Does this help anyone?? Velma Vera Walters Moore FORT WORTH -- Velma Vera Walters Moore, 95, a teacher, Bible student, genealogist, homemaker and ever loving mother, passed away Monday, April 6, 1998, at home. Funeral: 3:30 p.m. Thursday at Shannon Rose Hill Funeral Chapel. Burial: Shannon Rose Hill Memorial Park. Officiating: the Rev. J. Neal Norman and the Rev. Mary Nell Partin. Visitation: 4 to 6 p.m. Wednesday at the funeral chapel. Velma Moore, a fifth-generation Texan and historian, was born April 6, 1903, near Cushing in Nacogdoches County to Thomas Jefferson Davis and Amanda Dora Whitaker Walters. Mrs. Moore attended Tyler Commercial College and North Texas State University, where she majored in speech. She then taught dramatics. An ardent student of the Bible, especially the book of Mark, she was active in church work as a teacher and Sunday school class officer in the past years at Polytechnic United Methodist Church. She later became a member of Meadowbrook United Methodist Church. She had been active in family research for over 60 years and was proud of her Texas ancestry and heritage and belonged to the following organizations. She was a member of the Frances Cooke Vandt Chapter, Daughters of the Republic of Texas in Fort Worth for 54 years and six months, United Daughters of the Confederacy, Julia Jackson Chapter No. 141 in Fort Worth, Texas State Historical Association, and was a member of the following genealogical societies: Nacogdoches Genealogical Society (charter member), Texas State Genealogical Society and the Fort Worth Genealogical Society. She was a writer and co-author of the book `East Mound Cemetery, Matador, Motley County, Texas' and was a speaker on Texas history. She was known for her fun loving presence, grace, helpful ways, interesting programs and quick wit and will be missed by all who knew and loved her. `The Hereditary Register of the United States of America' listed Mrs. Moore in 1976 and 1982 editions. She was married to William Ransom Moore for 47 years prior to his death in 1972. Her parents and 11 brothers and sisters also preceded her in death. Survivors: Daughter, Miss Billie Beth Moore of Fort Worth; sister, Mrs. Mamie Oberia Walters Spaulding (Mrs. Robert Edward Spaulding Sr.) of Dallas; sisters- in-law, Mrs. Alma Vawter Walters (Mrs. Thomas Edison Walters) of Houston, Mrs. Mary Josephine Moore Hamilton (Mrs. John A. Hamilton) of San Saba, and Mrs. Marjoria Orlena Moore Harper and her husband, Jonas Merrell Harper, of Mount Pleasant, Iowa; and many nieces and nephews. Shannon Rose Hill Funeral Chapel 7301 E. Lancaster Ave., 451-3333