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Doris Moore
DORIS M. MOORE
Kalona
A celebration of life for Doris M. (Grout) Moore, 90, of Kalona, who died Saturday, May 20, 2017, at Pleasantveiw Home in Kalona, will be held at 10:30 a.m. Thursday, May 25, at Sharon Center United Methodist Church, rural Kalona, with Pastor Erling Shultz officiating. Burial will follow at Sharon Center Methodist Cemetery. Visitation will be Wednesday, May 24, from 4 to 8 p.m. at Peterseim Funeral Home in Kalona.
A memorial fund has been established for the Sharon Center United Methodist Church, Pleasantview Home and Iowa City Hospice.
Doris Marie Moore was born Nov. 21, 1926, in Iowa City, the daughter of Harry and Neta (Southwick) Grout. She was one of six children raised on a farm about eight miles northeast of Kalona. Doris attended Sharon Township No. 6, also known as Bayertown school, and graduated from Sharon Center High School in 1944.
Doris Grout and Robert F. "Bob" Moore were married April 9, 1950, at Grout Church. They lived and worked in Iowa City for a year-and-a-half before moving west of Riverside on Highway 22 to rent one of her Dad's farms. Doris was a homemaker and together, Bob and Doris farmed in the Riverside/Iowa City area and enjoyed raising their two children, Diane and Dean.
Doris was an active member of Sharon Center United Methodist Church, where she taught Sunday school and was regularly involved in the United Methodist Women's Society. Doris was a tour guide at the Kalona Historical Village for five years. She loved to be with her family and enjoyed traveling, visiting all the states except for New Mexico.
Doris will be remembered as a loving mother, wife, grandmother, great-grandmother, sister, aunt and friend. She was tough, kind, generous and selfless. "Everything suits me" was her choice phrase for going with the flow, of which she was so admirably good. Her life of farming in the Midwest, raising children and seeing so many changes throughout the years made her the strong, wise, caring woman that we will all miss dearly.
Survivors include her children, Diane (Keith) Davisson of Kalona and Dean (Alyssa) Moore of Coralville; two grandchildren, Dana (Nick) Striegel and Ross (Jamie) Davisson, both of Kalona; four great- grandchildren, Delaney, Macey, Cody and Tayley; one sister-in-law, Marilyn Grout; and many nieces and nephews.
Preceding Doris in death were her parents; her husband, Bob, in 2001; three brothers, Lloyd, Earl and Edwin; and two sisters, Daisy Chipman and Mae Sullivan.
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