“Good night, sweet princess, and flights of angels sing thee to thy rest.”—“Hamlet,” Act V, Scene II.
It is with a profound sense of sorrow, pain and anguish that the family of Colin A. Moore announces the sudden and untimely passing of his beloved daughter, Simone Moore. Simone Indira Colleen Moore was born on July 26, 1966, to Lucille Bisnee Singh of Campbellville, Georgetown, Guyana. Simone was a dedicated and committed young lady who passed the Common Entrance Examination at age 11, and won a scholarship to Bishop’s High School in Georgetown, Guyana.
Simone emigrated to the U.S. with her mother in 1978, took the New York State Regents Examination and gained admission to Brooklyn Technical High School. She attended John Jay College of Criminal Justice in New York on a three-year accelerated program and graduated with a BA degree (summa cum laude) in June 1994. She was the recipient of the Aaron Diamond Fellowship and Ronald McNair Scholarship. She attended Hofstra University School of Law in Hempstead, N.Y., on a merit scholarship and pursued an accelerated academic program in two and one-half years, instead of the traditional three years. She obtained the degree of juris doctor (cum laude) in January 1998. She passed the New York State Bar and was admitted to the New York State and Federal Courts.
After graduating from law school, Simone worked temporarily at the Queens County District Attorney’s office as a legal intern, in the Major Crimes Bureau and the Grand Jury Bureau, where she met her future husband, Robert Baker. After leaving the district attorney’s office, Simone was employed as a law clerk in the United States Bankruptcy Court in Manhattan, in the chambers of the Hon. Cornelius Blackshear, Federal District Court judge. From March 1998 to August 2000, after leaving the clerkship of the Bankruptcy Court, she worked at the law firm of Weil, Gotshal & Manges, L.L.P., the largest bankruptcy firm in the U.S. She was an associate in the Business Finance and Restructuring department. As an associate with Weil, Gothshal & Manges, she participated in all phases of bankruptcy litigation, advising corporate clients in general bankruptcy matters and cross-border and international insolvency proceedings. From Weil, Gotshal & Manges, she next moved to the law firm of Clifford Chance in Manhattan, as an associate in the banking and finance department, where she represented lenders, borrowers and other parties in complex, syndicated and bi-lateral financing transaction, including asset-based and commercial financial credits, leveraged buyouts and recapitalizations, debtor-in-possession loans, letters of credit and venture capital transactions.
As a result of her illness, she had to reduce her workload, and was working temporarily at the law firm of Cravatz, Swain and Moore.
Simone was able to pack a lifetime of achievements in a short lifespan, thus validating the hypothesis that life is not measured by the quantity of years one has lived, but by the quality of a person’s achievements.
She leaves to mourn a multitude of relatives and friends, including her father Colin Moore; her children, Deja and Noah; her sister, Tasha, and brother, Christopher; her aunt, Yvonne, and uncles, Ashton and Arlington; and her cousins, Margaret, Michael, Lenny, Brian and Anwar.
“The Lord hath given and the Lord hath taken away, blessed be the name of the Lord.”—Job 1:22.
Funeral Service for Simone will be held at Caribe Funeral Home Friday, Aug. 19, 2016. Viewing will take place from 4 p.m. to 7 p.m. and the service from 7 p.m. to 9 p.m.
There will be a repast at Tropical Paradise on Utica Avenue from 9 p.m. to midnight.
The internment will take place on Saturday, Aug. 20, 2016, at Saint Charles Cemetery on Long Island.
Please contact the Moore family with any questions at colin.moore@yahoo.com.
