Geoffrey W. Moore, a former computer programmer and linguist, died Friday from complications of cystic fibrosis at Gilchrist Hospice Care. The longtime Lake-Walker resident was 36.
Mr. Moore was born in Detroit and moved in 1976 with his family to the city's Lake-Walker neighborhood.
He attended Loyola High School and graduated in 1996 from Towson Catholic High School. He attended the University of Maryland, Baltimore County and the Johns Hopkins University.
Dr. G. William Moore, a pathologist with the Baltimore Veterans Affairs Maryland Health Care System, said his son had a talent for languages and was fluent in Japanese, German and Latin. He also was proficient in calculus and computer programming.
Mr. Moore, who had been diagnosed with cystic fibrosis when he was 2 years old, had worked as a restaurant retailer, computer serviceman and computer programmer with the Veterans Affairs Medical Center in Washington until about a decade ago.
"He was quite a long cystic fibrosis survivor," Dr. Moore said.
Mr. Moore was a lifelong communicant of the Episcopal Church of Christ the King in Woodlawn, where he had participated in the church's exchange program with Tokyo All Saints Church in Japan. During his trips to Japan, he had camped in the mountains and visited Tokyo Disneyland.
Mr. Moore, who lived with his parents, was a lifelong animal lover and owned and cared for two cats he had rescued, his father said.
"He was a loving family man and actively participated in family get-togethers," Dr. Moore said.
Graveside services will be held at 2 p.m. Thursday at Trinity Cemetery, 5500 O'Donnell St., Dundalk. Plans for an April memorial service were incomplete.
In addition to his father, Mr. Moore is survived by his mother, Barbara L. Moore; a brother, Vince Moore of Lake-Walker; his maternal grandparents, Dr. Raimond and Marilyn J. Struble of Raleigh, N.C.; and many aunts, uncles and cousins.