Margery Catherine Moore

Funeral services will be Saturday, August 7, 2021 at 10 am at the 1st Evangelical Free Church, 3321 7th Street in Moline. Visitation will be one hour prior to the service at the church. Her final resting place will be in Columbus City Cemetery, Columbus City, IA at 2 pm on Saturday. Memorials may be made to TEAM. Online condolences may be left at www.rungemortuary.com.

Margery was born February 29, 1924 in Columbus Junction, IA. She was the daughter of Frank A. and Harriet (Howell) Moore. She graduated from Columbus Junction High School in 1942 as Valedictorian of her class. After working for two years at the Rock Island Arsenal, she attended Moody Bible Institute, graduating in 1947 with a diploma in missions. She then graduated from Iowa Teacher’s College in 1950 with a Bachelor of Arts Degree in Elementary Education and went to India to serve as a missionary with TEAM. While in India, she taught at Sunrise Academy from 1952 to 1969, teaching missionary kids.

After spending the 1969-1970 school year teaching in the Davenport Public Schools in the Oral/Deaf department, she went to Taiwan and taught at Bethany and Morrison Schools, teaching missionary kids until 1982. She then taught Chinese children ESL until retiring in 1989.

Her passions included personalizing the Psalms and genealogy.

She will be greatly missed by her surviving sister, Dorothy Schwarze, Freeport, IL and her many nieces and nephews. Her brothers, Burdette, Lyle and Charles preceded her in death.