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Luther Moore III
Posted 6/25/07
Luther "Bud" Moore III, 75 REHOBOTH BEACH - Luther "Bud" Moore III, a longtime resident of Rehoboth Beach, passed away Friday, June 22, 2007, at Green Valley Terrace, Millsboro, after a long illness. …
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Luther Moore III
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Luther "Bud" Moore III, 75
REHOBOTH BEACH - Luther "Bud" Moore III, a longtime resident of Rehoboth Beach, passed away Friday, June 22, 2007, at Green Valley Terrace, Millsboro, after a long illness. He was 75.
Mr. Moore was born in Valdosta, Ga., the oldest son of the late Luther B. II and Lillian (Wilkes) Moore.
He was raised in Salisbury, Md., and while still a student at Wicomico High School, he enlisted in the U.S. Air Force during the Korean War.
Mr. Moore later met and married Abigail Ralph of Salisbury while still a student at Washington College where he earned his bachelor"s degree.
In the course of a 35-year career with Westinghouse, he served as speech writer for several corporate chairmen and spent three years in Paris as director of international public relations. He retired as the director of executive communications.
Mr. Moore was a member of the Arthur W. Page Society, an association of senior corporate public relation executives.
He had a summer house in Rehoboth Beach for more than 35 years before retiring there in 1994. He was a frequent and always entertaining guest of his lifelong friends, Jack and Carol Hyde, at their home in Rehoboth Beach.
A writer by vocation and avocation, Mr. Moore was a voracious reader and avid student of the English language. He maintained a large collection of both prescriptive and descriptive dictionaries and knew the difference. Among his favorite authors were Ernest Hemingway, Patrick O"Brian and W. Somerset Maugham. Much of his reading was devoted to history. He spent years engaged in studying the lives of Thomas Jefferson, Teddy Roosevelt and Winston Churchill.
A lifelong athlete, Mr. Moore ran track at Wicomico High School and the U.S. Military Academy at West Point. Four years after a car accident in which he broke his left arm and leg, he ran the Pittsburgh Marathon at the age of 53. He later competed in Olympic distance triathlons and at the age of 68 was still logging more than 100 miles a week on his bicycle.
He is survived by his wife, Gail; his sons, Mark and wife Patricia, Scott and wife Jessica, Shawn and wife Jan and Christian and wife Kristen; five grandchildren, Liam, Nigel, Alex, Kate and Olivia; and his sister-in-law, Charlotte "Mimi" Weiland.
His sister, Jacqulin Moore, passed away in 1998.
Mass of Christian Burial will be celebrated at 10 a.m. Tuesday at St. Edmond"s Catholic Church, King Charles and Laurel streets, Rehoboth Beach. There will be no calling hours. Burial will be private at Epworth Methodist Cemetery, Rehoboth Beach.
In lieu of flowers, contributions are suggested to the Sussex YMCA, 105 Church St., Rehoboth Beach, DE 19971; or World Vision, P.O. BOX 9716, Federal Way, Washington, D.C. 98063-9716.
Arrangements are being handled by Parsell Funeral Homes & Crematorium, Lewes.
REHOBOTH BEACH - Luther "Bud" Moore III, a longtime resident of Rehoboth Beach, passed away Friday, June 22, 2007, at Green Valley Terrace, Millsboro, after a long illness. He was 75.
Mr. Moore was born in Valdosta, Ga., the oldest son of the late Luther B. II and Lillian (Wilkes) Moore.
He was raised in Salisbury, Md., and while still a student at Wicomico High School, he enlisted in the U.S. Air Force during the Korean War.
Mr. Moore later met and married Abigail Ralph of Salisbury while still a student at Washington College where he earned his bachelor"s degree.
In the course of a 35-year career with Westinghouse, he served as speech writer for several corporate chairmen and spent three years in Paris as director of international public relations. He retired as the director of executive communications.
Mr. Moore was a member of the Arthur W. Page Society, an association of senior corporate public relation executives.
He had a summer house in Rehoboth Beach for more than 35 years before retiring there in 1994. He was a frequent and always entertaining guest of his lifelong friends, Jack and Carol Hyde, at their home in Rehoboth Beach.
A writer by vocation and avocation, Mr. Moore was a voracious reader and avid student of the English language. He maintained a large collection of both prescriptive and descriptive dictionaries and knew the difference. Among his favorite authors were Ernest Hemingway, Patrick O"Brian and W. Somerset Maugham. Much of his reading was devoted to history. He spent years engaged in studying the lives of Thomas Jefferson, Teddy Roosevelt and Winston Churchill.
A lifelong athlete, Mr. Moore ran track at Wicomico High School and the U.S. Military Academy at West Point. Four years after a car accident in which he broke his left arm and leg, he ran the Pittsburgh Marathon at the age of 53. He later competed in Olympic distance triathlons and at the age of 68 was still logging more than 100 miles a week on his bicycle.
He is survived by his wife, Gail; his sons, Mark and wife Patricia, Scott and wife Jessica, Shawn and wife Jan and Christian and wife Kristen; five grandchildren, Liam, Nigel, Alex, Kate and Olivia; and his sister-in-law, Charlotte "Mimi" Weiland.
His sister, Jacqulin Moore, passed away in 1998.
Mass of Christian Burial will be celebrated at 10 a.m. Tuesday at St. Edmond"s Catholic Church, King Charles and Laurel streets, Rehoboth Beach. There will be no calling hours. Burial will be private at Epworth Methodist Cemetery, Rehoboth Beach.
In lieu of flowers, contributions are suggested to the Sussex YMCA, 105 Church St., Rehoboth Beach, DE 19971; or World Vision, P.O. BOX 9716, Federal Way, Washington, D.C. 98063-9716.
Arrangements are being handled by Parsell Funeral Homes & Crematorium, Lewes.
