This appeared in the Florida Times-Union, (Jacksonville, FL), 5/07/03 Teacher, genealogist Mabel Moyer dies By Jessie-Lynn Kerr Mabel Padgett Moyer, who after a career as a teacher and media specialist found a second passion in genealogy, died April 24, in St. Augustine two weeks after suffering a stroke. She was 95. A service of peace and resurrection will be at 3 p.m. tomorrow at Riverside Park United Methodist Church where Mrs. Moyer was a member for almost 90 years. She lived in Murray Hill in a house her father built in1936 until moving to St. Augustine two years ago. The family will greet friends in the church parlor following the service. Born in Jacksonville in 1907, Ms. Moyer graduated from old Duval High School before heading off to college at Florida Southern at Lakeland during the Great Depression. After a year of college she returned to Jacksonville to work as a bookkeeper. IN 1943 she joined the Women Accepted for Volunteer Emergency Service (WAVES) and served in Washington, D. C., according to one of her daughters, Karen Fleming of St. Augustine, "After World War II, mother met my father at a USO dance at Camp Blanding," Fleming said. "They were married and my sister and I were born and our parents moved to Gainesville so both could attend the University of Florida on the GI Bill." Mrs. Moyer obtained her bachelor's and master's degrees from the University of Florida. She taught elementary school in Jacksonville at Ramona Boulevard, Ruth N. Upson, Pinedale and Harborview, where she also served as media specialist. When she retired in 1970, Mrs. Moyers began a second career in genealogy. "She wanted to find out who here ancestors were, where she had come from," Fleming said. Mrs. Moyers was able to trace one line of her family back to a signer of the Magna Carta in 1215 and also found out she qualified to join the Mayflower Society, being descended from one of the pikgrims. "Genealogy became her passion," Fleming said. Mrs. Moyers not only explored her own family's roots, but she helped others explore their lineage too, her daughter said. She was a member of numerous genealogical organizations as well as the National Society of Mafna Carta Damesa and Barons, the Mayflower Society, and the DAughters of the Amerikcan Revolution. Predeceased in 1995 by her husband of 40 years, Adam Rothermel Moyer, Mrs. Moyer is survived also by her other faughter, Suzanne Meik of Tallahassee, five grandchildren and nine great-grandchildren. Staff writer Jessie-Lynn Kerr can be reached at (904) 359-4374 orvia e-mail at jkerr@jacksonville.com