Notes:
Data source is the 1990 book, "Moomaw-Mumma-Mumaw-Mumaugh Genealogy" compiled by Robert Austin Moomaw (deceased).
Data source is William "Ned" Moomaw, deceased
Wilmer Edmund Moomaw - (Daily Progress) & (Northern Virginia Daily)
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Wilmer Edmund Moomaw, 69, Professor Emeritus at the University of Virginia, died on Wednesday, December 19, 2007, in Charlottesville.
Ned Moomaw was born and raised in Orkney Springs, Virginia, where his parents, the late Wilmer E. and Nellie S. Moomaw ran Shrine Mont, The Conference Center of the Episcopal Diocese of Virginia, for many years.
He was the first in his family to earn a degree from the University of Virginia. Since that first one in 1961, in his immediate family alone there have been seven more, including his own Ph.D. in American Constitutional Law. His academic and administrative career took him from Charlottesville, throughout the Southeast, to Western and Eastern Europe, England, and the Far East, and finally back to Charlottesville for the last 20 years. He delighted in teaching fourth year undergraduates about the First and Fourteenth Amendments. His fourth-year seminars always were among the most popular classes in the Department of Politics and he always received perhaps the best evaluations in the Department. One student, not knowing it was the last, wrote the following about Ned's last class last spring: "Professor Moomaw is a class act. It doesn't get any better than this."
Ned Moomaw is survived by his wife, Suzanne, of Charlottesville; two daughters, Elizabeth Moomaw Peyton and her husband, Will, of Charlottesville, and Amy Moomaw Goodnight and her husband, Will, of Charlotte; and a son, Wilmer Edmund Moomaw III of Charlottesville; and five grandchildren. He is survived also by two brothers, Donald and his wife Thelma of Orkney Springs; John and his wife Judi of Orkney Springs; and a sister, Carolyn Chilton and her husband John, also of Orkney Springs. There also is a whole Moomaw clan of cousins, aunts, uncles, nieces, and nephews.
Along his long academic and administrative career, there were many awards, recognitions, and memberships. In the many times he was asked about the accomplishment of which he was most proud, his reply was always the same: "That all my children still come home."
The family suggests that those wishing to do memorials consider making them to Shrine Mont, The Episcopal Diocese of Virginia, 110 West Franklin Street, Richmond, VA 23220.
A memorial service will be held 2 p.m. Saturday, December 22, 2007, at Emmanuel Episcopal Church, Route 250 West of Charlottesville in Greenwood, Virginia. A committal service for the family will take place on Sunday, December 23, 2007, at the Cathedral Shrine of the Transfiguration in Orkney Springs, Virginia.
Hill and Wood Funeral Home is in charge of arrangements.