Anne Moore has died and the world has lost a great believer in, and champion, for peace. Nevertheless, because of her humanistic conviction, her tenacious commitment to the ideals of peaceand her loving spirit, a valuable part of her remains with us. 
Through her peaceful demeanor, and her quit effective activism, she embodied and personified all that she stood for and believed in.She was the ultimate role model for everyone who believes in and is pursuing peace..

Anne Hollingsworth Thomas Moore died on January 24, 2019, marking the end of a decline that increased over the past year.

Anne was born on August 15, 1929. She grew up in a small house on the edge of the Thomas family farm and tree nursery near Valley Forge, Pa. Anne attended Old Eagle Elementary School, George School, and Swarthmore College, graduating in 1951.

Anne was active in the communities in which she lived as an adult: Lansdowne, PA, Washington, D.C. (co-director of the International Student House), Lawrence, KS, Wayne and West Chester, PA, and Northampton, MA. She was a member of the Friends Meeting and worked on and with a host of social justice, peace, and civic organizations.

She was predeceased by her parents, Raymond and Lydia (Hollingsworth) Thomas, her sister, Amy Hoopes, her husband, Tom Moore, and her daughter, Lydia Moore. She is survived by her two sons, Charles and Howard, two daughters-in-law, four grandchildren, and many cousins, nieces and nephews.

Anne was truly grateful for each and every person in her life.

A memorial service will be held at 1:30 on Saturday, February 2 at the Northampton Friends Meeting, with a potluck of light snacks to follow.
Published in Daily Hampshire Gazette on Jan. 28, 2019

A MEMORIAL SERVICE WAS HELD AT THE VALLEY FRIENDS FRIENDS MEETING ON SATURDAY, JULY 20, 2019. HER ASHES WERE INTERRED IN THE VALLEY FRIENDS MEETING CEMETERY FOLLOWING THE CEREMONY. SHE WILL BE MISSED AND REMEMBERED.

Anne Hollingsworth Thomas Moore died on January 24,2019.
Her death marked the end of a decline that had been increasingover the past year. During this year Anne gradually pared back her commitments, but continued, as long as she could, walking with her walker from her Hampton Court apartment to several vigils downtown, exercise classes at the Senior Center, and Friends Meeting each Sunday. Anne’s Grandmother Thomas told her family that they were possessed of “strong blood” and the Hollingsworths
had a family motto: “What cannot be cured must be endured.”

Anne Hollingsworth Thomas was born on August 15, 1929. Her
mother was Lydia Hollingsworth Thomas, her father was Raymond Moore Thomas, and she grew up in a small house on the edge of the Thomas family farm and tree nursery near Valley Forge, PA., with her younger sister Amy. Anne attended Old Eagle Elementary School, George School, and Swarthmore College, graduating in 1951. After college she worked for two years at Baxter Labs in Evanston, lll., worked as a research assistant at Penn, hitchhiked across the country with Amy, and worked in the weaving studio of George Harndon in
Philadelphia, PA. She was cooking for the Friends General Conference in Cape May when she met Tom Moore who was attending the conference as part of his exploration of Quakerism.

Anne married Tom in 1954, and they moved to Lansdowne, PA, where he was secretary of the local YMCA. Anne’s first child, Lydia Anne, was born in Lansdowne in 1956. ln 1957 Anne and Tom moved to Washington, D.C. to be the co-directors of the lnternational Student House. Anne’s second child, Howard Thomas, was born in Washington,D.C. in 1958. ln 1960 the family moved to Lawrence, KS, where Tom was director of the University of Kansas Student YMCA. They bought a house at 1007 Alabama Street, a block from the stadium. Anne’s
third child, Charles David, was born in that house in 1962. For the next two decades, Anne raised three children and was active in a number of community institutions. She was one of the core members of the Oread Friends Meeting, collected clothing for and was on the board of the AFSC, and was active with FCNL (from 1957-2018). She sold UNICEF cards for seventeen years, and sold pecans for Koinonia, a racially integrated farm community in Americus, GA.

She was a director of theVolunteer Clearing House, which connected organizations in need of volunteer labor with people seeking to do volunteer work. She was a supervisor of VISTA volunteers, a founding member of Lawrence Coalition for Peace and Justice, and an organizer of Breakthrough, a mental health support group. Anne was a founder with other people of the Lawrence Peace Center, organized Nuclear
Freeze activists, and lobbied Senator Bob Dole against the war in Vietnam.

At Anne’s instigation Anne and Tom moved east to live with and care for her parents in 1983. While there she was active with Pendle Hill, American Friends Service Committee, Friends World Committee for Consultation, Philadelphia Yearly Meeting, and Valley Friends Meeting. Anne’s father Raymond died in ‘1992. In 1994 Anne’s daughter Lydia,
who was a doctor in Kansas City, KS., died in a car accident.

ln 1998, Anne and Tom moved to The Hickman in West Chester, PA. She joined the Chester County Peace Movement, was an early supporter of the NonViolent Peace Force, served on the Hickman Building Committee and was active in the West Chester Friends Meeting. ln 2008, Anne’s husband Tom died, and a month later, her mother Lydia died. In 2013 Anne’s sister Amy died, and that summer Anne moved to Northampton, MA, to be near her son Howard and his family. She quickly made new connections with, among many others, the Northampton Friends Meeting, the local chapter of the AFSC, exercise groups at the Senior Center, and Swarthmore alumni.

Anne truly valued each of the people she knew. She maintained connections with hundreds of people, from her school days and from all of the places she lived since. She continued grappling with her own understanding of race and class, the tension between her pride in her family history and a feeling, perhaps embarrassment, about her unearned privilege, and how to, given all that, express her ideals
through action.

And action was important to her. Many conversations were wrapped up with “Well, this isn’t getting the dishes done.”