Avanell Heard Moore

Avanell Heard Moore
1911-2017

Services for Avanell Heard Moore, 105, of Ben Wheeler, were held at  Sunday, Jan. 29, 2017, at the Eubank Funeral Chapel in Canton with Ronnie Carter officiating. 
Interment was in Prairie Springs Cemetery in Ben Wheeler. 
Mrs. Moore passed away Thursday, Jan. 26, 2017, in Canton.  She was born March 20, 1911, in Ben Wheeler to Jessie Bean and Sabra Salina Morris Heard.
She lived her entire life in Ben Wheeler and in two houses in the past 85 years.  She and her husband, Booster, owned and operated Moore's General Merchandise from the 1930s until the 1980s.  She was a member of the Ben Wheeler Church of Christ.
She enjoyed taking care of people, reading her Bible daily, reading other books, watching Wheel of Fortune and visiting with her many friends. 
She is preceded in death by her husband, M.L. "Booster" Moore; two daughters, Sue Wheeler, and Betty Oxford and husband, Neiland; four sisters and two brothers. 
Survivors include her son, M.L. and Delores Moore; son-in-law, Buddy Wheeler; eight grandchildren, Pam Hudson, Debbie and Rocky Smith, Sheryl Cadick, Jan and Jim Colley, Lori Wheeler Ficor, Scott and Heidi Moore, Greg and Cheryl Moore, and Shelley Walker; 15 great-grandchildren; 10 great-great-grandchildren; several nieces and nephews; and her caregiver, Pat Farni.