John Edward Moore

John was born on March 9, 1965, in Midland, MI. to his parents, Eugene and Barbara Moore.

He attended grade and middle school there and then graduated from Dow High School in 1983. While at Dow he played on their hockey team “The Chargers” and played the position of forward in his senior year. An excerpt of some comments in the local newspaper about John by his then coach Dick Blasy after a notable winning game performance included “He’s always done everything that has been asked. He was the one who spearheaded the fore-checking and back-checking on the whole team. He was doing it when and where he was supposed to be doing it.” This often summed up John’s actions for the rest of his life. He was an overall good athlete who continued to play ice hockey and roller blade and who was poetry in motion on skates, an expert skier, (both snow and water), a regular runner, and who enjoyed body surfing and snorkeling with his wife, and even learned to ride. The horses and everyone else felt at ease when John was around. He was also an avid reader who enjoyed taking in many of the classics, business-related books and the history of the United States and it’s founding fathers.

His sister Mary Moore Padgett remembers; “My mom called our baby brother a pleasant surprise. I still remember sitting on the couch, taking turns, holding our new sibling John. Little baby hand reaching for our hair, he was inquisitive, exciting, sensitive and easy to love. These traits, along with his enrapturing blue eyes, were his and ours to enjoy, his whole life. Even in his youth John showed a remarkable ability to weather the good with the bad and always held on tight to keep the things and people he loved going. I have to laugh, because my sister Ann had to regrow a handful of bald spots on her head. This was the earliest marking of how he was born to hang on and how many times his spirit was there to get the hardest of jobs done. I will always think of him smiling encouragement, as we sat in a large overhanging tree branch, debating how we three would keep warm with only two dry sleeping bags.

Behind my back he nibbled on the mysterious red thimbleberries (that I had deemed as unrecognizable and poisonous) and laughed as we all waded through the flooding mountain streams of the Porcupine Mountains. John was my designated protector on our first self-led backpacking trip. John was the hand that got us through that wondrous adventure. This is who he was and what he naturally did”.

John earned his Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering from Michigan State University. From there he decided to join his older brother David Moore in California and experienced opportunities in Silicon Valley. John worked as a hardware and test engineer at a number of start-up companies including Digital Link, Diva Communications, and Brocade Systems and helped David with his capital equipment refurbishing company. John had a very lucrative result with Brocade Systems which gave him a nice result for the time he had spent there.

During this time he met his future wife Elizabeth Coviello Moore when he answered her ad for a roommate in the coastal town of Montara, which is south of San Francisco after he accepted a job nearby. He and Elizabeth were good friends as roommates for about a year, but they finally fell hard for one another and got engaged. They were married on Sept 7, 1996, with many family and friends present at the lovely Stonepine Resort in Carmel Valley, CA.

From here John decided he would go back to school to obtain his MBA. He and Elizabeth both enjoyed their time in California and looked at many options together but ultimately decided to take a chance, make a big change, and to attend the Simon School of Business at the University of Rochester in Rochester, NY. After completing his MBA and enjoying upstate NY for 2.5 years John accepted a position at Vitesse Semiconductor in Morrisville, NC., then several other smaller technology companies nearby in the Raleigh area of NC., and most recently had been employed as a purchasing agent and consultant at Visitech Systems.

During this time John simultaneously represented his father Eugene’s patents to potential licensees under their business name Cartilast LLC. John located the company that was willing and able to process chicken cartilage and turn it into the final product, un-denatured type II collagen; patented name “UC-II”, which is in many joint supplements today. John’s efforts were the beginning of the production phase that allowed the family business to grow into what it is today.

John and Elizabeth purchased a 22-acre piece of property and home in New Hill, NC in 2001 which they loved, lived on and would develop together into her now successful equestrian training business; Victory Hill Farm. John really wanted to create value and help people overall. He was never satisfied just producing the status quo but only felt happy with the challenge of how to make a product or service better.

He is preceded in death by his Mother Barbara Ann (Knutson) Moore. Brother David Roger Moore. Grandparents Regina (Utecht) and Clarence E. Knutson, Ida May (Bailey) and Eugene Moore. Aunt Janet Clara (Moore) Walkner, Aunt Marilyn and Uncle Ken Walkner. Cousins Theodore Lea Wachner, Suzanne Marie Wachner, Richard and Jean Jarmous.

John is lovingly remembered and survived by his wife Elizabeth Coviello Moore, his father Eugene Moore, his sisters Ann Marie Moore and Mary Moore Padget her husband William Padgett, his nieces Madilyn and Brooklyn Moore, Margaret (Maggie) Coviello, Katherine (Kate) Coviello, Grace Coviello, and his nephew Jack Coviello. He was also well loved by his brother-in-law Vince Coviello and his wife Kelly Coviello, his Father and Mother-in-law Vincent and Virginia Coviello and his Cousins James Eugene Wachner and wife Jennifer Nicole Bruno, Mark and Dianne Jarmus, Paul Jarmus and Susan Jarmus, Louraine (Utecht) Szymanski, Karen (Adams) and Dr. Ken Mckinnon, MaryKay and Walter Ozanich, and many other loving relatives.

A celebration of John’s life will be held at a later date.

In lieu of customary remembrances, memorial contributions may be donated to; Hillsdale College, Habitat for Humanity, and the Humane Society of Wake County.

Fond memories and expressions of condolences can be shared online at apexfuneral.net for the Moore family.