Obituary: Roswell O. Moore, former rector, Trinity Parish Obituary: Roswell O. Moore, former rector, Trinity Parish (August 24, 2005)

A former rector of Trinity Parish in Menlo Park, The Rev. Canon Roswell O. Moore of Bend, Oregon, died August 10. He was 78.

He lived in Menlo Park from 1968 to 1994.

A memorial service will be held Friday, September 9, at 11 a.m. at Trinity Episcopal Church in Bend, Oregon, where he was a member.

Born in Auburn, New York, he graduated from the Millbrook School in Millbrook, New York, in 1944. He earned a bachelor's degree from Yale University in 1948, a master's of divinity from Episcopal Theological School in Cambridge, Massachusetts, in 1951, and a master of arts at Yale in 1954.

In 1982, he was installed as an honorary canon of Grace Cathedral in San Francisco. He was awarded an honorary doctor of divinity by the Church Divinity School of the Pacific in Berkeley in 1993.

Mr. Moore was ordained to the diaconate and the priesthood in the Episcopal Church in 1951 and served on the pastoral staff of Syracuse University in Syracuse, New York, and as program consultant for the Diocese of Central New York, where his book, "The Practice of Evangelism," was published.

He was rector of two parishes: Christ Church in Exeter, New Hampshire, and Trinity Parish in Menlo Park.

After his retirement from parish ministry, he served as president of the Episcopal Church Province of the Pacific from 1982 to 1988, bringing together all the Episcopal dioceses west of the Rocky Mountains and including Alaska, Hawaii, the Philippine Islands and Taiwan. He served on the Episcopal Church National Council from 1988 to 1994.

He went to Bend to serve as a volunteer for the Episcopal Church in eastern Oregon. He was active with the Interfaith Volunteer Caregivers; Interfaith Ministries of Central Oregon; Parents, Friends of Lesbians and Gays of Central Oregon; and the Trinity Church Family Kitchen.

Survivors include his former spouse, Katharine; three sons, Tom, Andrew and Jonathan; a daughter, Mary; his spouse, Jan; one stepdaughter, Jill; and three grandchildren. He was preceded in death by a son, Roger.

Memorial contributions may be made to Episcopal Relief & Development, Dept. 4103, P.O. Box 12043, Newark, NJ 07101; or Hospice of Bend-LaPine, 20785 NE Wyatt Court, Bend, OR 97701.

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