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    1. [SUTTON] obit
    2. Danny L. Clemmer
    3. Published in the Sewickley, PA - Herald 2001-10-17 Mary Ormsby Sutton Moore, 86, of Osborne, died on Saturday, Oct.13, 2001, at Valley Care Masonic Home in Aleppo Township from the effects of a stroke suffered on Aug. 15. A memorial service will be held at St. Stephen's Episcopal Church Thursday (tomorrow) at 3 p.m. with the Rev. Geoff Chapman officiating. Mrs. Moore, who lived most of her life in the Pittsburgh area and had celebrated with her husband Martin their 50th wedding anniversary on July 28, was born in Pittsburgh on July 16, 1915, the daughter of Margaret Crosman Phillips and John Blair Sutton. She attended the Fermata Preparatory School in Aiken, S.C., and Sarah Lawrence College in New York. In Sewickley, she was on the Union Aid Society board for many years, served on the committees of St. Stephen's Church and was a member of the Grapevine Garden Club. Mrs. Moore was descended from John Ormsby, one of Pittsburgh's first settlers, a Revolutionary War soldier who is buried in the Trinity Church Yard in Pittsburgh. She also was a collateral descendant of Stephen Collins Foster. In April 1995, on the 150th anniversary of Pittsburgh's Great Fire of 1845, Moore and several other area residents whose ancestors survived it, attended a Western Pennsyl-vania Historical Society ceremony in Oakland commemorating the event. An article in the Sewickley Herald at the time noted that Mrs. Moore had been nicknamed "'Mrs. Pittsburgh' because of the number of distinguished Western Pennsylvania ancestors of whom she can boast." She is survived by her husband Martin L. Moore Jr. of Osborne, her daughter Margaret Christy Moore of Sewickley, her son John Y.C. Graves of East Hampton, N.Y. and four grandchildren. Memorial gifts may be made to the Union Aid Society Thorn Street, Sewickley, Pa. 15143 or to a charity of one's choice. Arrangements were made by Copeland's Sewickley/Irvine Chapel. -- Danny & Nancy Clemmer www.clemmer.org

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