Obit – Mr. Joe Moore
Mr. Joe Moore age 90 of the Granville Community was pronounced deceased at 10:50 a.m. Monday morning March 24, 2025 at the Quality Center for Rehabilitation and Healing in Lebanon where he was admitted one month earlier on February 24th for therapy.
Mr. Moore is at the Carthage Chapel of Sanderson Funeral Home. Graveside services and interment for family and friends will be conducted at the Carver Cemetery on Carverdale Farms in the Liberty Community of Jackson County near Granville on Wednesday April 16th at 1 p.m. Church of Christ ministers, Clarence Deloach and Roy Johnson will officiate.
Following the graveside services the family will receive friends at the Granville Event Center in the Granville Community.
Born Joseph Sheridan Moore at the former Dr. William A. Howard Hospital in Cookeville on August 3, 1934, he was one of two children, a son and a daughter, of the late Donald H. Moore who died April 21, 1995 at the age of 88 and Thelma Ashley Carver Moore who died October 9, 1994 at the age of 83.
His only sibling, a sister, Donneita Carver Moore Lampley, of Mineral Wells, Texas, preceded Mr. Moore in death on November 5, 2018 at the age of 86.
He was educated at the Jackson County High School where he graduated in 1952 and participated in agriculture under the late Robert Montgomery Fox.
Born a farmer, lived as a farmer, and died as a farmer, he was named the FFA Star Farmer of America in 1955 and attained what few rural young men could accomplish when he appeared on the cover of Time Magazine in the October 24, 1955 issue.
At the Richmond Chapel Church of Christ in Jackson County, he was united in marriage to the former Ruth Ann Huffines on September 1, 1956 with the wedding being officiated by his former Vo-ag teacher, Robert M. Fox.
Mr. Moore was a member of the Liberty Church of Christ near Granville and was baptized into Christ at the age of 18 at the Carthage Church of Christ.
Mr. Moore also served the Liberty congregation as an Elder.
The family’s beloved Carverdale Farms is a Century Farm as designated in 2007 by the State of Tennessee, meaning it has been in the same family for over 100 years.
Also, on July 31, 2018 the farm was recognized by the United States Government as a National Historic Farm and was so marked by a plaque.
In addition to his farm life, he was the owner and operator of Upper Cumberland Oil Co. in Cookeville, the distributor of Texaco petroleum products for almost 30 years.
Active in the Granville Community, he was one of the original founding Board of Directors of the Granville Museum and at the time of his death was Director Emeritus of the Board of Directors.
Surviving in addition to his wife, Ann, of over sixty-eight years, are his son, Samuel Leach Moore and wife Tammy Gribble Moore and their two children, Carver Gribble Moore and Olivia Ann Moore all of Cookeville.
The Moore family has requested memorials to either one of the following; the Granville Museum P.O. Box 26, Granville, Tennessee 38564, the Tennessee FFA Foundation % Tennessee Tech University, TTU Box 5034, Cookeville, Tennessee 38505 or the Magnolia Foundation, P. O. Box 2252, Cookeville, Tennessee 38502.
Also, any of these memorials may be made by calling or coming by Sanderson in Carthage.
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