Elizabeth Ann Weatherly Moore was born in Amarillo, Texas on September 18, 1936. Ann was the oldest of three children and she loved her two sisters. When Ann was in 8th grade at the junior high school, Wade Moore and some others from Amarillo High School came over and performed a musical for their younger classmen. After hearing Wade sing, Ann told her friend that she would like to get to know him someday, and sure enough, when Ann became a student at Amarillo High, he asked her out and they began going on coke dates and making fudge together. After graduating from high school, Ann married her high school sweetheart, Wade and they were married for 58 years until he passed away in 2015. She worked at Bank of the Southwest in Amarillo and in 1958, her daughter Lisa was born, followed by the birth of her second daughter, Lane, in 1963.
Four years later, Ann and her family moved to Houston. Family was important to Ann, and she missed having her sisters and many other relatives close by. One of her strengths was taking what she had and making the most of it, and that is what she did. She talked to her sisters on the phone every Sunday and often wrote letters to her aunt to try to stay in touch. She was fortunate to find a job at International Tool & Supply, which allowed her to use her exceptional organizational and interpersonal skills, while working with a wonderful group of people that she truly enjoyed. Years later, she was offered a job working for the President of the Houston Chamber of Commerce, and she enjoyed that challenge as well. Whatever she did, she did it with excellence.
Ann and Wade had many friends in Houston and they enjoyed cooking together and inviting friends over to eat and visit. Neither of them knew a stranger. Ann liked baking fancy desserts while Wade liked cooking savory meats and experimenting with cooking different types of gourmet foods. She volunteered as a co-leader for both of her daughters’ Girl Scout troops and took the girls on campouts. She was known for being industrious, resourceful, and facing life with a great attitude, overcoming whatever challenges were presented. Her sacrifices for her family will always be remembered.
In 1987, Ann’s first grandchild was born, with three more arriving over the next several years, and she adored them. She enjoyed reading to them and helping them learn their numbers. She also had a knack for getting down on their level and becoming a kid too when she played with them. The sound of Ann and Wade laughing and singing to their grandchildren is a priceless memory.
Upon becoming empty nesters, Ann and Wade were able to take a long-awaited trip to Europe, and they adopted a few dogs which some people mistook as their children!
In later years, Ann and Wade became active in Tallowood Baptist Church and Sunday School class in Houston. There, they met many wonderful friends. During this time of looking back and reflecting, Ann often told stories of her early life in Amarillo and of her good memories of that time. She spoke fondly of her grandmother, Helen Fansler and of their time together, as well as fun she had with her sisters, Lucille Dunn and Helen Weatherly, and many other aunts, uncles, cousins, family and friends that lived nearby. She often told the story of her grandmother Fansler taking her to church when she was a little girl and how she loved those old hymns that they used to sing.
Despite Ann’s illness, there was a lot of laughter and joy in the company of Ann and Wade in the winter years that still resonates with those that had the honor and privilege of being around them. One can only attribute this to their good and loving natures and the presence of Christ in their lives.
Ann passed away on April 12, 2024. She leaves behind her daughter, Lisa Moore Scarcia of San Marcos, California; daughter and son-in-law, Lane Moore Cowart and Tom Cowart of Allen, Texas; four grandchildren, Lane Scarcia Stroud of Oceanside, California and husband, Seaton, Kyle Scarcia of Vista, California and wife, Leah, Grace Cowart of Allen, Texas, and Jack Cowart, of Allen, Texas; and sister, Lucille Dunn of Amarillo, Texas.
She was preceded in death by her husband, Wade Moore, parents, Orville Weatherly and Esther Fansler Weatherly, sister, Helen Weatherly, and son-in-law, Rick Scarcia.
She will always be cherished and remembered as a loving mother, wife, grandmother, and friend.
The funeral service will be held at 10:00 a.m., Saturday, April 27, 2024 at Turrentine-Jackson-Morrow Funeral Home in Allen, Texas. Following the service, a procession will make its way to Ridgeview Memorial Park for a committal service. Family and friends are invited to the funeral home at their convenience on Friday, April 26, 2024 to pay their respects and to sign the register book.
All friends and family are invited and encouraged to attend these services as well as a reception at the home of Lane Cowart immediately following the committal service.