Born in Three Oaks, Michigan, to Reeves Samuel and Minnie (Sauers) Moore of Rolling Prairie, Indiana. He graduated from Rolling Prairie High School, where he played baseball, in 1918. As a teenager and young adult, he was a market hunter for ducks, which later developed into a lifelong love of hunting and fishing. He began working as a machinist at the Rumley plant in La Porte, where he would meet his wife, Meta, and walk her home from her job at the telephone exchange.
Married Meta Ann Hannemann of La Porte, Indiana, in a civil ceremony at St. Joseph, Michigan, on April 28, 1923. Unable to have biological children, together they adopted one daughter at birth:
1. Sharon Madyne Moore (b. September 4, 1934, in La Porte, Indiana, as Jane Partington)
After breaking his arm in a work accident, he was in the hospital when his daughter was born, and his doctor facilitated her adoption. Six months later, Claude and his family would leave La Porte for Waterloo, Iowa, where he was employed at John Deere. He ended his career as a supervisor, and spent his final year with John Deere in New Orleans, where he supervised the international shipment of farm equipment. After his retirement in 1966, he and his wife split time between their home in Cedar Falls, Iowa; a vacation home in Avon Park, Florida; and their daughter's home in La Porte.
He died at the hospital in La Porte of COPD on August 6, 1989. He was buried next to his wife at Union Mills on August 9, 1989.
Obituary from the Waterloo Courier - August 8, 1989
Services for Claude H. Moore, 89, of La Porte, Ind., formerly of Waterloo, will be 11 a.m. Wednesday at Cutler Funeral Home, La Porte, Ind., with burial in Union Mills Cemetery, Union Mills, Ind. Mr. Moore died Sunday (Aug. 6) at La Porte Hospital after a lengthy illness. He was born March 29, 1900, in Three Oaks, Mich., son of Reeves and Minnie Sauers Moore. He married Meta Ann "Peg" Hanneman on April 28, 1923, in St. Joseph, Mich. She died in 1974. He was employed for 33 years at Deere & Co., retiring in 1966. He was a charter member of Grace Lutheran Church of Waterloo and the John Deere Credit Union. Survivors include a daughter, Sharon Whitacre of La Porte, Ind. ; four grandchildren; and a sister, Pauline Van Dusen of Rolling Prairie, Ind. He was preceded in death by a brother. Visitation will be 5 to 9 p.m. today at the funeral home. Memorials may be made to Bethany Lutheran Church, La Porte, Ind.
Married Meta Ann Hannemann of La Porte, Indiana, in a civil ceremony at St. Joseph, Michigan, on April 28, 1923. Unable to have biological children, together they adopted one daughter at birth:
1. Sharon Madyne Moore (b. September 4, 1934, in La Porte, Indiana, as Jane Partington)
After breaking his arm in a work accident, he was in the hospital when his daughter was born, and his doctor facilitated her adoption. Six months later, Claude and his family would leave La Porte for Waterloo, Iowa, where he was employed at John Deere. He ended his career as a supervisor, and spent his final year with John Deere in New Orleans, where he supervised the international shipment of farm equipment. After his retirement in 1966, he and his wife split time between their home in Cedar Falls, Iowa; a vacation home in Avon Park, Florida; and their daughter's home in La Porte.
He died at the hospital in La Porte of COPD on August 6, 1989. He was buried next to his wife at Union Mills on August 9, 1989.
Obituary from the Waterloo Courier - August 8, 1989
Services for Claude H. Moore, 89, of La Porte, Ind., formerly of Waterloo, will be 11 a.m. Wednesday at Cutler Funeral Home, La Porte, Ind., with burial in Union Mills Cemetery, Union Mills, Ind. Mr. Moore died Sunday (Aug. 6) at La Porte Hospital after a lengthy illness. He was born March 29, 1900, in Three Oaks, Mich., son of Reeves and Minnie Sauers Moore. He married Meta Ann "Peg" Hanneman on April 28, 1923, in St. Joseph, Mich. She died in 1974. He was employed for 33 years at Deere & Co., retiring in 1966. He was a charter member of Grace Lutheran Church of Waterloo and the John Deere Credit Union. Survivors include a daughter, Sharon Whitacre of La Porte, Ind. ; four grandchildren; and a sister, Pauline Van Dusen of Rolling Prairie, Ind. He was preceded in death by a brother. Visitation will be 5 to 9 p.m. today at the funeral home. Memorials may be made to Bethany Lutheran Church, La Porte, Ind.
