Jean F. Moore

Jean F. (O’Brien) Moore, 94, of West Roxbury, MA, passed away on November 25, 2025. She was the wife of the late Hugh L. Moore, Esq., the sister of the late Eleanor M. Durkin, and the mother of Paul Moore, Esq. of Weymouth, MA.

Jean was born on August 26, 1931, in Clinton, MA, the younger daughter of Edward F. O’Brien and Mary A. (McNally) O’Brien. After graduating from Clinton High School in 1949, she worked as an assistant for Democratic Congressman Philip Philbin of Clinton, as an executive secretary at Raytheon in Waltham, MA, and for United Aircraft in Hartford, CT. She had a magnificent singing voice and studied vocal performance with instructors at the former Atlantic Union College in South Lancaster, MA.

Jean grew up in a large, extended Irish-American family, including her parents, her sister Eleanor, and four of her first cousins. In the O’Brien household, music and laughter always abounded, and Jean was always the life of the party.

She married the late attorney Hugh Moore in 1961, and they lived in Vernon, CT, Hudson, MA and later Warwick, RI, where they raised their son, Paul.

In addition to her son, she leaves two nieces, Anne-Marie Lawlor of Duxbury, MA, and Jean Durkin of Clinton, and two nephews, James Durkin, Jr. of Spencer, MA and Edward Durkin of Franklin and Dennis, MA, and Naples, FL.

Visiting hours will be held on Tuesday, December 2, 2025, at Keohane Funeral Home, 785 Hancock Street, Quincy from 9:30-11 AM, immediately followed by a Funeral Service at 11 AM. Burial will be at Pawtuxet Memorial Park in Warwick, RI. Donations to the Alzheimer’s Association in Jean’s memory may be made at 225 N. Michigan Ave., Floor 17, Chicago, IL 60601. Paul would like to thank Jean’s wonderful team of caregivers at Deutsches Altenheim, West Roxbury.