March 12, 1920 – April 6, 2022
Pierce J. Moore Jr. ’44-B passed away at age 102 in Clemont, Florida, on April 6, 2022.
He attended Southern Junior College in Collegedale, Tennessee, and Pacific Union College in Northern California. He attended medical school at Loma Linda University School of Medicine, and during his senior year his entire class was drafted into the U.S. Army. Upon graduation in 1944, he was stationed at Fort Benning in Georgia. He was tasked with doing revisions of field amputations on soldiers injured in battles of the European theater. As the war waned, he was reassigned to a military hospital in San Juan, Puerto Rico. There he met Dora Deanne Crumley, an enlisted army nurse, and upon discharge from the army, they were married. He completed a surgical residency at Georgia Baptist Hospital and then took a surgical fellowship and served as chief resident at Spartanburg Regional Hospital.
After a few short years of practice, he felt God calling him to a small, failing Seventh-day Adventist institution that consisted of Mountain Sanitarium, a school of nursing, a boarding academy, and an elementary school. With his influence and leadership, the institution thrived and is known today as AdventHealth Hendersonville.
After retiring from his surgical practice, he went to Saudi Arabia and worked for the Army Corp of Engineers. Upon his return, he worked as an ER physician, plant physician, and contracted his surgical first assisting services to many of the area surgeons. He did surgical first assisting until the age of 90.
After 57 years of marriage, his wife, Dee, died, and he went on to marry Elaine Twomley Moore. They were married for 14 years.
He was a man of great faith and integrity who served the people of Western North Carolina with exceptional medical expertise, dedication, and love. He is survived by his wife, Elaine; five children; ten grandchildren; and ten great-granddaughters.