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Posted by: Katharine Heriges on Dec 1, 2017

Former Hamilton County Judge and state legislator Don Moore died on Nov. 28. He was 89. Moore was a graduate of the University of Tennessee College of Law and a veteran of World War II and the Korean War with the U.S. Army. He was elected in 1956 to the Tennessee house of Representatives and in 1966 to the Tennessee State Senate, where he served as chair of the Fiscal Review Committee. From 1974 to 1978 he served as the County Judge of Hamilton County. He served as a Hamilton County Court Judge from 1978 to 1982 and was named Legislative Conservationist of the Year in 1968. A celebration of life will be held graveside at Beautiful Greenwood Cemetery on Monday at 1:30 p.m. Donations in his memory may be made to the American Diabetes Association.