Obituary for William Thurman Moore William Thurman Moore Plain Dealing, LA Funeral services for Mr. William Thurman Moore, age 89, will be held at 10:00 am, Thursday, October 4, 2018, at the Plain Dealing Baptist Church, Plain Dealing, LA, with Rev. Scott Teutsch officiating. Interment will follow in Plain Dealing Cemetery under the direction of Bailey Funeral Home, Plain Dealing.
Visitation will be held Wednesday, October 3, 2018, from 5:00 pm until 7:00 pm at the funeral home. Thurman was born on September 11, 1929 in Goldonna, Louisiana to Lawson and Myrle Thurman Moore. Lawson was a U.S. Postal carrier and Myrle, the youngest of eleven children, had recently earned her teaching certificate and come to Goldonna from Pinola, Mississippi to teach.
Lawson and Myrle had four sons: Lawson, Thurman, Allison and Harry; and two daughters: Jean and Joy. Thurman and Sue Zenter met at Northwestern State University. Before this, Thurman had served in the Marine Corps at the end of WWII on Guam in the South Pacific.
Sue was originally Fannie Ethel Zenter, named after her mother. Her grandmother said the name was too long for a baby and started calling her Sue. A picture of the house in which Sue was born on the same property Thurman and Sue have lived for 22 years hangs in the dining room of their home.
Sue and Thurman married at the home of Pastor Curtis Jones in Grand Cane where Sue was living. A picture of them cutting wedding cake on June 24, 1952 now hangs in a room of their house. After their marriage Sue and Thurman moved to Shreveport where they started their family and Thurman worked.
After twenty years with United Gas, Thurman accepted the position of comptroller at Highland Hospital in Shreveport. He guided the sale of the hospital and became administrator. After working at Bossier General Hospital for about three years, Thurman moved to the LSU Medical Center where he directed the outpatient clinics associated with the Medical Center and from which he retired.
Sue worked at home teaching piano and raising their family of three children: Jonathan Drew, Mark Stanley, and Janis Lane. Thurman and Sue were highly involved in the churches of which they were members. Thurman served as a deacon and as Chairman of the pulpit committee at Summer Grove Baptist that called 1971 Brother Billy Crosby to pastor the church.
After Thurman retired, he and Sue moved to Plain Dealing to live on the property on which she was born. Thurman again served as a deacon at Plain Dealing Baptist Church and as chairman of pulpit committee that called Reverend Donny Bradley as pastor. Thurman and Sue lived in Plain Dealing, on the property on which she was born, for 22 years.
Thurman passed away there on the morning of October 1, 2018. He was 89 years and 21 days old. Thurman is survived by his wife of 66 years, Sue; his children, Drew and wife Nancy, Stan and wife Donna, Janis and husband James Clevinger.
He is also lovingly remembered by 6 grandchildren, David and Jonathan Moore, Aimee Lowthorp and Evan Moore, Ben and Brad Clevinger; and two great-grandchildren, Mackenzie Moore and Addison Lowthorp. Mr. Moore was preceded in death by his parents; three brothers; and two sisters. Pallbearers will be Ben Clevinger, Evan Moore, David Moore, Jonathan Moore, Danny West, Ed Moore and Kerry West.
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