Basil T. “Tom” Moore Jr. died of respiratory and cardiac failure on Sept. 19, 2018, in Las Vegas, Nev.

He was born in Glen Ridge, New Jersey on Aug. 30, 1940, to Basil T. and Margaret (Bowman) Moore. He grew up in West Chester County, New York, and graduated from St. Bonaventure University, receiving the title of distinguished military graduate in the ROTC program. After U. S. Army Artillery and Missile School at Fort Sill, Oklahoma, Tom served in the 101st Airborne Division of the U.S. Army from 1963 to 1969, eventually reaching the rank of captain.

Upon the completion of his military service, he spent his entire career in the furniture manufacturing industry as general manager and consultant for companies along the eastern seaboard and in the Midwest.

In March 1991, he married Susan Patterson Church. Two years later he retired, and they moved from Pennsylvania into a log cabin in the woods of Clark Fork, Idaho. Shortly thereafter, he resumed his childhood passion for skiing and soon became a professional ski instructor and race coach. In the late 1990s, the couple purchased 20 acres in the woods outside Sandpoint and built a timber-frame home where they lived until 2011 when doctors told him that he needed to move to a warmer, dryer climate. By 2014, due to severe COPD, the pulmonologist in Las Vegas told him that he could not fly nor could he ever return to Sandpoint and survive in that climate, thus forcing them to sell their home that they worked so hard to establish.

He is survived by his wife, Susan; his stepdaughter and her husband, Becky and Kipp Fawcett; his stepson and his wife, Martin and Michelle Snyder; and four grandchildren, Abby, Jake, Marty and Brooke. He is also survived by his best friend, Bill Moody, of Sandpoint, and his brother Lannie.

Tom will be laid to rest at the Southern Nevada Veterans Memorial Cemetery in a private ceremony. In lieu of flowers, donations may be made to helpusadopt.org