Erin Colleen Moore

Erin Colleen Moore, 47, of Winston-Salem, NC, died at Kate B. Reynolds Hospice Home on Tuesday, November 10, 2026.

This cherished child was born on April 14, 1979, at the Lawrence County General Hospital in Ironton, OH, the daughter of Alan Lee and Lana Jones Moore.

Raised in Ironton, OH, with a loving family consisting of her parents, her now late grandmother, Avanelle Jones, and her late aunt, Karen J. McCown, to guide her.

Erin was a Christian and a member of St. Paul Lutheran Church in Ironton. She graduated Magna Cum Laude from Ironton High School in 1997, would go on the Centre College earning a degree in Economics, and then worked for Kentucky Farm Bureau in Louisville, KY, for 5 years before attending Wake Forest University to obtain her MBA. She then worked for Hanes Brands in Winston-Salem, NC, for 18 years rising to be a director of the company with stints leading the Socks Group, and the Mass Market Underwear Group. What kept her at Hanes was the wonderful people she worked with, as they became her family.

The Moore family loved to travel! Erin and her parents covered the whole United States from early travels to Williamsburg, to Florida for Brig’s wedding while she was in grade school, to junior high travels in their van to the Rockies and then the Southwest area of the US. She loved California for its glamour. The last of the 50 states visited before COVID were Hawaii and then Alaska, which Erin and her parents loved. Erin loved going to the North Carolina beaches each summer with her friends, Amy and Russ Lauren, and going on ski trips to several places out West each February with a group of ski enthusiasts like the Lautens.

Erin took her baby cats, Rory and Roxie, to Winston-Salem, NC, as she went through grad school. They lived good long lives with Erin. After her last cat passed away, she adopted her cat, Lily, who lived only a few months, and then she adopted Gemma, who now lives with Erin’s parents…. a loving and sweet cat Gemma is. These wonderful beings were her special family, giving her joy.

Along “Life’s Highway”, she made lifelong friends with various groups: her college friends and sorority sisters, Stacey, Lea Ann, and Meridith; her Louisville friends, Emily and Jim Book; her Junior League friends, Leigh Sobel and Erin Mueller; her co-workers, Caitlin, Amy L, Kelly, Julianna, Katherine, Lacey, Ed E, Jaye and Brent Powell, among many others; her Pure-Barre buddies, Rebecca, Carolyn, Christina B, Christina C, Mallory, Traci, Amy G, and many, many more. Her very SPECIAL group of Ironton gals, Brennan, Bridget, Erika, Jamie, Jessica, and Mollie stayed connected through thick and thin, through the good times and bad. What a TRIBE they were!

Erin’s family would like to thank all of those who sent well wishes over the last month.

Kudos to her veterinarian, Dr. Shannon Jarvis, and her oncologist, Dr. Erin Jepson. You two are the BEST!

A time and place for friends to celebrate Erin in Winston-Salem, NC, will be announced in due time. A service at St. Paul’s Lutheran Church in Ironton, OH, will be announced and updated on Phillips Funeral Home’s website, www.phillipsfuneralhome.net, at a later date. After all of Erin’s service have been completed, her urn will be placed in the Moore crypt in Woodland Abbey, where now 5 generations of Moore’s have been laid to rest.

Hayworth-Miller Silas Creek Chapel is assisting the family of Ms. Erin Colleen Moore.