James Robert "Jim" Moore

1948 - 2022

SAN FRANCISCO, Calif. - James Robert "Jim" Moore, 73, of San Francisco, Calif., died Tuesday, Feb. 15, 2022, at Zuckerberg San Francisco General Hospital.
A celebration of life and interment in the Greeley (Nebraska) Sacred Heart Cemetery will be held at a later date.
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Jim was born May 12, 1948, in Spalding, Neb. His parents, Robert and Betty Moore, raised him on a small farm about three miles east of Greeley.
He attended Sacred Heart School in Greeley, graduating from a class of 27 students in 1966.
Shortly after his graduation, he moved to Grand Island, where he worked at the Cornhusker Army Ammunition Plant, for ordnance supplied for the Vietnam War, on a bomb assembly line.
That fall, he enrolled in the Grand Island School of Business and graduated in 1967. The following fall he enrolled in Kearney State College in Kearney. He majored in journalism and was editor of the college newspaper his junior year. He graduated from Kearney State College with a Bachelor of Arts degree in journalism.
Following graduation in May 1971, he moved to San Francisco, Calif., and obtained employment as an office manager for the George S. May International Company, a management consulting firm.
In 1977 he was accepted as a deputy sheriff with the San Francisco Sheriff's Department and remained employed with that organization through 2004. During his career, he served in nearly every division and jail in the department. He was promoted to senior deputy in 1981. The next year, Jim was promoted to "Acting Sheriff's Sergeant" and placed in charge of the Investigative Services Unit. He soon was appointed to the sergeant position on a permanent basis - a position he held for the remainder of his career.
Though he enjoyed nearly every assignment he was given, he particularly recalled supervising a detail of deputies to secure the Geary Street/Masonic Avenue tunnel during the visit of Pope John Paul II to San Francisco in 1987.
He also had the opportunity to meet Mother Teresa during one of her visits to San Francisco to meet with then Mayor Diane Feinstein in the 1980s.
When the sheriff of Nottingham (England) and his delegation paid a diplomatic visit to San Francisco in the 1980s, Jim was again placed in charge of a detail to escort the sheriff to his various meetings around the city. He retired after 26 1/2 years of service at the rank of sergeant in 2004.
Survivors include his sisters Ellen (Dan) Gitt of Kearney and Kathleen (Paul) Glaser of Spalding; sister-in-law Tami Moore of Kearney; brother-in-law Dennis Bruns of Grand Island; along with numerous nieces, nephews and cousins.
Jim was preceded in death by his parents; brother Patrick Moore; sister Ann Bruns; and his longtime partner, James Roediger.