Iva Lou Livengood Moore was born on July 23, 1925 in Braddyville, Iowa to Roy Mack and Ferne (Riley) Livengood. She passed from this life on Monday morning, February 10, 2014 at Cherokee Villa Nursing and Rehab Center. Iva was 88 years old.
Iva was the 2nd of 7 children. The family moved to Castana when Iva was young and it was there she attended school. She married Earl Alden Moore on November 11, 1942 at her mother’s home in Castana. She and Earl moved to the farm in rural Moorhead, where they raised their 8 children.
Earl died in October of 2002. A year later, after living there for 61 years, Iva moved from the farm - first to an apartment in Onawa and then to an assisted living facility and eventually a nursing home - both of those in Cherokee, near her daughter, Hazel.
Iva loved her family. She also enjoyed her huge vegetable garden as well as her flower garden. She liked to read and to work jigsaw puzzles. In later years, she also worked word search puzzle books.
Iva is survived by her children; son, Roy (Shannon) Moore of Wellington, FL, daughter, Hazel (Norris) Torbensen of Cherokee, IA, sons, Richard “Butch” Moore of Moorhead, IA, Keith (Cheryl) Moore of Mapleton, IA, Everett (Beverly) Moore of Paw Paw, MI, Jack (Cynthia) Moore of Liscomb, IA and daughter, Lisa (Steve) Petersen of Salix, IA along with 14 grandchildren, 23 great-grandchildren and 2 great-great-grandchildren; her sister, Lucille Nelson of Concord, NE and brother, Earl Edward Livengood of Jackson, NE as well as numerous nieces and nephews and cousins.
She was preceded in death by her husband, her parents, daughter Kathy Sue Moore and sisters Alice Callendar, Irene Hansen, Phyllis Helder and Leora Claus.