Henry Moses

Henry Irvin (H.I.) Moses, Jr., CSM, USAR, Retired, born on 13 August 1918, passed away on 2 August 2013, at the age of 94 in Radford, VA. CSM Moses resided in Christiansburg.

He was preceded in death by his parents, Henry Irvin Moses, Sr. and Mary Louise Moses; his beautiful “Peachy” of 70 years; his son, Henry Irvin Moses, III; and a sister, Virginia Matherly. He is survived by his daughters, Ellen Moses Tompkins of Jacksonville, FL, and Julia Moses Page and husband Marvin of Christiansburg, VA; grandchildren, Russ Dudley of Fairplay, SC, Jacqueline Dudley, of Roanoke, VA, Henry Moses, IV of Christiansburg, VA, Joseph and Preston Tompkins of Jacksonville, FL; and great-grandchildren, Logan Collins, and Autumn, Alex, and Lily Tompkins of Jacksonville, FL.

CSM Moses served in the 7th Army in the European Theater. He enlisted in the US Army and was stationed at Ft. Story, VA, then Ft. Sill, OK, 780th Field Artillery. He served honorably and was a soldier’s soldier. He retired after 49 years of service to his country from the USAR with the rank of CSM.

He maintained his military bearing all his life and was known for his positive attitude, drive, motivation, great humor and his ability to get things done. He believed where there was a will, there was a way.

He attended Virginia Tech where he met the love of his life on the tennis court. Their story was one of everlasting and true love.

CSM Moses was a role model to many and our hero. He served the Lord with all his heart, read his Bible daily, and encouraged all he came in contact with to accept Christ. He was a member of the Christiansburg Church of Christ.

The family will receive friends on Monday, August 5, 2013, from 5-8 p.m. at Horne Funeral Home. The funeral service will be held on Tuesday, August 6th at 12 noon at Christiansburg Church of Christ, with Mr. Dennis Curd officiating. Interment will follow in Sunset Cemetery with full military honors.

Special thanks to Dr. Harris, Dr. Leslie, and Dr. Ismatov, and to RNs Skylar and Helen of Carilion NRV Medical Center for their care, love and support of Daddy.

In lieu of flowers, the family requests donations made to the Wounded Warrior Project, Jacksonville, FL 32212. Online condolences may be left by visiting www.hornefuneralservice.com .

Rest in peace, Daddy. You will always be our hero and we will never forget your ability to lead by example. You are with Momma now. You truly fought the good fight, finished the course, and have united with the angels in heaven, including our Mother.

“You are the leaven which binds together the entire fabric of our national system of defense. From your ranks come the great captains who hold the nation’s destiny in their hands the moment the war tocsin sounds. The Long Gray Line has never failed us. Were you to do so, a million ghosts in olive drab, in brown khaki, in blue and gray, would rise from their white crosses thundering those magic words, Duty-Honor-Country.
This does not mean that you are war mongers. On the contrary, the soldier, above all other people, prays for peace, for he must suffer and bear the deepest wounds and scars of war. But always in our ears ring the ominous words of Plato, that wisest of all philosophers, “Only the dead have seen the end of war.”
The shadows are lengthening for me. The twilight is here. My days of old have vanished tone and tint; they have gone glimmering through the dreams of things that were. Their memory is one of wondrous beauty, watered by tears, and coxed and caressed by the smiles of yesterday. I listen vainly for the witching melody of faint bugles blowing reveille, of far drums beating the long roll. In my dreams I hear again the crash of guns, the rattle of musketry, the strange, mournful mutter of the battlefield.
But in the evening of my memory, always I come back to West Point. Always there echoes and re-echoes Duty-Honor-Country.” (excerpt from General of the Army Douglas MacArthur, from his last commencement speech at West Point 12 May 1962).

“Meet me at the War Memorial.”