Doris Moore

KALONA ? Doris Marie (Grout) Moore, 90, of Kalona, died Saturday, May 20, 2017, in the Pleasantview Home in Kalona.

A celebration of life will be held at 10:30 a.m., Thursday, May 25, at the Sharon Center United Methodist Church in rural Kalona with the Rev. Erling Shultz officiating. Burial will follow at the Sharon Center Methodist Cemetery. Visitation will be from 4 to 8 p.m., Wednesday at the Peterseim Funeral Home in Kalona. A memorial fund has been established for the Sharon Center United Methodist Church, the Pleasantview Home, and Hospice of Iowa City.

Mrs. Moore was born Nov. 21, 1926, in Iowa City, the daughter of Harry and Neta (Southwick) Grout. She married Robert F. ?Bob? Moore on April 9, 1950, at the Grout Church.

She was one of six children raised on a farm about 8 miles northeast of Kalona. She attended Sharon Township No. 6, also known as Bayertown School, and graduated from Sharon Center High School in 1944. She and her husband lived and worked in Iowa City for 1 ½ years before moving west of Riverside on Highway 22. She was a homemaker; and together, she and her husband farmed in the Riverside and Iowa City area and enjoyed raising their two children. She was an active member of Sharon Center United Methodist Church, where she taught Sunday school and was regularly involved in the United Methodist Women?s Society. She was a tour guide at the Kalona Historical Village for five years. She loved to be with her family, and enjoyed traveling, visiting all the states except for New Mexico. She was known as a loving person. She was tough, kind, generous and selfless. ?Everything suits me? was her choice phrase for going with the flow, which she was good at. Her life of farming in the Midwest, raising children, and seeing so many changes throughout the years made her a strong, wise, caring woman.

Surviving are two children, Diane Davisson and husband Keith of Kalona, and Dean Moore and wife Alyssa of Coralville; two grandchildren; four great-grandchildren; one sister-in-law, Marilyn Grout; and many nieces and nephews.

She was preceded in death by her parents; her husband, Bob, in 2001; three brothers, Lloyd, Earl, and Edwin; and two sisters, Daisy Chipman, and Mae Sullivan.