Marian (Grassmyer) Moore, 84

OCEAN CITY, N.J. - Marian (Grassmyer) Moore of Ocean City died, after a long battle with cancer, Wednesday, June 27, 2007, in Mainland Manor, Pleasantville. She was 84.

Mrs. Moore was born Dec. 26, 1922, in Altoona, Pa.

She attended Temple University School of Nursing, Philadelphia.

Mrs. Moore and her husband, during his career with the Pennsylvania Rail Road, lived in Baltimore, Wayne and Pittsburgh in Pennsylvania, Columbus and Toledo in Ohio, Indianapolis and Harrington, Del., and eventually retired in Dover, Del. The last 14 years, she enjoyed life in Ocean City.

In the early 1960s while in Harrington, she established her own business, Marian"s Catering, often working at the Lewes Yacht club and Henlopen Acres, Del. She continued her catering career at Garrisons Lake Golf Course, retiring in the mid-1980s.

She was a devoted mother to her family.

Mrs. Moore was a born leader. In Harrington, she was active in 4-H, co-chaired the Delmarva Chicken Festival, helped launch the Harrington Senior Center and, through her involvement with the Senior Center, started Meals on Wheels. She was a life member of the Harrington New Century Club, where she served in numerous capacities. She was president of the Harrington New Century Club, president of Kent County Federation of Women"s Clubs and state chairman of Hugh O"Brian Youth Leadership (HOBY). She also served on the Junior Board of Kent General Hospital. She was a member of the Asbury United Methodist Church and was very active in the Women"s Society of Christian Service, where one could often find her in the church kitchen. While in Ocean City, she was active in the Shore Memorial Hospital Women"s Auxiliary and the Ocean City Civic Club, was president of the local New Jersey Federation of Women"s Clubs, and served the Ocean City Historical Museum as past president, curator, chairman of the curatorial committee, trustee and volunteer for many years.

She was preceded in death by her husband, James D. Moore Jr. of Wayne, whom she had married Oct. 16, 1943, in 1983.

She is survived by three daughters and three sons-in-law, Becky and H. Terry Johnson of Millsboro, Del., Sarah K. and William Herster of Overland Park, Kan., and Ruth Ann and Brian Bosworth of Woodbury; two sons and a daughter-in-law, James D. "Chip" and Mitzie Moore of Concord, N.C., and Roy William Moore of Neustadt, Austria; seven grandchildren, Sallie Beth Johnson of Pinehurst, N.C., Margot Herster, and her husband, Scott Sullivan, of Austin, Texas, David Herster of Lenexa, Kan., Regina Bosworth and Katie Bosworth, both of Woodbury, and Dennison Moore and Elizabeth Brenner Moore, both of Concord.

Graveside services will be 1 p.m. Tuesday in the Great Valley Baptist Church, 945 N. Valley Forge Road, Devon, Pa.

The family suggests memorial contributions to the Ocean City Historical Museum Inc., 1735 Simpson Ave., Ocean City, NJ 08226.

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