Terrell Kivette Moose, 94 ¾ years, of Dallas, TX, went home to be with his Lord and Savior Jesus Christ on September 19, 2014. He was also known as “TK” or Terry to many, and he was proud of his family’s heritage for which he was named.
Proceeded in Death by:
Father: Edgar Terrell Moose
Mother: Jessie Fuller Moose
First Wife: Mary E. Moose
Survived by:
Second Wife: Marilyn Stromer Moose
Son: Stephen T. Moose and wife Brooke
Daughter: Sherilyn K. Misegades and husband Bob
Step Daughter: Laurie Hay and husband Randy
Step Son: Mark Stromer
Grandchildren:
Jess T. Moose
Katherine Moose Hunt
David S. Moose
Kristen (Misegades) Issac
Josh Misegades
Will Misegades
Logan Misegades
Caleb Misegades
Katherine Stromer
Blakley Stromer
Taylor Stromer
Robert Hay
Great Grand Children: 14
Family and Friends may gather for a Visitation on 9/23/2014 from 6:00pm to 8:00pm at the Sparkman Hillcrest Funeral Home, 7405 West Northwest Highway in Dallas, TX.
The Funeral Service will be held on 9/24/2014 at the Sparkman Hillcrest Funeral Home Chapel at 2:00pm. Interment will follow in Hillcrest Memorial Park.
In lieu of flowers Memorials may be made to:
John Brown University Scholarship Fund, 2000 West University Street, Siloam Springs, AR 72761 or www.jbu.edu
Mission Aviation Fellowship at www.maf.org/donate
Although an only child, he was viewed in the following roles; son, husband, son-in-law, brother-in-law, father, father-in-law, step-father, uncle, grandpa, and great grandpa. Many, who knew him outside his immediate family, also viewed him as family.
Terrell was born December 18, 1919 to Edgar Terrell Moose, a Shell Oil pipe fitter and semi-pro catcher for the Shell Baseball Team. His mother was Jessie Fuller Moose, who was a school teacher, and later on in life ran their hamburger stand across from the Healdton High School. Her hamburgers were well known, and always drew a crowd for lunch and Dr. Pepper.
TK told stories of driving the school bus for the rural Fox School District before graduation from High School. Since the school was small he also would play his trombone in his football uniform at halftime during games. His love of music probably came from his Dad, who would write the lyrics to songs and compose music while in the old outhouse for their oilfield home. His mom also played the piano. When time permitted he would attend the Fox High School Reunions and he loved reminiscing with the old timers. He donated many of his items to the school’s historical museum for display.
There were stories of pumping gas using the old hand cranked units of fuel into the Model T, Packard, and various other vehicles at the gas station run by his Dad and Mom. Flat tires too were fixed because of the sharp edges of the old flint stone roads.
He heard about John Brown University in Siloam Springs, AR that offered the chance to get a college education with a program where the students worked at projects to provide for the needs of the campus while being able to get a college degree and study the Bible. This education emphasized Head, Heart, and Hand working together to produce a great education. He also met his first wife while attending this school. He completed a BS degree. TK would travel representing the school in a trombone quartet. They worked up some numbers in which they played the right notes on their own instrument while at the same time working the persons trombone slide across from him at the others correct position for that persons tone. He also took his first flight in a plane and was hooked for life. He used to fly the plane and buzz the farm of his intended wife until her mother would come out and wave to him with her apron. He became a flight instructor there, and during WWII he was assigned as a civilian to flight instructor for the Army.
