MOORE JESSE L

MAJ Jesse L. Moore was a VHPA member who died after his tour in Vietnam on 03/22/2010 at the age of 70.4
Telephone, TX
Flight Class 66-10
Date of Birth 11/13/1939
Served in the U.S. Army
Served in Vietnam with 48 AHC in 65-66
Call sign in Vietnam JOKER 10
This information was provided by Carl Cortez

More detail on this person: I attended Jesse's grave side services today and the friends and family were very appreciative of our thoughtfulness in attending. I would like to ask those of you who knew Jesse during his tour or from any other time to let me know your thoughts/memories etc. so that I can forward them to his daughter and/or put her in contact with any of you who want to correspond.

I have included his obituary, but I wanted to let you know, that he had a large number of people at his funeral. He was well respected and much loved by the people that he grew up with and knew from his work. The first thing that a couple of them was that he was proud to be a Joker and that he would regale them with funny stories. He said all you need to get through life is Air Speed, Altitude and a good Attitude, most of the time the latter was most important! He had Macular Degeneration and had a friend who he asked to read all the VHPA Aviator Magazine, he insisted on being read every word. He was regarded as a good guy in all respects and even the leader of the union where he worked said that even though they were adversaries, he respected him because he always did what he said he was going to do, even in instances where he had to take some heat from his upper management.... sometimes even threatening to resign if he thought the company was trying to make him do something that he considered wrong!

From: Pat Ewing

Jesse L. Moore (1939-2010)

TELEPHONE - Funeral services for Jesse Lynn Moore, 70, of Telephone will be held at 10 a.m. Wednesday, March 24, 2010 in Wise Funeral Home Chapel. Burial with military honors will follow in Forest Grove Cemetery in Telephone. Rev. Gene Owen will officiate. Jesse passed away Monday, March 22, 2010 at his residence.

Jesse was born Nov. 13, 1939 in Paris, the son of Jesse Pearl Moore and Vera Lavonia Denton Moore. He was a graduate of Telephone High School and the University of Texas at Arlington. Jesse was a highly decorated U.S. Army veteran and P.O.W. of the Vietnam War. In his younger years, he worked for his "Uncle Joe" Denton at Wise Funeral Home. Jesse worked for Arkansas Bank and Trust in the 1970s, and later for General Cable and Clayton Homes in Bonham. Jesse loved going to Choctaw, riding motorcycles, hunting and fishing. He was preceded in death by his parents.

Jesse is survived by a daughter, Erin Moore Barker and grandsons, Jessie Kirk Barker and Daltry Wyatt Barker, all of Paris; numerous cousins, including Sarah Nowlin of Bonham, and extended family and a host of friends, including David, Todd, Hunter, and Lindsay Maxey, Michelle Reed and Jim Shaw.

Pallbearers will by James Skidmore, Larry Felts, David Maxey, T. Moore, Pat Porter and Bobby McCraw. Honorary pallbearers will be David Little, J. D. Atchley, Todd Maxey and Jim Frehner.

The family will receive friends at Wise Funeral Home from 7 -9 p.m. Tuesday. Online guest register

From: Gary Warrick, A btry/2nd/12th/23rd Arty, 48TH AHC 'Bluestars' 69-71, RSVN

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