Elizabeth Guillermin Moore

Elizabeth Davison Guillermin Moore went to be with Jesus last Saturday morning at her Hermitage home, August 31, 2024, in her sleep at age 102. A life wisely and well-lived, devoted to Jesus, her family, and blessing all those around her with love and generosity, she was born November 6, 1921, in Columbus, Ohio, to Dr. Frank Loraine and Rosealice Gaskin Davison, DDS, the eighth of nine children and the last one to go to be with the Lord.

In Columbus, Ohio, on June 24, 1944, she married navigator and war hero, Capt. John Louis Guillermin, who received the Distinguished Flying Cross from Gen. Jimmy Doolittle. She then moved to San Antonio, Texas, where her husband was stationed. They later moved to Columbus, Ohio, where Elizabeth then completed her Bachelor of Social Work (BSW) at Ohio State University and he finished his Bachelor of Divinity at Butler University in Indiana, during which time they had a small church in Treaty, Indiana.

Being called back into the Air Force for the Korean War as a navigator, they then stayed in the Air Force, and she taught second and third grade for seven years, which she dearly loved.

Upon Maj. Guillermin’s homegoing to heaven in 1965 at Travis AFB, California, she moved the family to Memphis where they had planned to retire, for the medical school, universities, and close family there. She became a social worker with the American Red Cross, then the Director of Social Services at West Tennessee Chest Disease Hospital and Oakville Memorial Hospital, retiring in 1989 as Social Services Director of Wesley Highland Manor Nursing Home in Memphis, blessing and comforting many people as they went into eternity.

Moving to Hermitage in 1990, she later married Mr. Ward C. Moore in 1992, a veteran from Memphis, who went to be with Jesus on Veterans Day, 1997.

Mrs. Moore is survived by her daughter, Francie L. (late husband Chaplain David S., D.Min.) Guillermin Gosslee of Hermitage, TN., grandchildren John David (wife Jessica) Gosslee of St. Louis, MO., Joshua Stephen Gosslee of Clarksville, TN, Lydia Loraine Gosslee of Nashville, TN, and niece Margie L (husband Jeff) Davison Hooper of Brownsville, TN, and nephew Frank L (wife Anna) Davison of Memphis, TN, and other beloved nieces and nephews. Her son, Dr. John Philip Guillermin, MD, of Hermitage, went to be with Jesus in March of 2010, and infant son, Jamie, who went to be with Jesus at nine months of age in 1951.

Mrs. Moore was a faithful, longtime member of Tulip Grove Baptist Church, a member of the Daughters of the American Revolution (DAR) and the Huguenot Society, and a lover of America.

Visitation will be held from 11:00AM – 2:00PM Tuesday, September10, 2024, at Hermitage Funeral Home and Memorial Gardens, 535 Shute Lane, Old Hickory, TN. Funeral service will be held at 2:00PM followed by interment in the Garden of Devotion, Hermitage Memorial Gardens.

Pallbearers: Frank L Davison, Jefferson Hooper, John D Gosslee, Joshua S Gosslee, and Lydia L Gosslee

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