George L. Moses
Died March 4th, 2015 at age 100.
George L. Moses of Falmouth, MA, USA, and Port Maitland, NS died on March 4. He would have been 101 years old on March 26. Born in Medford, MA to Harold and Beatrice Moses, Mr. Moses has owned a home at 346 Richmond Road in Port Maitland since the early 60s. The farm next door was his grandfather’s (Samuel Moses), and he visited there every summer beginning as a teenager.
Mr. Moses was a reporter, advertising executive, columnist, teacher, coach, Town Meeting moderator. He wrote two books, “Ring Around the Punch Bowl,” that tells the story of the 1972 gift of 386-acre parcel of land, Beebe Woods in Falmouth, to the town by the Josiah K. Lilly II family and another that was a collection of his newspaper columns.
He graduated from Medford High School in 1932 and from Boston University in 1936.
He came to Falmouth, MA after graduation to work for The Falmouth Enterprise as a reporter. In 1939, he married Margaret Vanneman, a BU graduate.
Mr. Moses left the Enterprise to work at the advertising agency BBDO in New York City. He enjoyed it but missed writing, and began writing a column, “Sound Breezes,” for the Falmouth Enterprise then “Slightly Salty” in the Cape Cod Standard Times. He later wrote a column called “Dry On The Rocks” for the Enterprise until he was 80.
He began teaching a journalism class at Lawrence High School in 1960. He served as Town Meeting moderator from 1959 to 1979.
He was predeceased by his wife in 2003 and his granddaughter, also named Margaret Moses, in 2012. He leaves two children, Bradford L. Moses and his wife, Carol Moses, of Grantham, New Hampshire, and Sally Harrington and her husband, Fred Harrington, of Amherst, New Hampshire; five grandchildren: Jeffrey Harrington of Dover, New Hampshire; Marc Harrington of Pawlet, Vermont; Matthew Harrington of Bedford, New Hampshire; Jean Moses of Princeton, New Jersey, and Christine Gorwood of Arlington; three great-grandchildren: Samantha Harrington, Melissa Moses and Findlay Moses; and a sister, Jeanne Maspero of Winchester; and a niece and a nephew.