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BY SUSAN USHER
Bennie Moore plans to watch his daughter graduate
from high school.
That doesn't sound unusually optimistic, but it
should. Bennie became a father for the first time on Friday,
Jan. 18, at 9:46 a.m., immediately earning the
nickname "Strom Thurmond" from doctors at Grand
Strand General Hospital in Myrtle Beach, S.C.
Sen. Thurmond, who fathered a child in his 70s, would
be about the only person unimpressed. Bennie may look
to be a well-built 45 or 50, but he became a father at age
61, when most men have reared their famiies and are
looking forward to Social Security checks.
"1 wasn't carrying on like I've seen a lot of fathers,"
he recalled in a recent interview basking in pride as he
carefully held his slumbering 12-day old daughter. "But I
knew I was a father."
He first held Alisha Danielle just moments after her
birth bv Caesarean sertinn and hnc
aspects of her care?except one.
"When he changes a diaper I'll let you know," promised
his wife, Earline Moore.
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old. He thinks the odds of getting there are pretty good.
His own father lived to age 76, his mother to age 89.
A perennial bachelor, the Hickman's Crossroads
native enjoyed playing the field for about 60 years before
he met the right woman. Earline, a native of Pensacola,
Fla., moved to the Grand Strand area about four years
ago.
"I never thought I'd get married?until I met her,"
Moore said, all the while grinning mischievously. "I birddogged
it, seeing this one one night, that one another."
He simply wasn't the marrying kind: friends would
havo hot on it
Earline, "Candy" to her friends, had experienced
one failed marriage and had no plans to wed again. The
mother of two grown children?David, 23, and Tina, 21,
she liked her newly found independence. She was selfemployed;
she was a survivor.
Luckily, love finds its own way.
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mutual friend, the two married on May 5, 1984, in a formal
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Church at Hickman's Crossroads.
I-ess than 10 montlis later, they became the parents
of a beautiful nine-pound. Hi-ounce girl. I-ast Wednesday
evening after corning in from his job tending the hog
parlor at Indigo Farms, Bennie had finished giving a colicky
Alisha her evening bottle when he and Earline sat
down to talk.
"I was totally shocked Once I got over that 1 was
tickled." Earline said, recalling her first reaction upon
news of the pregnancy.
"At first 1 was going to leave her," Bennie quipped.
Instead he started making the sometimes awkward
adjustment in roles from indesendent bachelor t<> iwitn
husband and father in less than a year's time.
Because of their ages parenthood hadn't been part of
their original plan, but you couldn't tell it by looking at
them today. With Alislia Danielle in their arms, Bennie's
and Earline's happiness is obvious.
"I wouldn't trade her for a million dollars," Moore
said as he looked lovingly at both wife and daughter.
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