Andrew Wylie
Moore passed away peacefully on September 28, 2022 in
Amherst.
Born in Linden, NS he was the youngest
son of Wylie and Grace (Mitchell) Moore. He was a
son, brother, husband, father, grandfather and
great-grandfather. He was a kind and generous man and a
friend to many people over his lifetime.
Andy’s pride and joy was
family. With an amazing wife, life and business partner,
Inez was his rock and they shared 64 years of marriage before her
passing in 2019. He dearly missed Inez and wanted to be with
her every day since then. They loved spending time at the
camp at Angevine Lake and family gatherings there were usually epic
events (not mentioning any names). In Amherst their kitchen
was almost always open and there was always room for more at the
table. Impromptu and unexpected parties were the favourite.
Inez would say we were full to the rafters, but come on in.
Their pets were their travelling companions in those days
and they went nearly everywhere together and never had an unloved
moment. It was a family joke that if anyone should die,
their best bet might be to come back to the Moore household as a dog
or cat.
Andy could recount ridiculous amounts of
family history on his own family and he and Inez spent many good times
digging for connections with ancestors. There probably
wasn’t a cemetery in the region that they didn’t
go through more than once to put a name on a missing or unknown
relative, a practice that took them back generations of
information. That digging also took them to Northern Ireland
in the 1990s to find more of the story of when one brother got on the
boat and one stayed put. Together, they always found a way
to put the puzzle pieces together and would give a history lesson in a
moment’s notice.
Andy spent his whole life to support his
growing family. Starting in the 1950s, he worked at the T
Eaton Company in Moncton in shipping and receiving and proud of his
first paycheque of $65. Closer to home in the early 1960s he
starting working in the parts department of Tantramar Motors in
downtown Amherst. From there he worked for Graham Smith as
parts manager where he was awarded many sales achievements including
trips to Hawaii and Portugal. He loved taking Inez on these
trips and reminisced about them many times. In the 1980s he
worked for Taylor Ford Moncton and Bill Casey Ford Amherst and helped
to establish a successful wholesale auto parts business for these
companies and created a benchmark on how to succeed in this business
in Amherst area and Cumberland County. In 1991, when some
would be considering retirement, Andy decided to go into business with
two of his sons, Dana and James purchasing a small tire and alignment
shop in Amherst known as Donkin Tire. Thirty years
have passed since then and for all of those years he was instrumental
in guiding and building Moore Automotive and
Recreation.
Andy was a talented singer and loved to
sing in church choirs, as a soloist, or just because. In the
1970s he took piano lessons so he could learn to read music which
might have been a stretch, but it led him to the local Barbershop
chorus where he truly found his spot and many lifelong singing
friends, among them Paul Landry, Don Helm, Con Murray, Carl Merlin,
Bill Brown, Jack Atkinson, Arnold Blenkhorn and so many others, all of
whom would break into song at any given moment even if no one asked
them to.
He went on to direct the Sounds of
Cumberland Barbershop Chorus for more than 10 years, performing in
competitions in Nova Scotia and New Brunswick. No one
remembers if they ever won top awards, but they sang beautifully
because they could and they had snappy outfits. At
one point there were more than thirty men in the chorus and they were
well known and respected in the Barbershop singing
community. In later life Andy sang with The
Travellers for several years performing throughout Cumberland County
at nursing homes, church events and family
gatherings.
Andy is survived by children Marion
(Richard), Harry (Joe), Dana (Ann), James (Shelly) and
Gordon (Shey), grandchildren Ashley (Aaron), Mia (Jon),
Cassandra (Kent), Emmett, Matt, Wylie, Kailey and Michael, great-
grandchildren Mitchell, Rowan, Ruby, Fletcher and Bowen as well as
sisters Gerry Crockett and Edith (John) Weeks. He
was predeceased by his wife Inez (nee Webster) in
2019.
The family is very grateful for the care
and good humour provided by Dr Krys Bienkowski over the years and the
doctors and nursing staff at the Cumberland Regional Health Care
Centre during his time there. We are also deeply
grateful to Nancy Patterson for her friendship, compassion and
expertise which allowed Andy to stay in his own home this past
year.
Arrangements are under the care and
direction of the Jones Family Funeral
Centre, 70 Church Street, Amherst, NS (902-667-8777).
To honour and celebrate both Andy and Inez, the family invites to you
join us to share a story or a photo at Jones Family Funeral Centre on
Monday, October 3rd from 2-4 pm and 6-8 pm. Funeral service
will be held Tuesday, October 4th at 2pm at the
funeral home as
well.
Memorial donations if so desired may be
made to the Cumberland Health Care Foundation or the Linden Hillside
Cemetery. In lieu of flowers or donations please
feel free to sing a song. And if you find you
can’t sing, ask Andy to do it, he’s used to
it.
Sharing of memories and condolences may
be sent to the family by visiting the online memorial at
www.jonesfamilyfuneralcentre.ca or through the Jones Family Funeral Centre
Facebook Page.
Our most sincere sympathies to the family and friends of Andrew Wylie Moore 1932 2022..
Death notice for the town of: Amherst, Province: Nova Scotia