After the war Terry went to work for American Airlines. He was furloughed for a time but finally after struggling to make ends meet, was again hired by American Airlines. He his Mary Stephens Moose and new son, Stephen Terrell Moose moved to Levittown. Coming from the trusting south, he carried $12,000 cash from his savings to buy a house. The developer, who was in New York City, thought he was crazy to carry that much cash around, and refused to take it for fear that he might get robbed on the way to the bank. The earning power of pilots was very little at this time, so TK began to tune pianos, install TV’s in the Levittown homes with his good friend and fellow pilot Jack Tolbert. They even had a Christmas tree stand one year that was not doing very good, but that is another story for another time. He flew for American Airlines all the planes from the DC-3’s to the DC 10”s and Boeing 747’s. He worked his way up to Captain on the Flagship Fleet by July 14, 1952. By checking his log books he had calculated the actual time flown in the air to total 2 ½ years. TK often would have to be away for special days during the early years due to seniority of the bidding process, later he often bid his flights so he could be involved in the activities of his family. He would not only fly his routes but he would instruct and /or complete check rides with other pilots.
During his flying career he became interested in helping Missionary Pilots become more safety conscious. A missionary pilot friend stayed at his home in the early sixties which lead to discussions as to ways to get the single engine airplanes to the various mission fields without having to wait for them to be disassembled shipped by boat and re assembled finally arriving almost a 1 ½ years later. Using Pan American charts (since they were the only ones flying over some of the areas they were able to create a flight path to deliver planes to South America. Due to dangerous conditions facing these pilots and the maintained conditions of their planes, Captain TK Moose got permission from American Airlines to use some of their safety and maintenance information to share with the missionary pilots. Several fellow pilots and maintenance people went with him to work on these seminars. This would eventually these lead him all over Africa, South America, Indonesia, the Philippines, and Pupau New Guinea giving seminaries to the missionaries. He completed his Masters in Counseling from The University of North Texas which he was able to use to great benefits for those out on the mission fields. He would continue to do missionary work using his counseling skills to help Missionary Aviation Fellowship, MAF, and JARS through safety seminars. After his mandatory retirement as a Captain at age 60, he continued to do flight instruction for American Airlines for a few years, before finally retiring from commercial flying for good and never looking back.
He believed the key to a meaningful life was a personal relationship with Jesus Christ. As a result, he was very involved in the life of the local churches where he lived. He would play trombone with his son in the church orchestra for Sunday Night Church Services in the Park during the summer time in Huntington, New York. His church leadership roles included Deacon and Eldership positions, Sunday School Superintend, Sunday school teacher, Bible Study leader, and the development of small family group ministries of the larger church body at Northwest Bible Church. TK sang first tenor in several church choirs, and the development of a counseling ministry department at Northwest Bible Church in Dallas, Texas. Terry loved helping other people and looked forward using the skills and training from his Master of Education Degree. He would serve as a trustee for John Brown University from 1980 until 2007. Terry Moose was chosen by John Brown University as the first recipient of the Outstanding Alumnus Award. His son, also a JBU graduate accepted the award for him since TK was out of the country doing missionary work.
One of the hardest blows TK faced was the macular degeneration of his eyesight. This was frustrating to him since he was an active life long learner. He had to give up doing the many things he loved and treasured. With the loss of his first wife, Mary E. Moose, life changed for TK. He would later marry Marilyn Stromer, whom he would spend many hours in conversation and dreaming of things to do as they grew older. They became member of the 2x2 Sunday school class at HPUMC in Dallas, TX. He was the wonderful recipient of a stint heart valve replacement a little over a year before his death.. He found that life was fragile though, and came with many unexpected falls due to the aging process of life. In January of this year he had surgery for cancer of the bladder. It was thought that the cancer was removed. In April he went back into the Hospital with a problem with perforated cologne. During this time it appeared that the cancer had returned to the bladder. It took from April through June for TK to recover. But when he was back he was again walking up to 750 with his walker. In August while having trouble with his catheter and at his Doctors, office it was discovered that the cancer had moved to the liver. He was told he might have eight more months to live. His words to the Doctor wore “God has granted me a very wonderful 94 years”. He was able to make a trip up the grave site of his parents about four weeks before his death. From that time on he went quickly, with very little pain.
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