Rebecca Moose

Rebecca Douglas McRackan Moose passed away May 16th 2015 after a long battle with Alzheimer's. She was born in 1932 in South Port, NC to the late Margaret Craig McRackan and Morris Thompson McRackan. Her twin sister was Catherine ?Ducky? McRackan and they were known by all as the McRackan twins. Rebecca grew up on the family farm outside of South Port. She loved to hunt, go to the beach and play basketball, she had a pony she was afraid of, a pet goat named Sargent Ray and two dogs named Mickey and Dot. After school she worked the fields picking beans and tobacco, swam in the creeks and adored being with her father out on the farm. Even in her last days when she could communicate very little she always knew what the words South Port meant?they meant home. Rebecca and Catherine left South Port after graduation from high school and they attended Meredith College where they both played basketball. They graduated and went to work as teachers in Laurinburg NC where the twins met their future husbands. Rebecca moved to Charlotte with her husband Donald Stanhope Moose and there she became mother to two daughters, Margaret Frances Moose and Helen Catherine Moose. After only eight short years of marriage Don died of a sudden heart attack and Rebecca was left alone with two small children in 1963. She spent the next 30 years of her life devoted to not only her children but the hundreds of children she taught. She was a teacher for the Charlotte Mecklenburg system for over 30 years and in that time she started many children on a path of learning. She was as caring a teacher as she was a mother and she loved each and everyone one of her students. Her job was humble but her gift to her community was great and I hope that there are many people out there who remember Mrs. Moose their first grade teacher with love as she remembered them, you her students are her true legacy. Rebecca suffered from Alzheimer?s for the last decade of her life but through it all she remained the gentle, sweet soul she had always been. Long after speech had deserted her she still could show us a glimpse of her old self with her twinkling eyes and honest smile. She is survived by her two daughters, Margaret Moose Landers and Helen Catherine Moose, her two loving nieces Suzanne Revels Daniels and Cynthia Lucille Smith who visited her up until the end and nine grandchildren. Good bye mother, you will be missed. Please sign the online guestbook at www.jenkinsfuneralhome.net. The Moose family has entrusted arrangements to Jenkins Funeral Home and Cremation Service in Newton-#828-464-1555.