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2010
John C. Moore, a retired general manager and acting chief executive of
Potomac Iron Works in Hyattsville, died of renal failure April 6 at the
Riderwood Village retirement community in Silver Spring. He died a day before
his 88th birthday.
Mr. Moore spent more than 20 years with Potomac Iron Works before retiring
in the early 1970s. He then owned and operated a self-titled management
consultancy until the late 1990s.
John Corwin Moore was a native Washingtonian and a 1939 graduate of
Gonzaga College High School.
He served in the Coast Guard during World War II and was a 1949 commercial
science graduate of Benjamin Franklin University, which is now part of George
Washington University.
He held top offices with the Knights of Columbus in Washington and was a
past president of the Bladensburg Rotary Club and the Prince George's
Chamber of Commerce. He was a founder and chairman of the National
Columbus Celebration Association, which honors the anniversaries of the
explorer's voyage from Spain to the Americas.
Survivors include his wife, Marguerite Ries Moore of Riderwood Village,
whom he married in 1946; two children, Kevin A. Moore of Edgewater and
Sharon M. Brazell of Severna Park; a sister; seven grandchildren; and one
great-grandson.
-- Adam Bernstein
John C. Moore, a retired general manager and acting chief executive of
Potomac Iron Works in Hyattsville, died of renal failure April 6 at the
Riderwood Village retirement community in Silver Spring. He died a day before
his 88th birthday.
Mr. Moore spent more than 20 years with Potomac Iron Works before retiring
in the early 1970s. He then owned and operated a self-titled management
consultancy until the late 1990s.
John Corwin Moore was a native Washingtonian and a 1939 graduate of
Gonzaga College High School.
He served in the Coast Guard during World War II and was a 1949 commercial
science graduate of Benjamin Franklin University, which is now part of George
Washington University.
He held top offices with the Knights of Columbus in Washington and was a
past president of the Bladensburg Rotary Club and the Prince George's
Chamber of Commerce. He was a founder and chairman of the National
Columbus Celebration Association, which honors the anniversaries of the
explorer's voyage from Spain to the Americas.
Survivors include his wife, Marguerite Ries Moore of Riderwood Village,
whom he married in 1946; two children, Kevin A. Moore of Edgewater and
Sharon M. Brazell of Severna Park; a sister; seven grandchildren; and one
great-grandson.
-- Adam Bernstein