Moore, Tracey
Age fifty-two …July 27, 2015.
Survived by her husband, Kevin H. Moore; daughter, Grace Moore; and sister, Terri Cooper.
Visitation will be Friday, July 31, 2015, from 2-8 p.m. at Woodbine Funeral Home, Hickory Chapel, 5852 Nolensville Road.
Funeral services will be conducted Saturday, August 1, 2015, at 2 p.m. at Otter Creek Church, 409 Franklin Road, by Walt Leaver. Interment, Woodlawn Cemetery. Family will serve as Pallbearers.
Memorial contributions may be made to the National Kidney Foundation . Woodbine Funeral Home, Hickory Chapel, Directors, 615-331-1952. Still Family Owned
Comments by Jeff Batts at the funeral
So, family and friends will try to honor my friend Tracey Moore in Facebook posts, etc., as I so want to do, and we will all fall short. We lack the words to describe the fight. We lack the words to describe what she fought for, the time that she fought, and the grace with which she did it. We will dig deep to put words to a life that had to be seen to believe. Every day I've known her has been a miracle. The ease of life that I take for granted was never part of her routine. Her schedule was more rigorous than that of anyone I have ever known or heard of. But she did it. She did it for Grace and Kevin. She did it because she wanted to live her life to the fullest measure she could. She did it to run the race set before her and she ran it in such a way that God our Father was honored and shown to every single person she met. How could she push so long? How could she be so strong at the end? Because my friend Tracey Moore took living life seriously and did it magnificently and we are all better for it. Our words will fall short and our hearts will groan, but we are all closer to God for having her in our lives. Well done, Tracey, well done!
Tuesday, July 28, 2015…And, we grieve again, by Marilyn Switzer
There is a scene in The Thornbirds where people walk over a hill to the cemetery, yet, again, to bury a loved-one. Our family at Otter Creek will be making that trek again. We have lost another beloved member.
I did not know her well. There are many who did, and they loved her dearly. From the age of fourteen, she suffered with multiple physical maladies. When I consider her life, I think of a saying that has become a t-shirt icon: "though she be but little, she is fierce." Possibly, this originally referred to baby girls, but it is perfectly descriptive of this amazingly determined, yes, fierce woman.
She fought to live her life with purpose and dignity. She gave birth to a beautiful daughter; a daughter that conventional medical wisdom would have said was impossible. She knew better. She found in her devoted husband, a best friend.
Last week she grew weary of the fight. Make no mistake; she did not give up. She made the courageous choice to live her faith. She knew she could move peacefully on to the next phase of her eternal journey when family reassured her that she had served them well, and because of this, they will be fine.
This family, and her friends are weighing on my heart today. I think back twenty years ago when I, too, lost a good friend much too soon. She left a husband and three children. We survived the loss because we prayed and grieved, and remembered together. These who presently grieve will do likewise.
Life can be very painful as part of a church that cares and hurts so deeply. My life would be greatly diminished if I were not.
So, I am sad, yet grateful today. Grateful for having known, if only a little, Tracey Moore, and profoundly saddened for Kevin, Grace, and other family and friends.
I wish you, on this day,
Blessings
Moorehead, Nellie