George D. Moser, 97, died peacefully on Sat, December 28, 2024 in Kansas City, MO after a brief illness. He was born April 20, 1927 in Independence, MO to Fred Moser, Jr. and Louise Ann Wall. 

George grew up in Puryear, TN where he helped his family work the farm and played trumpet in the high school band.  Poor farming conditions prompted a move to Washington, DC in 1942 where George graduated from McKinnley Tech High School. He sailed the Potomac River and the Chesapeake Bay with the Sea Scouts and took care of Arthur Godfrey’s sailboat.  George served in the US Navy for two years at the end of World War II as a radio gunman in a torpedo bomber. He worked at the Pentagon and for the U.S. Public Health Service while attending college on the G.I. Bill. Soon he met Dorothy J. Wills of Tacoma Park, MD at a Sunday church meeting. They were engaged by the end of that summer. They married on August 30th,1951.  He finished his B.A. in Public Administration from American University in 1952.  They started their family then moved to Chicago where George worked for the Department of the Navy.  He transferred to Kansas City to work at the Computer Center for the Department of Agriculture.  He started as a programmer in 1956, became a systems analyst and eventually Chief of the Division.  He had almost 39 years of Federal government service when he retired in April 1982.  All the while, George and Dorothy enjoyed camping, canoeing, and sailing with their three daughters.  After retirement, George and Dorothy built their dream house, an A-frame in the Ozarks overlooking the Pomme de Terre River. They had an active life enjoying gardening, square dancing and traveling for many years.   They returned to Kansas City in the 2000s to be near family.

George is predeceased by Dorothy whom he cared for at home until she passed away in 2010.  In 2013, he married Cora Tuttle of Raymore, MO who died in 2017. He was a wise, kind and generous man who will be missed by all surviving family: daughters Dianne Jacobs, Denise Moser (Debra Connor), Donna McGeehan (Edward McGeehan), grandchildren Eli Jacobs (Gillian Maurer) and Chris Jacobs (Kairit Kuldmets) and great-grandchildren Dominic and Hannia Lepe and Clara and Ellis Johnson. 

Inurnment will be at the Arlington National Cemetery Columbarium in Virginia. Arrangements provided by the Cremation Society of Kansas and Missouri. Contributions can be directed to the Kansas City Hospice or the Nature Conservancy. Private family memorial to follow.