Beverly Moore

BEVERLY MOORE

Cedar Rapids

7/22/1935 – 8/3/2014

Beverly R. (Dudek) Moore, 79, wife of the late James Moore, passed away peacefully on Aug. 3, 2014, after a short illness.

Beverly was born in Marshalltown, Iowa, to Lester and Ella (Hisenrote) Dudek. She attended Iowa State University (Pi Beta Phi) and graduated in 1956. Soon after graduation, Beverly married her husband of 53 years, James Moore, and they started their life together in Cedar Rapids, where Beverly volunteered for multiple community organizations, including serving for the local United Way chapter. In 1976, Beverly and James moved their family to Duxbury, Mass., where James was appointed president of Bay State Specialty Co. then located in Middleboro, Mass.

In the mid-1980s, Beverly founded Choice Point, a Duxbury, Mass., consulting firm focused on improving organizations' creativity and knowledge of left and right brain learning styles. Among her clients were several Fortune 500 companies as well as a longstanding relationship with Arthur Anderson, providing education and training for them at their St. Charles, Ill., training center.

Throughout her life Beverly was an advocate for creativity and was a regular attendee and educator/facil-itator at the Creative Problem Solving Institute (CPSI) in Buffalo, N.Y.

Her greatest loves were her devoted husband, traveling the globe and welcoming people into her home to celebrate life.

Beverly leaves behind four children, Julie Moore and her partner, Patricia Mullee, of Duxbury, Mass., Daniel Moore of Carver, Mass., Michael Moore and his wife, Joanne, of Plymouth, Mass., and Joel Moore and his wife, Laurie, of Plymouth, Mass. Beverly was the proud grandmother of eight grandchildren and three great-grandchildren.

A memorial service will be held in her honor at 3 p.m. Thursday, Aug. 21, at The Pavilion at Plimouth Plantation, 137 Warren Ave., Plymouth, Mass.

In lieu of flowers, donations may be made in her honor to the Promotional Products Scholarship fund – www.ppef.us.