FLOYD BRYAN MOORE
Apr 9, 2018Bryan, Brazos County, Texas, only son of Floyd Julius and Opal Barnett Moore. He died at his home Tuesday, April 3, 2018, on his beloved 6J Ranch. He married his wife of 63 years, Maryann Rizzo Moore, Nov. 7, 1954, in Bryan, Brazos County, Texas. They are the parents of son, John Floyd Moore, and daughter, Donna Marie Moore Albert.He attended grade school in Edge, Texas, and Bryan ISD until tenth-grade, when he dropped out of school to work full-time. He loved to reminisce that he was earning more than the superintendent of schools at the time he chose to leave public school. Later, that same administrator would persuade him to enter Sam Houston State University as an agriculture major. He ultimately completed one and half years of college education in meat processing before focusing, again, on his work career. During his tenure at SHSU, he was a member of the ROTC. Due to his financial support of SHSU, he was honored to be named a member of the SHSU President’s Club.His illustrious career spanned an incredible 72 years, as he entered the workforce in his father’s auction barn at the age of 12. By the age of 14, he was auctioneering professionally. At various times, he owned and operated 13 Texas auction houses. In conjunction with his auctioneering career, he bred and raised cattle from 1960 until 2010. He was a master at locating pasture land all over the United States to maintain fed cattle. They were ultimately sold to wholesale meat markets. During that same time period, he had opportunity to buy and sell thousands of acres of pasture and ranch land which often funded his cattle operation.In 1980, he entered the paint horse business. The industry now acknowledges him as one of the top paint horse breeders in the world. As stated by the APHA, “he built an equine empire, an operation known for its colorful tobiano cow horses with the blood of the renowned mare Delta flowing through their veins.” His horses have literally been sold world-wide, as well as across the U.S. He was honored to learn he and his wife will be inducted into the American Pa... (The Navasota Examiner)
