Creek Indian Nation - OBIT:  Kenneth Clyde Moore
Creek Citizens from across Creek Nation

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   MOORE
   RAINY MOUNTAIN - Kenneth Clyde MOORE was born May 6, 1916 in Okmulgee
   County. He died May 4, 1997. Wake services were held May 5 at
   McClendon Funeral Home Chapel, followed by a second Wake service May 6
   and funeral services May 7 at Rainy Mountain Kiowa Baptist Church.
   Interment was in Rainy Mountain Cemetery.
   Military service interrupted his schooling while he served in the U.S.
   Army from 1942 to 1946. He served in several battles and campaigns -
   northern France, Rhineland, Austria, Ardennes, and Central Europe. He
   attained the rank of captain and was awarded several decorations and
   citations: American Campaign Medal, World War II Victory Medal, and
   European African Middle Eastern Theater Campaign Medal.
   He attended Euchee Mission Boarding School, graduated from Chilocco
   Indian School in 1936, and Oklahoma Agricultural and Mechanical School
   (now Oklahoma State University) in 1947 with two degrees, a bachelor
   of science and master of science in education. He taught at Marlow,
   Riverside Indian School in Anadarko, and Chilocco Indian School and
   retired from teaching in 1980. In his teaching career he was an
   Oklahoma Coaches Association member, an Oklahoma Coaches Association
   Hall of Fame inductee, a Chilocco Indian School Hall of Fame inductee,
   a 32nd degree Mason, and a member of the Kiowa Gourd Clan.
   He was preceded in death by his parents, William N. and Eva Leona
   Matlock MOORE; and four brothers, Napoleon Bonaparte MOORE, Kelly R.
   MOORE, Maurice MOORE, and Willie MOORE. He was survived by his wife,
   Loraine MOORE of Morris; his son, John R. MOORE of Tulsa, his
   daughter, Elizabeth L. PALMER of Arkansas City; and three
   granddaughters, Sharon Rene’, Kara Louise, and Nicolette
   Rene’; six brothers, John R. MOORE of Macon GA, Thomas E. MOORE
   of Okmulgee, Edwin S. MOORE of Muskogee, Marcy M. MOORE of Concharty,
   Glenn M. MOORE of Morris, and Lawrence R. MOORE of Okmulgee; and
   numerous other relatives.