"Miss Leota Moore Retires After 41 Years of Sales Work ---
On Tuesday, Miss Leota Moore was observing her fifth day fo retirement -- an event which climaxed 41 years of sales work in five different Tyler general merchandise and department stores. Miss Moore ended 18 years of employment with K. Wolens Department Store, at 107 North Spring, on the last day of 1954, and thereby stepped into retirement for a permanent job of keeping house at her new residence at 1404 Mockingbird Lane, with her sister, Miss Addie Belle Moore. Miss Moore left high school as a girl and took her first job while on a shopping tour with her mother. While her mother stepped into a general merchandise store located on the south side of the square, Miss Moore asked its owner, a Mr. Lienbreich, for a job. Miss Moore was hired and remained in that store for three years. She then went to Emmet and Emmet, another general merchandise store nearby on the south side of the square. She remained there for three years. Miss Moore then went to Goldstein and Brown, located on what is now the Peoples Bank location, and she was a salesgirl for 19 years. Next, she was with the W.H. Naylor Department Store for eight years, and thence to K. Wolens where she has worked for the past 18 years. Before her retirement, Meyer Franks, manager of K. Wolens, gave Miss Moore a surprise party at his residence. The other hosts were employees of the store. Miss Moore's current plans are to keep house. She and her sister purchased the new house Monday after selling their former home on West Wilson. About the public buying, Miss Moore says it's harder to make sales than it used to be. This, she says, is because people are becoming more discriminate about the articles they purchase."
Miss Leota Moore passed away on March 27, 1971 after an extended stay at West Texas Medical Center in Abilene, Texas.
Obituary
"Miss Moore Rites Monday ---
Funeral services for Miss Leota Moore, 80, of Abilene, are set at 10 a.m. Monday in the chapel of Burks-Walker-Tippit Funeral Home with the Rev. William Jones officiating. Burial will be in Rose Hill Cemetery. Miss Moore died in Abilene after a lengthy illness. She was a former Tyler resident, and she had been in Abilene for the past seven years. She was a retired sales clerk for K. Wolens Department Store in Tyler. She was a member of the First Presbyterian Church of Tyler. Survivors include a sister, Miss Addie Belle Moore, of Abilene."
Upon her passing, she was returned to her hometown where she was laid to rest on the grounds of Rose Hill Cemetery in Tyler, Texas.
Funeral arrangements were initiated by Kiker-Warren Funeral Home Inc.
Her sister, Addie Bell Moore, was the informant on the death certificate.
Sources ~ Obituary Published in the Sunday, March 28, 1971 Edition of The Tyler Courier-Times [a newspaper of Tyler, Texas]; and Feature Article "Miss Leota Moore Retires" as published in the Wednesday, January 5, 1955 edition of the Tyler Morning Telegraph [a newspaper of Tyler, Texas]; along with Texas Death Certificate #21519
"Miss Leota Moore Retires After 41 Years of Sales Work ---
On Tuesday, Miss Leota Moore was observing her fifth day fo retirement -- an event which climaxed 41 years of sales work in five different Tyler general merchandise and department stores. Miss Moore ended 18 years of employment with K. Wolens Department Store, at 107 North Spring, on the last day of 1954, and thereby stepped into retirement for a permanent job of keeping house at her new residence at 1404 Mockingbird Lane, with her sister, Miss Addie Belle Moore. Miss Moore left high school as a girl and took her first job while on a shopping tour with her mother. While her mother stepped into a general merchandise store located on the south side of the square, Miss Moore asked its owner, a Mr. Lienbreich, for a job. Miss Moore was hired and remained in that store for three years. She then went to Emmet and Emmet, another general merchandise store nearby on the south side of the square. She remained there for three years. Miss Moore then went to Goldstein and Brown, located on what is now the Peoples Bank location, and she was a salesgirl for 19 years. Next, she was with the W.H. Naylor Department Store for eight years, and thence to K. Wolens where she has worked for the past 18 years. Before her retirement, Meyer Franks, manager of K. Wolens, gave Miss Moore a surprise party at his residence. The other hosts were employees of the store. Miss Moore's current plans are to keep house. She and her sister purchased the new house Monday after selling their former home on West Wilson. About the public buying, Miss Moore says it's harder to make sales than it used to be. This, she says, is because people are becoming more discriminate about the articles they purchase."
Miss Leota Moore passed away on March 27, 1971 after an extended stay at West Texas Medical Center in Abilene, Texas.
Obituary
"Miss Moore Rites Monday ---
Funeral services for Miss Leota Moore, 80, of Abilene, are set at 10 a.m. Monday in the chapel of Burks-Walker-Tippit Funeral Home with the Rev. William Jones officiating. Burial will be in Rose Hill Cemetery. Miss Moore died in Abilene after a lengthy illness. She was a former Tyler resident, and she had been in Abilene for the past seven years. She was a retired sales clerk for K. Wolens Department Store in Tyler. She was a member of the First Presbyterian Church of Tyler. Survivors include a sister, Miss Addie Belle Moore, of Abilene."
Upon her passing, she was returned to her hometown where she was laid to rest on the grounds of Rose Hill Cemetery in Tyler, Texas.
Funeral arrangements were initiated by Kiker-Warren Funeral Home Inc.
Her sister, Addie Bell Moore, was the informant on the death certificate.
Sources ~ Obituary Published in the Sunday, March 28, 1971 Edition of The Tyler Courier-Times [a newspaper of Tyler, Texas]; and Feature Article "Miss Leota Moore Retires" as published in the Wednesday, January 5, 1955 edition of the Tyler Morning Telegraph [a newspaper of Tyler, Texas]; along with Texas Death Certificate #21519
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