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Jack Ousley Moore, 98 years old, passed peacefully into God’s loving care at home in Houston on Saturday, Jan. 23, surrounded by family.
“Triplets, and All Boys” declared the Brownwood newspaper when Jack was born on Dec. 4, 1922, in Clio, Brown County, Texas. The triplets, Jack, Joe and Jene, joined their five other siblings. The Moore family lived far from town, so their father, Lawrence Moore, delivered all three babies, each weighing around eight pounds.
Sadly, one of the triplets, Joe, died as a young boy, but the identical twins, Jack and Jene, continued through life as best friends and constant companions. They enrolled in Texas A&M together in 1941 and they enlisted in the army together in December 1941. Both Jack and Jene became officers and served in the Philippines where Jack became company commander. They attended the famous Ag gie Muster on the island of Corregidor on Apr. 21, 1946, and are in the iconic photo of that occasion. After the war, the twins returned to A&M to graduate with the class of 1945 and then ranched with their father and older brother on the Moore Brothers Ranch in Schleicher County. Even as adults, Jack and Jene looked exactly the same and there are countless family stories of friends, and even family, confusing them.