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Submitted: 11/2/18 • Approved: 8/22/23 • Last Updated: 8/25/23 • R1243161-G0-S3
December 9, 1902 - January 4, 1966
Dr. berry Lee Moore, Sr, 63, of 1800 N. Madison Ave., died Tuesday night at a local hospital after a brief illness. A prominent El Dorado physician and surgeon, he was a lifelong resident of Union County. Born Dec. 9, 1902, at Lisbon, he was the son of Dr. J. A. and Daisy Graham Moore. He was a member of the First Baptist Church of El Dorado and the Men's Theater Bible Class of the church. Dr. Moore was a member of a pioneer Union County family. He was educated in the local schools and graduated from the University of Arkansas and its School of Medicaine. He interned at Charity Hospital in New Orleans. He was a member of Sigma Alpha Epsilon Fraternity. He had practiced medicine and surgery in El Dorado since 1934, first with his father, the late Dr. J. A. Moore, and in recent years with his son, Dr. Berry Lee Moore, Jr. He was a former chief of staff of Warner Brown Hospital. During his career Dr. Moore earned many honors in his profession. He was a Fellow in and life member of the American College of Surgeons and a Fellow in Pan American College of Surgeons. He was a former president of the Union County Medical Society and of the local Lions Club. At the time of his death he was president of the Union County Medical Scholarship Foundation. (Contributions to this foundation may be made as memorials to Dr. Moore by contacting Arien Waldrip at the First National Bank.) Survivors include his widow, Mrs. Athelene West Moore; two sons, Dr. Berry Lee Moore, Jr., El Dorado, and Dr. John Henry Moore, New Orleans; a daughter, Mrs. George Berry, Lubbock, Tex.; a sister, Mrs. Dick Smith, El Dorado; a brother, J. Walter Moore, El Dorado; and eight grandchildren. Funeral services will be at 2 p.m. Thursday at the First Baptist Church with Dr. Don Harbuck officiating. Burial will be in Woodlawn Cemetery by Young's. Active pallbearers will be Mark Breimo, Ingram Hartje, Isaac Wilson, Dr. Joe B. Wharton, Clark Barton, Emon Mahony, Dr. Rex Barrow and Sam Babb. Members of the Union County Medical Society will be honorary pallbearers. (The El Dorado Times - January 5, 1966)
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