4 Jacksonville nonprofits receive bequests from late federal judge and wife totaling $9.6 million
Four Jacksonville nonprofits have each received $2.4 million from a trust established by the late U.S. District Judge John H. Moore II and his wife.
Three of the bequests from the Honorable John H. Moore and Joan Kraft Moore Living Trust — designated for Community Hospice and Palliative Care Foundation, Dreams Come True and Mayo Clinic — were announced Wednesday. Ronald McDonald House Charities of Jacksonville revealed its gift in early August.
“The Moores were a prime example of giving back to the community. Their legacy will live on through their thoughtful gift that will impact future generations,” said Amy Davis, vice president of the Community Hospice & Palliative Care Foundation, the last of the nonprofits to receive its distribution. “This transformative gift will be invested into our endowment, enabling our free programs to continue and grow into the future.”
Moore spent 28 years on the bench, the last three as chief of Florida’s Middle District, stretching from Jacksonville to Naples. He retired from the federal bench at the end of 1995 but remained as a senior judge and continued to hear cases until a few years before his death in 2013 at age 83, according to a Times-Union news obituary.
His wife, Joan, a former high school English teacher, died in April at 87. They married in 1951.
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