JUANITA MOORE WAS BORN TO ODELL JOHN MOORE SR. AND MAMMIE MILLER MOORE IN CLEVELAND OHIO. SHE WAS THE THIRD ELDEST OF NINE CHILDREN. THE FAMILY MOVED TO TWINSBURG, OHIO WHEN SHE WAS AN INFANT. JUANITA ATTENDED THE MOUNT OLIVE BAPTIST CHURCH IN TWINSBURG, OHIO AS A CHILD, BUT UPON GRADUATING FROM TWINSBURG HIGH SCHOOL IN 1952 AND NO JOBS IN TWINSBURG, SHE MOVED BACK TO CLEVELAND, OHIO AND LIVED WITH AN AUNT. LATER, SHE AND HER OLDER SISTER LORETTA MOVED IN TOGETHER UNTIL LORETTA MARRIED JOHN CURRY.

ON JUANITA’S 18TH BIRTHDAY, SHE BEGAN WORKING AT MT. SINAI HOSPITAL AS A NURSE’S AID. LATER SHE WENT TO JANE ADDAMS VOCATIONAL HIGH SCHOOL AND GRADUATED AS A LICENSE PRACTICAL NURSE (LPN) AND WENT ON TO PURSUE AND WAS HIRED AT THE VETERANS’ HOSPITAL OF CLEVELAND, OHIO. SHE SERVED THE VETERANS FROM VARIOUS BRANCHES OF THE SERVICE FOR MANY YEARS BUT UNFORTUNATELY, JUANITA’S EMPLOYMENT WAS BROUGHT TO AN EARLY END DUE TO A BIAS ALTERCATION. BUT JUANITA HAD THE WISDOM AND TENACITY TO GET THE NAACP INVOLVED, THEY HANDLED HER CASE AND SHE WON!

UPON WINNING THE CASE, JUANITA SUBMITTED HER RESIGNATION AND PROCEEDED WITH DETERMINATION AND RESILIENCE TO OBTAIN EMPLOYMENT AT CLEVELAND CLINIC AND WAS HIRED. JUANITA WAS EMPLOYED AT CLEVELAND CLINIC UNTIL HER RETIREMENT AFTER 25 YEARS OF SERVICE!

JUANITA MET A MAN NAMED RAY ORR AND AFTER A VERY SHORT COURTSHIP THEY WERE UNITED IN HOLY MATRIMONY ON MAY 3, 1958, AND FROM THIS UNION SIX CHILDREN WERE BORN: VALERIE, DEBBORAH, RHONDA, RAY, JANICE, AND ROSALYNN. AS TIME CONTINUED, JUANITAS BROTHER ODELL ASKED IF THEY WOULD LIKE BIBLE STUDIES AND THEY ACCEPTED. THEY LEARNED THE BEAUTIFUL TRUTH OF THE “THREE ANGELS MESSAGE”, GOT BAPTIZED AND JOINED THE BETHEL SEVENTH DAY ADVENTIST CHURCH.

JUANITA WAS A VERY ACTIVE CHURCH MEMBER WHEREVER THE LORD SENT HER. SHE HAD A BEAUTIFUL SOPRANO VOICE AND COULD PLAY THE PIANO NICELY, EVEN THOUGH SHE HAD A CRIPPLED FINGER, IT NEVER HINDERED HER ABILITY TO PLAY. JUANITA PLAYED THE PIANO FOR CHURCH SERVICES AND SANG IN THE SANCTUARY CHOIR. SHE ALSO WITNESSED ABOUT THE LOVE OF GOD AND GAVE BIBLE STUDIES WHENEVER THE OPPURTUNITY WAS PRESENT.

AFTER MANY YEARS, JUANITA, RAYAND THEIR FAMILY WOULD LEAVE BETHEL AND JOIN MARANATHA SEVENTH DAY ADVENTIST CHURCH, BUT AS TIME WENT ON SOMEONE SUGGESTED THAT SHE JOIN HER HUSBAND AT TWINSBURG SEVENTH DAY ADVENTIST CHURCH WHICH IS NOW HOPE COMMUNITY SEVENTH DAY ADVENTIST CHURCH. SHE CONTINUED TO USE HER TALENTS AND GIFTS IN THE CHURCH AND THE COMMUNITY, BRINGING SOULS TO CHRIST ALONG SIDE HER HUSBAND UNTIL HIS DEATH.
ON AUGUST 19, 2023, JUANITA ORR QUIETLY SLIPPED INTO A PEACEFUL REST.

SHE LEAVES TO CHERISH BEAUTIFUL MEMORIES, HER FIVE CHILDREN: VALERIE BISHOP, DEBORAH TROTTER (MICHAEL), RAY C. ORR JR. (JO), JANICE SIMMS, ROSALYNN TANGARA (BREMA), HER SISTER, LINDA MCDANIEL, BROTHER-IN-LAWS, SISTER-N-LAWS AND A HOST OF GRAND CHILDREN, GREAT GRAND CHILDREN, NIECES, NEPHEWS, AND FRIENDS.

PRECEDING HER IN DEATH IS HER HUSBAND, RAY C. ORR SR., HER DAUGHTER; RHONDA GARDNER, PARENTS, SISTERS: LORETTA CURRY, EMMA JEAN MOORE, BROTHERS: ODELL JOHN MOORE JR., CHARLIE MOORE, DONALD MOORE, WILLIAM MOORE, RICHARD MOORE.