Mrs. Ivy Moseley

Claire Ivy Moseley, 100, passed away August 31, 2013. Katherine Claire Ivy Moseley was born April 7, 1913 in West Point, Mississippi to the late Mary Witherspoon Dinsmore Ivy and Dr. Frank Price Ivy. She was a graduate of Agnes Scott College, and taught elementary school in Indianola for a brief time. She moved back to West Point where she married, reared her family, and was active in her church and her community. Claire married Beauregard "Bory" Moseley, Jr. on June 8, 1938, in West Point. Funeral services will be September 4 at 11:00 a.m. from First Presbyterian Church, EPC with the Rev. Steve Davis officiating. Visitation will be from 10:00 until service time at the church. Burial will follow in Greenwood Cemetery. Calvert Funeral Home of West Point is in charge of arrangements. Survivors include two daughters, Kay Moseley White (James M.) of Brent, AL, Judy Moseley Rice (Thomas I. III) of Ridgeland; five grandchildren: James M. White, Jr., Beauregard Moseley White, Katherine Claire White Foley, Thomas Moseley Rice, and Mary Katherine Rice Neely; eight great grandchildren: James M. White, III, Samuel Moseley White, Franklin Price Foley, Robert Harper Foley, Alexander Gates Foley, Katherine Clayton Neely, Eleanor Grace Neely, and Mary Lanford Neely. She was predeceased by her husband, Beauregard Moseley, Jr., her parents, Dr. Frank Price Ivy and Mary Witherspoon Dinsmore Ivy, and her two sisters, Alma Earle Ivy Rose and Mary Ivy Chenault. Pallbearers will be Jay White, Beau White, Tom M. Rice, Dave Foley, Clay Neely, Jim White, Tom I. Rice, III. Memorials may be made to Palmer Home for Children, P. O. Box 746, Columbus, MS 39701, or French Camp Academy, 1 Fine Place, French Camp, MS 39745.