R. Harrell Moore

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Obituary

R. Harrell Moore, 16 days short of his 88th birthday, passed from this life on January 9, 2020. Harrell was born to Plasco Guymon Moore and Charlotte M. Moore (nee Jones) on January 25, 1932 in Amarillo, Texas.

Harrell spent his younger years growing up near his mother’s family in North Texas, including the Panhandle, near the Jones family ranch and in Vernon, TX, near his Grandmother. He spent his formative years, after the age of nine in Houston, TX, where he attended High School at Austin High and met the next-door neighbor’s daughter, whom he married right out of High School in 1950, and was married to her for 68 and ½ years before her death on December 31, 2018. They spent college andearly married years in Austin, Texas. They moved to Midland, Texas in the late 50s where Harrell practiced Law as a City and County Attorney, and also as a Lawyer in Private practice. In Midland he was very active in his church and in local music and drama. In 1968 he took on a position as an Assistant Texas State Attorney General, as he represented the Texas Department of Corrections at the Main Unit offices of the Texas Prison System in Huntsville, Texas until 1975. With the exception of two years (summer ‘75 – summer ’77) where they resided in Spring, Texas, Harrell and his wife, Brownie, were residents of Huntsville, Texas until 2018. In 1975 Harrell changed careers and moved into the world of the Independent Landman