Moira League

Moira League was born to Thomas Robson Bell and Flora (nee Dereghetti), the fourth of six children, in Edinburgh, Scotland. She attended London Street Elementary and Bellevue Secondary School, where she was the Girl's Champion in athletics (setting school records which remained on the books for years) and graduated second in her class.

After leaving school, she became a book-binder in a printing firm. For a few years, she lived in Australia, where she became a member of the Episcopal Church. Returning to Scotland, she became a government telephone operator (before becoming computerized, hers was one of the voices recorded for the talking clock).

In 1970, she married Robert League, an American divinity student at Edinburgh University. They moved to Los Angeles, where they both worked as child care workers with emotionally disturbed, abused, and delinquent boys. When she was expecting her first child, she insisted on returning to her home so her family would be born in Scotland.

Robert Stewart was born in 1973, and a second son, Colin Thomas, was born in 1975. During this time, her husband was ordained to the ministry, and they served Liberton Kirk in Edinburgh and St. Mungo's Kirk in Alloa, Scotland.

In 1976, they accepted a call to serve a Methodist church in Shoshone, Idaho. Then, in 1979, they ministered to the First Presbyterian Church in Belleville, Kansas. In 1985, they served the West Carrollton Presbyterian Church in Dayton, Ohio. It was in 1993 that they accepted a call to the Mowrystown Presbyterian Church, where they remained until retiring at the end of 2008. While in this area, they lived first in Amelia, then moved into Brown County. Moira became a nurses' aide at Clermont Mercy Hospital and later joined the housekeeping staff until her retirement.

After battling A.L.S. (Lou Gehrig's Disease), Moira passed away peacefully on the April 9, 2010. She was preceded in death by her father and mother. She is survived by her husband of 40 years, Robert of Williamsburg; her sons, Robert Stewart of New Hampshire and daughter-in-law Caitlin and her grand-daughter Adlay, and Colin Thomas of Cincinnati; her sisters, who were with her at her passing, Evelyn Spencer of England and Dorothy Doig of Scotland; her brothers, Thomas of Scotland, Vincent of New Zealand, and Ronald of England; and numerous nephews, nieces, and cousins.

Services will be held at the Hillsboro Presbyterian Church on Wednesday, April 14, 2010 at 10 a.m. Committal will be at the Mowrystown Cemetery.

Memorials may be made to: Mowrystown Presbyterian Church, P.O. Box 2, Mowrystown, OH 45155, or Hospice of Cincinnati, 4310 Cooper Road, Cincinnati, OH 45242, or the ALS Association, 1170 Old Henderson Rd. Suite 221, Columbus, OH 43220.

The Edgington Funeral Home, Mowrystown, is in charge of arrangements. For more information and to access the online registerbook, visit www.edgingtonfuneralhomes.com.