HomeMy WebLinkAboutResolutions - 1964.09.21 - 20498Miscellaneous Resolution 1+356 September 21, 1964
BY: Mr. Levinson
IN RE: MEMORIAL FOR ROBERT Y. MOORE
TO THE OAKLAND COUNTY BOARD OF SUPERVISORS
Mr. Chairman, Ladies and Gentlemen:
Robert Young Moore, who spent more than half his life in public office in
Oakland County, passed away on August 23, 1964, at the Pontiac General Hospital
after a long illness. He was 78 years of age and had resided at 476 Shore View,
Waterford Township.
Born in Birmingham, Michigan, in March of 1886, Robert Moore attended
Birmingham schools., He worked on his father's farm for a time, took a construction
job in Utica, Illinois, and then went to Detroit, where he spent three years as a street
car conductor and six years as a mounted policeman.
In 1916 Robert Moore purchased a farm in Oxford Township, where he remained
until 1920 when he purchased a Birmingham meat market.
His political career began in 1920 when he was elected Clerk of Bloomfield
Township, when Birmingham was still a village. He held this office four years, 1921 to
1925, and was then elected Township Supervisor from 1925 to 1930.
After six years on the Board of Supervisors, during which he served a term as
Chairman, Moore was appointed to the Board of Auditors in June 1930.
He helped guide the growth of the County from a population of less than a quarter
million when he took office to nearly three quarters of a million today, and played a
leading role in the construction of the County's nearly 8 million dollar Service Center.
His career as a County official was the longest in the history of Oakland County.
Robert Y. More retired January 1 of this year after 34 years on the Oakland County
Board of Auditors. He served as Chairman of the Board 24 years.
He was a member of the Presbyterian Church, Birmingham Lodge No. 44 F & AM,
the Elk's Lodge, National Association of County Officers, National Purchasing Agents
Organization and Municipal Finance Officers Association and a Charter Member of the
Birmingham Exchange Club.
Robert Y. Moore's long public service career and accomplishments in the interests
of county government and the common good of his fellow man will long serve as a goal
for all of us who knew him.
MR. CHAIRMAN, I move that the foregoing memorial be spread upon the minutes
of the Board of Supervisors and that the County Clerk be instructed to forward a certified
copy thereof to his surviving wife Lillian and daughter Susan.
SPECIAL COMMITTEE
David Levinson, Chairman
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J. Wesley DuOcan . William A. Fwart , ,