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Choctaw Nation Bishinik
March 2007
Submitted by: Carol Spear Rice

Virginia Evelyn Moore

December 24, 1922 ~ February 4, 2007

Virginia Evelyn Moore, 84, of Pittsburg, Oklahoma, passed away February 4, 2007 at McAlester Regional Health Center. She was Born December 24, 1922 in Blanco, Oklahoma to Cornelius E. and Mary Jane Ward.

She attended school at Wheelock and later attended school in Smithville. During World War II, she and her sisters moved to California where she worked as a welder in the ship yards, building battleships for the war. Virginia married Walter L. Moore on July 13, 1955 in Tucumcari, New Mexico. She later moved to Pittsburg where she lived most of her life. Virginia enjoyed watching her children play sports during their school years and later spending time with her family around the television while her favorite team, the Oklahoma Sooners, played ball. She was a long time member of the Pittsburg Baptist Church.

She was preceded in death by her parents; a son, James Charles Spear; and two sisters, Ruth Burnett and Dorcy Wren.

Survivors include her husband, Jerry, of the home; her children and their spouses, Wanda Akins of Dallas, Texas, Wayne and Pat Akins of El Reno, Harold Akins and wife Helen of Ardmore, Oklahoma, Carol Rice and husband Jimmy of Pittsburg, Joyce Church and husband Cecil of Kiowa, Oklahoma, Doug Spear of Ardmore, Ron Spear of Dallas, Texas, Nancy Hailey and husband Mike of Shawnee, Oklahoma and Stan Moore of Pittsburg; 17 grandchildren; numerous great grandchildren and a sister, Ruby Anderson of Tuskahoma.

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