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Moore Funeral Home Rebuilds, Keeping 50 Year Memory Alive

690 views · Published 6 August 2012 · 2:17 · Indexed 28 October 2026

Channel: WTVC NewsChannel 9 · 2012 · News & Politics

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by Alyssa Spirato It was over fifty years of memories,  taken away in an instant. The April 27th tornadoes destroyed everything in it's path,  including homes and businesses all over the area.Now, after more than a year of rebuilding, one Trenton business is back open and ready for a new beginning."it's an asset to the community, certainly to our business," says Larry Moore, President of Moore Funeral Homes.The tornado last year tore through Moore Funeral Homes in Trenton, only to leave behind shattered glass, and only a little more than half of the top floor."A friend called me and said, you need to come to the funeral home. (I) Drove off of Lookout Mountain and across the railroad bridge, I could see the building was gone," says Moore."The parlors were, glass shattered everywhere, you couldn't even walk in here. Took long enough to start rebuilding," says Moore's grandson, Gavin Tierce.After 3 months of debris cleanup and 12 months of construction,  Moore Funeral Home is back in business. Moore says he wasn't able to salvage much in the old building, but what he could keep, he did."I wondered sometimes. But the whole time going out in the community, post office, restaurant, church, when's the building going to be ready, when's the building going to be ready," says Moore.A time frame that Moore's grandson thought was an eternity."It was very long. We had to hire some workers, and they've done everything," says Tierce.

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