Mattie Moore

Sunset - April 14, 2024

Life Reflections

Mom, Grandmother, & Great Grandmother

On Sunday April 14, 2024, Mattie Lee (Hicks) Moore returned to glory with the Lord. Born in Tyler Tx, on September 28, 1931, to Embry Hicks and Ella Miller (Hicks). She graduated from Jackson High School and went on to Tyler Junior College for nursing and graduated. Her passion was serving and helping people both young and old all the way to 92 years of age.

Mattie confessed her faith in Jesus Christ as her Lord and Savior at an early age and continued in her walk of faith until her heavenly Father called her home. Her church home was Sylvania Church of Tyler

Mattie worked at Kessler Park Hospital in Oak Cliff as a nurse, she was on the Zoning Board of Adjustments for the City of Dallas and Dart Rail, she was on the Dallas Committee for the Elderly having the opportunity to travel and meet President Clinton. She was a world traveler visiting several countries along the way. She continued to work well into her 80’s as nurse in Tyler traveling to see and care for many patients.

Mattie was preceded in death by her father Embry Hicks, mother Ella Miller (Hicks), brother Warren Hicks, sisters Arneta Hicks, Ernestine Hicks, her son William Berotte Jr., and daughter Renae Berotte Burgess, her husband Willie Birotte, Clifford Moore, Augusta Cross, and Larry Green.

Mattie leaves many to cherish her memories, brother, Ardise Hicks; sister, Idella Nealy; grandsons John Lewis, Jr., Clifford Lewis, and William Berotte III; several great grandchildren; a host of nieces, nephews, and cousins; stepchildren, step grandchildren, step great grandchildren, extended family, and many life friends.

Special Thanks to her caregivers “Her Everything” Shanta Bulter; Her niece Patricia Jobe Wilson; Her sister-in-law Joyce Thompson, her step-granddaughter Lexxus Garcia, Sylvania Church, a host of friends, extended family, and acquaintances.

Her Journey’s Just Begun

Don’t think of her as gone away her journeys just begun, life holds so many facets, this earth is only one. Just think of her as resting from the sorrows and the tears in a place of warmth and comfort where there are no days and years. Think how she must be wishing that we could know today how nothing, but our sadness can really pass away. And think of her as living in the hearts of those she touched, for nothing loved is even lost and she was loved so much.

By Ellen Brenneman

John 14: 1-6

1. Let not your heart be troubled: ye believe in God, believe also in me.

2. In my Father's house are many mansions: if it were not so, I would have told you. I go to prepare a

place for you.

3. And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again, and receive you unto myself; that where I

am, there ye may be also.

4. And whither I go ye know, and the way ye know.

5. Thomas saith unto him, Lord, we know not whither thou goest; and how can we know the way?

6. Jesus saith unto him, I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by

me.