{"id":29881,"date":"2016-06-01T10:30:30","date_gmt":"2016-06-01T14:30:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.unionvilletimes.com\/?p=29881"},"modified":"2016-06-01T10:05:22","modified_gmt":"2016-06-01T14:05:22","slug":"obituaries-francis-pat-moran","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.unionvilletimes.com\/?p=29881","title":{"rendered":"Obituaries: Francis &#8216;Pat&#8217; Moran"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.unionvilletimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/Obits-3.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-29892\" src=\"http:\/\/www.unionvilletimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/Obits-3-335x300.jpg\" alt=\"Obits\" width=\"335\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.unionvilletimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/Obits-3-335x300.jpg 335w, https:\/\/www.unionvilletimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/Obits-3-150x134.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.unionvilletimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/Obits-3-768x687.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.unionvilletimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/Obits-3.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 335px) 100vw, 335px\" \/><\/a>Francis \u201cPat\u201d Moran, age 92 of Kennett Square, PA, died Sunday May 29, 2016 at Mercy Fitzgerald Hospital in Darby, PA.\u00a0\u00a0 He was the husband of the late Mary Lou Myers Moran who died in May of 2014 and with whom he shared 64 years of marriage.<\/span><span class=\"s1\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Born in Kennett Square, PA, he was the son of the late Charles T. and the late Mary Jane (Crawford) Moran.\u00a0 Pat served our country during World War II in the Navy.\u00a0 He worked for many years as a truck driver for Mushroom Transportation and Gilbert Peirson <\/span><span class=\"s2\">Greenhouses<\/span><span class=\"s1\">.\u00a0<\/span><span class=\"s1\">\u00a0<\/span><!--more--><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">He was a member of the American Legion, the VFW and the Kennett Area Senior Center.\u00a0 He was one of two surviving members of his childhood group called \u201cThe Patch\u201d where he enjoyed playing all types of sports with his buddies.\u00a0 He was a Phillies fan and enjoyed collecting Lionel model trains.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Survivors include two sons, Charles Pat Moran Jr. (Giovanna) of Kennett Square and George W. Moran (Mary Alice) of Wilmington DE; one daughter, Mary Anne Moran of Kennett Square; one sister, Marian Johnson of West Grove; four grandchildren, Brian Price (Amanda) of VA, Travis Price of AZ, Alicia and Nicholas Moran of DE and two great-grandchildren, Amelia and Eleanor Price.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">In addition to his wife, he was predeceased by a sister Ann Fiore.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">You are invited to visit with Pat\u2019s family and friends from 7-9PM Thursday June 2, 2016 and 8:30 AM to 9AM Friday June 3, at the Kuzo &amp; Grieco Funeral Home Inc (610-444-4116) 250 W. State St. Kennett Square, PA 19348.\u00a0 His mass of Christian Burial will be 9:30AM Friday at St. Patrick Catholic Church 212 Meredith St. Kennett Square.\u00a0 Interment with full military honors <\/span><span class=\"s2\">will<\/span><span class=\"s1\"> be in St. Patrick Cemetery, Kennett Square.\u00a0 Contributions in his memory may be made to St. Patrick Catholic Church <\/span><span class=\"s3\">205 Lafayette St., Kennett Square, PA 19348<\/span><span class=\"s1\">. To view his online tribute and to share a memory with his family, please visit\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.griecocares.com\/\"><span class=\"s4\">www.griecocares.com<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Francis \u201cPat\u201d Moran, age 92 of Kennett Square, PA, died Sunday May 29, 2016 at Mercy Fitzgerald Hospital in Darby, PA.\u00a0\u00a0 He was the husband of the late Mary Lou Myers Moran who died in May of 2014 and with whom he shared 64 years of marriage.\u00a0 Born in Kennett Square, PA, he was the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":29892,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4586],"tags":[8475],"class_list":["post-29881","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-obituaries","tag-francis-pat-moran"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unionvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29881","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unionvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unionvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unionvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unionvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=29881"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.unionvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29881\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29893,"href":"https:\/\/www.unionvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29881\/revisions\/29893"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unionvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/29892"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unionvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=29881"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unionvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=29881"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unionvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=29881"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}