MARY MOORE
Mary Harold Moore, 89, died at Good Shepherd Nursing Home on Thursday, May 26, 2016, after a brief illness.
As a young woman she entered the Missionary Sisters of the Society of Mary in 1947 and was a member for 35 years.
She served as a Catholic missionary in the Solomon Islands for 25 of those years.
She returned to her native West Virginia having discerned a new vocation as a hermit.
She placed herself under the authority of the diocesan bishop and lived a hidden life of prayer as a hermit for the last 34 years.
A Memorial Mass will be celebrated on Friday, July 1, 2016, which would have been her 90th birthday, in the chapel of Good Shepherd Nursing Home, 159 Edgington Lane at 11:45 a.m. All are welcome to attend.
According to her wishes her mortal remains were donated to scientific research at WVU.
In lieu of flowers, donations to the Good Shepherd Chapel Fund are appreciated.
Also, according to her wishes she did not want any notice in the paper or any public gathering to remember her, however out of pastoral concern for the many people who were so thankful for her prayers over so many years these wishes have been set aside.