Born in Three Oaks, Michigan, to Reeves Samuel and Minnie (Sauers) Moore of Rolling Prairie, Indiana. He graduated from Rolling Prairie High School, where he played baseball, in 1918. As a teenager and young adult, he was a market hunter for ducks, which later developed into a lifelong love of hunting and fishing. He began working as a machinist at the Rumley plant in La Porte, where he would meet his wife, Meta, and walk her home from her job at the telephone exchange.
Married Meta Ann Hannemann of La Porte, Indiana, in a civil ceremony at St. Joseph, Michigan, on April 28, 1923. Unable to have biological children, together they adopted one daughter at birth:
1. Sharon Madyne Moore (b. September 4, 1934, in La Porte, Indiana, as Jane Partington)
After breaking his arm in a work accident, he was in the hospital when his daughter was born, and his doctor facilitated her adoption. Six months later, Claude and his family would leave La Porte for Waterloo, Iowa, where he was employed at John Deere. He ended his career as a supervisor, and spent his final year with John Deere in New Orleans, where he supervised the international shipment of farm equipment. After his retirement in 1966, he and his wife split time between their home in Cedar Falls, Iowa; a vacation home in Avon Park, Florida; and their daughter's home in La Porte.
He died at the hospital in La Porte of COPD on August 6, 1989. He was buried next to his wife at Union Mills on August 9, 1989.
Obituary from the Waterloo Courier - August 8, 1989
Services for Claude H. Moore, 89, of La Porte, Ind., formerly of Waterloo, will be 11 a.m. Wednesday at Cutler Funeral Home, La Porte, Ind., with burial in Union Mills Cemetery, Union Mills, Ind. Mr. Moore died Sunday (Aug. 6) at La Porte Hospital after a lengthy illness. He was born March 29, 1900, in Three Oaks, Mich., son of Reeves and Minnie Sauers Moore. He married Meta Ann "Peg" Hanneman on April 28, 1923, in St. Joseph, Mich. She died in 1974. He was employed for 33 years at Deere & Co., retiring in 1966. He was a charter member of Grace Lutheran Church of Waterloo and the John Deere Credit Union. Survivors include a daughter, Sharon Whitacre of La Porte, Ind. ; four grandchildren; and a sister, Pauline Van Dusen of Rolling Prairie, Ind. He was preceded in death by a brother. Visitation will be 5 to 9 p.m. today at the funeral home. Memorials may be made to Bethany Lutheran Church, La Porte, Ind.
Married Meta Ann Hannemann of La Porte, Indiana, in a civil ceremony at St. Joseph, Michigan, on April 28, 1923. Unable to have biological children, together they adopted one daughter at birth:
1. Sharon Madyne Moore (b. September 4, 1934, in La Porte, Indiana, as Jane Partington)
After breaking his arm in a work accident, he was in the hospital when his daughter was born, and his doctor facilitated her adoption. Six months later, Claude and his family would leave La Porte for Waterloo, Iowa, where he was employed at John Deere. He ended his career as a supervisor, and spent his final year with John Deere in New Orleans, where he supervised the international shipment of farm equipment. After his retirement in 1966, he and his wife split time between their home in Cedar Falls, Iowa; a vacation home in Avon Park, Florida; and their daughter's home in La Porte.
He died at the hospital in La Porte of COPD on August 6, 1989. He was buried next to his wife at Union Mills on August 9, 1989.
Obituary from the Waterloo Courier - August 8, 1989
Services for Claude H. Moore, 89, of La Porte, Ind., formerly of Waterloo, will be 11 a.m. Wednesday at Cutler Funeral Home, La Porte, Ind., with burial in Union Mills Cemetery, Union Mills, Ind. Mr. Moore died Sunday (Aug. 6) at La Porte Hospital after a lengthy illness. He was born March 29, 1900, in Three Oaks, Mich., son of Reeves and Minnie Sauers Moore. He married Meta Ann "Peg" Hanneman on April 28, 1923, in St. Joseph, Mich. She died in 1974. He was employed for 33 years at Deere & Co., retiring in 1966. He was a charter member of Grace Lutheran Church of Waterloo and the John Deere Credit Union. Survivors include a daughter, Sharon Whitacre of La Porte, Ind. ; four grandchildren; and a sister, Pauline Van Dusen of Rolling Prairie, Ind. He was preceded in death by a brother. Visitation will be 5 to 9 p.m. today at the funeral home. Memorials may be made to Bethany Lutheran Church, La Porte, Ind.
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