Services will be at 11:00 Friday, March 14, 2008 at St. Paul Lutheran Church, 2600 4th Ave, Canyon, TX 79015, with Terry Meyer, pastor, officiating. The family will receive friends on Thursday, March 13, 2008 from 6:00 to 8:00 PM at Brooks Chapel. Burial will be in St. Paul Lutheran Cemetery, Hwy 217 east of Canyon. Mr. H.L. Moore was born November 30, 1925 in Raton, NM to Noah Farmer and Jennie Iola Salsbury Moore. At the age of seventeen he joined the Navy, serving as radioman on LST 819 in the Pacific during WWII. He participated in the invasion of Okinawa and occupation of Japan where took part in the liberation of Allied prisoners of war. In route to the POW camp outside Nagaski; his party was the first American personnel to pass through the devastation of the second atomic bomb. He married Ruth Elizabeth Moderow of Chicago, IL on September 21, 1946. They were married over 61 years. They moved from Chicago to Amarillo in 1952, and then in 1974 built their home in Sunday Canyon. Curley worked for Braniff Airlines for 34 years and retired from the Panhandle Plains Historical Museum in 1990. He was a brilliant craftsman who could make anything out of wood or metal, and he was an accomplished sculptor. Mr. Moore was preceded in death by his parents, sister, May Moore, and infant grandson, Ian Daniel, son of David and Sharla Moore. Survivors include his, wife, Ruth, of the Home; sister, Leona A. Moore, of Raton, NM; two sons, Donald Lee Moore and wife, Cynthia Puckett, of Amarillo, and David Robert Moore and wife, Sharla Jo Simpson, of Midland, TX; daughter, Kathleen Elizabeth Moore Webb, and husband Richard, of Lynnwood, WA; and four grandchildren, Heather Leann and Jonathan David Moore, of Midland, TX, and Joshua Devin and Lauren Elizabeth Webb, of Lynnwood, WA.