Obit: Jack Moore of Easley

Jack Moore

Easley

Jasper Doyle (Jack) Moore of Cedar Rock Church Road, Easley, beloved husband, father and grandfather died September 27, 2013 at Easley Baptist Hospital. Born December 23, 1931 in the Glenwood Mill community, Jack spent most of his life in Pickens County. He attended Glenwood Elementary, Northside Elementary and Easley High School, where he played guard on the 1949 football team and graduated in 1951.

Jack saw a pretty prom queen walking toward Joe's one day in the late 50s and turned his car around to meet her. He married that girl, Brenda Joyce (Joyce) McRee in 1960. Their forty year marriage lasted until her death in 2000. They were blessed with the birth of their daughter Allison Ree Moore (Taylors, S.C.) in 1962.

Jack and Mary Lorraine (Lorraine) Couch Hillyer had known one another all their lives. They married in 2002, and happily became a grandfather to her four grandsons and two granddaughters. The children (Jacob Crosby, Mark Hillyer, MaryGrace Carter, Quentin Carter, Michaela Hillyer and Houston Miles) loved their Papa Jack. He tended to spoil them and they knew he'd always hand them a quarter for the gumball machine when they departed restaurants. But the time he spent with them meant more to them (and him) than anything money could buy.

He enlisted in the U.S. Army in 1953. He began his Army career in the 7th Division at Fort Jackson, S.C., was stationed in Hawaii in the 35th Infantry division. He discharged at the rank of Staff Sergeant after spending time in Korea.

Jack worked as an on-air disc jockey, sports announcer and salesperson for WELP from 1956 until 1985. He assisted in forming the Green Wave Booster Club and could recall championship games by the score and the play.

He began a second career with The Easley Progress from 1985 until his retirement in 2001. At The Progress he worked in sales, distribution and photography. He cared about and achieved results for his clients, counting them among his friends. His interest in photography led him to mentor younger staff members and continued throughout his retirement years.

Jack, however, might best be known in Easley, and most of the state, as the proverbial oldest teenager and Hall of Fame shag deejay. His music knowledge from the earliest years of Rock and Roll to today's shag hits, made him a sought after music aficionado. He could really pack the dance floor. He last spun records on Saturday, September 21 at Fat Harold's for the Hall of Fame Dancers.

He held membership in the Easley Jaycees and the Lions Club, and was past president of the Exchange Club. He is a 12-degree Mason and a life-long member of Glenwood Baptist Church. He was an active member of the Hall of Fame of the Association of Beach and Shag DeeJays and a member of the Easley High School athletic Hall of Fame. He was a member of several shag clubs, including the Electric City Shag Club of Anderson.

He loved puttering around the log cabin in the woods, where he lived with Lorraine, and visiting record stores and pawn shops in search of the vintage vinyl records and new electronic gadgets. He always had an interesting story or funny anecdote and took the time to get to know most everyone he met. He loved to attend shag events in Myrtle Beach and other locales across the state.

Jack is survived by Lorraine, wife; Allison, daughter; Dalton Moore of Greenville, brother; and Dorothy Adams of Easley, sister. He is also survived by Lorraine's children, Heidi Hillyer of Easley, Robin Hillyer-Miles (Ronnie) of Millington, Tenn., and Mike Hillyer (Lanie) of Easley. He will be missed by his extended family and numerous friends.

Funeral services will be at 3:30 PM Sunday in the chapel of Robinson Funeral Home-Downtown. Burial will follow in Greenlawn Memorial Park.

Visitation will be from 2:00 until 3:15 PM Sunday at the funeral home, prior to the service.

The family is at the residence.

Condolences may be expressed online at www.robinsonfuneralhomes.com or in person at Robinson Funeral Home-Downtown which is assisting the family. -