Lewis Franklin Moore Jr. ’44

We recently learned that “Bud” Moore died May 10, 2006, at age 84, in his hometown of Roanoke, Va.  

He prepped at Woodberry Forest and roomed on University Place during his freshman year at Princeton. He left us in 1942 to study metallurgical engineering at Virginia Polytechnic Institute, and later served in the Army Air Force as a commissioned pilot.  

After returning to his studies in 1945, he shortly left VPI to take a management position at Walker Machine & Foundry Corp. in Roanoke, where he later served as president from 1957 to 1992 and then as chairman until his death.  

Bud kept in touch with our class secretaries into the 1960s and remained on our rolls. He was an avid Roanoke community, church, and business leader; an accomplished sportsman; and was proudly “a friend of Bill Wilson” from 1953 until his death.  

He is survived by his wife of 57 years, Daisy “Dee” Moore; two sons, Edward Stone Moore and Lewis Franklin Moore III; a daughter, Katherine Laws; nine grandchildren; three step-grandchildren; and two sisters, Mary Stone Rutherford and Margaret Moore Ehle. Wishing we had known Bud longer, our sincere condolences go to his entire family.