Treasures from the Attic of the Heart

Susan Moore is a Floridian, born in Tampa and graduated from Mound Park School of Nursing. In St. Petersburg. After graduation, she married Shields Moore and they moved Louisiana to attend New Orleans Baptist Theological Seminary. After graduation, Shields pastored Churches in Virginia until his parents became Il and needed family nearby. In Tampa Susan served as a nurse at the clinic at USF. Shields worked for the City of Tampa and volunteered as the first volunteer Chaplain for the Fire Department. In 1970, Shields and Susan and their five children moved to St. Petersburg. Shields worked for the Commission on Community Relations and later the Airport Limo Company. Susan worked a few years in home-health nursing and twenty –one years in the Division of Nursing at St. Petersburg Junior College. She is the author of Nursing Math Simplified. When she retired in January 1998, she joined her Husband Shields at Tampa International Airport as a volunteer Chaplain. Shields had begun this work in the mid- nineties. He and Susan served there together until he became ill. Following his death in April 2012, Susan returned one day a week to the Airport Chaplaincy her husband had loved so much.