Grace Laverne Dunn Knox Moore, age 86, of Wichita Falls, Texas, formerly of Archer City, Texas, passed away Saturday, July 18, 2015, in Wichita Falls.
Services will be held at 10:00 a.m. Wednesday, July 22, 2015, at Aulds Funeral Home with Don Cook, Pastor of Faith Memorial Baptist Church, officiating. Interment will follow in the Archer City Cemetery under the direction of Aulds Funeral Home of Archer City.
The family will receive friends from 6:30 p.m. until 7:30 p.m. Tuesday, July 21, 2015, at Aulds Funeral Home in Archer City.
Grace was born April 29, 1929 in Archer City to the late Robert Lee Dunn and Grace Goldie Davis Dunn.
In 1947, she graduated from Archer City High School.
Grace married her high school sweetheart, Hallie Paul Knox on November 7, 1950 in Archer City. On October 24, 1967, she married Sidney Moore in Archer City. He preceded her in death on April 29, 1995.
Grace was the secretary for the First Baptist Church and then for Faith Memorial Baptist Church where she was a member. Grace was employed in the Archer County Tax Collectors Office and then served as Archer County Treasurer for eight years. When she was fifty years old, she went to Nursing School and earned her LVN license. After she received her license, she was employed at Hamilton Hospital in Olney until her health caused her to retire.
Graces loved sewing, quilting, yard work, reading and traveling.
Survivors include three daughters, Theresa Bottlinger and husband, Mark of Archer City, Sylvia "Syb" Knox of Columbus, Georgia, and Leslie Knox of Wichita Falls, Texas; one sister, Joy Ferguson and husband, Willis of Grand Junction, Colorado; five grandchildren, Breck Tepfer and wife, Norma of Fort Worth, Jay Tepfer and wife, Tami of Salesville, Ohio, Chase Bottlinger of Weatherford, Grant Abercrombie of Fort Worth, and Bridget Kessler and husband, Brian of Phenix City, Alabama; eleven great-grandchildren, Bradley Tepfer of San Diego, California, Jacob Tepfer of Fort Worth, Katlyn Johnson of West Virginia, Anna Delgado and husband, Brandon of Yuma, Arizona, Ty Gage and wife, Ursula of Topeka, Kansas, Kayla Peterson of Phenix City, Alabama, Isabella, Aiden, Gavin, Isaac, and Ave Kessler of Phenix City, Alabama; and three great-great-grandchildren, Mason Delgado, and Keaton and Logan Gage of Topeka, Kansas.
She was also preceded in death by one brother, Jack Dunn and one sister, Louise Franklin.
The family suggests memorials to the Archer City Cemetery, P.O. Box 198, Archer City, Texas 76351 or the Archer Public Library, P.O. Box 1574, Archer City, Texas 76351.