Rev. Dwight William Moore, 78, died Friday, January 11, 2013. A native of Rockingham Co., North Carolina, he had been a Hampton resident since 2011. Rev. Moore received a Masters of Divinity from Duke Divinity School in 1962 and served as a minister at Oakland Christian Church in Chuckatuck, Warwick United Church of Christ in Newport News, and retired from Liberty United Church of Christ in Halifax Co., VA. During his time in Halifax Co., he was a member of the Halifax County Beekeepers. Currently he was a member of First United Methodist Church - Fox Hill.
A loving father and grandfather, he was preceded in death by his wife, Faye Coates Moore; survivors include his children, Douglas W. Moore and his wife, Barbara of Cary, NC and Deborah L. Dixon and her husband, Tom of Hampton; his siblings, Lady Dodson of Reidsville, NC, Nellie Hayes of Pittsburgh, PA, Dennis Moore and his wife, Doris of Madison, NC, Nola Holbrook and her husband, Howard of Reidsville, NC, and David Moore and his wife, Evelyn of Madison, NC; and five grandchildren, Daniel, Joshua and Sarah Moore, and DJ and Victoria Dixon. A memorial service will be conducted at First United Methodist Church - Fox Hill by Rev. Brian K. Sixbey
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Victim of convicted serial killer Blanche Taylor Moore
Twice, the Rev. Dwight W. Moore believes, his second wife poisoned him with arsenic, and his testimony about both incidents helped convict her of another man's murder.
But the former Newport News clergyman said in a telephone interview from North Carolina that he forgives his estranged wife, Blanche Taylor Moore, and wishes she had been sentenced to life in prison rather than death.
"I forgive her, and I don't have any bitterness. I have real questions about the morality of capital punishment, especially so when it's someone who's been involved in my life," he said Saturday, eight days after a jury condemned Mrs. Moore, 57, to die.
"Arsenic poisons the body, but revenge, resentment and rage poison the soul."
Moore, pastor of Warwick United Church of Christ from 1966 until 1982 and pastor of Oakland Church of Christ in Chuckatuck for three years before that, testified during his wife's 17-day trial that she tried to poison him in November 1988 and again in April 1989 by feeding him arsenic-laced food.
A loving father and grandfather, he was preceded in death by his wife, Faye Coates Moore; survivors include his children, Douglas W. Moore and his wife, Barbara of Cary, NC and Deborah L. Dixon and her husband, Tom of Hampton; his siblings, Lady Dodson of Reidsville, NC, Nellie Hayes of Pittsburgh, PA, Dennis Moore and his wife, Doris of Madison, NC, Nola Holbrook and her husband, Howard of Reidsville, NC, and David Moore and his wife, Evelyn of Madison, NC; and five grandchildren, Daniel, Joshua and Sarah Moore, and DJ and Victoria Dixon. A memorial service will be conducted at First United Methodist Church - Fox Hill by Rev. Brian K. Sixbey
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Victim of convicted serial killer Blanche Taylor Moore
Twice, the Rev. Dwight W. Moore believes, his second wife poisoned him with arsenic, and his testimony about both incidents helped convict her of another man's murder.
But the former Newport News clergyman said in a telephone interview from North Carolina that he forgives his estranged wife, Blanche Taylor Moore, and wishes she had been sentenced to life in prison rather than death.
"I forgive her, and I don't have any bitterness. I have real questions about the morality of capital punishment, especially so when it's someone who's been involved in my life," he said Saturday, eight days after a jury condemned Mrs. Moore, 57, to die.
"Arsenic poisons the body, but revenge, resentment and rage poison the soul."
Moore, pastor of Warwick United Church of Christ from 1966 until 1982 and pastor of Oakland Church of Christ in Chuckatuck for three years before that, testified during his wife's 17-day trial that she tried to poison him in November 1988 and again in April 1989 by feeding him arsenic-laced food.
