Eva Margaret Clouse Moore, age 86, of Temple, TX, formerly of Springfield, TN, passed away Sunday, January 15, 2023 at her home in TX. Funeral services will be conducted at 11am Saturday, January 21, 2023 in the chapel of Austin & Bell Funeral Home in Springfield with Rev. John Paul Scott officiating. Burial will follow in the Bethlehem Cemetery with her grandsons serving as pallbearers.
The family will receive friends from 4-7pm Friday and again from 9am until time of the service at 11am Saturday at the funeral home.
Mrs. Moore was born May 27, 1936 in Robertson County, TN to the late Risteen Sydney and Alma Lucille Bolding Clouse. She was the eldest of 11 children and grew up poor, but you would never know it. She carried herself like a queen, full of grace and poise. She married James Harold Moore Sr., who was a military man, and they spent years traveling and living in different beautiful places all around the world. Mrs. Moore was a gardener, bird watcher, writer, and a strong Christian woman. She was a hardworking and loving mother and grandmother.
In addition to her parents, she was preceded in death by her husband, James Harold Moore Sr.; daughter, Karen Faye Collette-Carmody; a great granddaughter, Aliyah Faye Collette; and a brother, Donnie Dean Clouse.
Mrs. Moore is survived by her sons, James Harold Moore Jr., Bobby Glenn Moore and Duane Eddy (Penny) Moore; daughters, Eva Cynthia (John) Duncan, Pamela Annette (Mike) Moore and Susan Michelle (Billy) Gaskin; 16 grandchildren; 15 great grandchildren; 1 great great grandchild; brothers, Walter Clouse, Wayne (Betsy) Clouse, David Clouse, Bill (Geraldine) Clouse, Lonnie Clouse and Ronnie Clouse; and sisters, Faye Caldwell, Connie Goodman and Helen Locke.
Austin & Bell Funeral Home in Springfield is in charge of these arrangements.
