Andrew Dale Moore USAF Col. Ret.

Col. Andrew Dale Moore, USAF Ret. died Sunday, December 16, 2007 in San Antonio after living 97wonderful years. He was born near Rockwell City, IA, July 27, 1910 to parents, Andrew Jackson and Mary Martin Moore.

In 1919 he moved to Worthington, MN where he graduated from high school and joined the National Guard. He attended the University of Minnesota, but went out to California where he got his pilot's license in 1929. He later graduated from the University of Maryland. After receiving his pilot's license, he came to Kelly Field as a 'flying cadet", graduating in 1936.

On June 19, 1937 he married Elza M. Billingsley and they moved to Randolph Field where he served as a flying instructor. He later was assigned to retrain reserve pilots in AT 6's. He worked with the Training Command from 1942 to 1945 at Lake Charles, LA, Greenville, TX, Liberal KS and Harlingen, TX, and then was sent to the Pacific under Gen. McMullen. At the end of the war he went to work for Gen. Wm. Tunner in the Air Transport Service serving in Memphis, Iceland, Ft. Totten, and Westover Field.

In 1948 he attended and was later on the staff of the Naval War College. As part of the implementation of the NATO agreement, he was sent to Iceland to reopen the air base. He returned to Kelly AFB with MATS, then attended the National War College in Washington, DC. He served on the Joint Chiefs of Staff at the Pentagon for 3 years before being transferred to SHAPE Headquarters in Fontainbleau, France. In 1960 he became Inspector General at Wright-Patterson AFB where in 1962 he retired after 33 years of service.

After retirement, he and his wife, Elza, traveled extensively throughout the USA and Mexico with their trailer and spent several months of the year in Guadalajara, MX.

He was preceded in death by his parents, a brother, William Raymond, and his beloved wife, Elza.

He is survived by his son, Jack T. Moore and his wife, Debi of Monroe, NC; his daughter, Judy Jull and her partner, Jack Upchurch of Hillsboro, MD; grandsons, John H. Jull and Andrew H. Moore; granddaughter, Sharon Jull Taylor; great grandchildren, Donald P. Jull, Katelynne M. Jull, Hannah Dale Taylor and Carson M. Taylor; He is also survived by his sister, Edith Dorine Beatty of Worthington, MN and several nieces and nephews.

At the time of his death, Col. Moore was a resident at the Inn at Los Patios, a retirement community on Salado Creek where he had many wonderful friends and a special friend, Marjorie Herring.