Rev. Dwight William Moore, 78, died Friday, January 11, 2013. A native of Rockingham Co., North Carolina, he had been a Hampton resident since 2011. Rev. Moore received a Masters of Divinity from Duke Divinity School in 1962 and served as a minister at Oakland Christian Church in Chuckatuck, Warwick United Church of Christ in Newport News, and retired from Liberty United Church of Christ in Halifax Co., VA. During his time in Halifax Co., he was a member of the Halifax County Beekeepers. Currently he was a member of First United Methodist Church - Fox Hill.
A loving father and grandfather, he was preceded in death by his wife, Faye Coates Moore; survivors include his children, Douglas W. Moore and his wife, Barbara of Cary, NC and Deborah L. Dixon and her husband, Tom of Hampton; his siblings, Lady Dodson of Reidsville, NC, Nellie Hayes of Pittsburgh, PA, Dennis Moore and his wife, Doris of Madison, NC, Nola Holbrook and her husband, Howard of Reidsville, NC, and David Moore and his wife, Evelyn of Madison, NC; and five grandchildren, Daniel, Joshua and Sarah Moore, and DJ and Victoria Dixon. A memorial service will be conducted at First United Methodist Church - Fox Hill by Rev. Brian K. Sixbey
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Victim of convicted serial killer Blanche Taylor Moore
Twice, the Rev. Dwight W. Moore believes, his second wife poisoned him with arsenic, and his testimony about both incidents helped convict her of another man's murder.
But the former Newport News clergyman said in a telephone interview from North Carolina that he forgives his estranged wife, Blanche Taylor Moore, and wishes she had been sentenced to life in prison rather than death.
"I forgive her, and I don't have any bitterness. I have real questions about the morality of capital punishment, especially so when it's someone who's been involved in my life," he said Saturday, eight days after a jury condemned Mrs. Moore, 57, to die.
"Arsenic poisons the body, but revenge, resentment and rage poison the soul."
Moore, pastor of Warwick United Church of Christ from 1966 until 1982 and pastor of Oakland Church of Christ in Chuckatuck for three years before that, testified during his wife's 17-day trial that she tried to poison him in November 1988 and again in April 1989 by feeding him arsenic-laced food.
A loving father and grandfather, he was preceded in death by his wife, Faye Coates Moore; survivors include his children, Douglas W. Moore and his wife, Barbara of Cary, NC and Deborah L. Dixon and her husband, Tom of Hampton; his siblings, Lady Dodson of Reidsville, NC, Nellie Hayes of Pittsburgh, PA, Dennis Moore and his wife, Doris of Madison, NC, Nola Holbrook and her husband, Howard of Reidsville, NC, and David Moore and his wife, Evelyn of Madison, NC; and five grandchildren, Daniel, Joshua and Sarah Moore, and DJ and Victoria Dixon. A memorial service will be conducted at First United Methodist Church - Fox Hill by Rev. Brian K. Sixbey
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Victim of convicted serial killer Blanche Taylor Moore
Twice, the Rev. Dwight W. Moore believes, his second wife poisoned him with arsenic, and his testimony about both incidents helped convict her of another man's murder.
But the former Newport News clergyman said in a telephone interview from North Carolina that he forgives his estranged wife, Blanche Taylor Moore, and wishes she had been sentenced to life in prison rather than death.
"I forgive her, and I don't have any bitterness. I have real questions about the morality of capital punishment, especially so when it's someone who's been involved in my life," he said Saturday, eight days after a jury condemned Mrs. Moore, 57, to die.
"Arsenic poisons the body, but revenge, resentment and rage poison the soul."
Moore, pastor of Warwick United Church of Christ from 1966 until 1982 and pastor of Oakland Church of Christ in Chuckatuck for three years before that, testified during his wife's 17-day trial that she tried to poison him in November 1988 and again in April 1989 by feeding him arsenic-laced food.
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