George Benjamin Moock
Kentucky Post, Tuesday, 18 April 1939, page 1
Prominent Dairyman Succumbs at 68
Services will be held Thursday afternoon at the A C Dobbling Sons
funeral home, Ft Thomas, for Col. George B Moock, well known president and
manager of the
Hiland Dairy Co. Newport and Southgate. Burial will be in Evergreen
Cemetery, Southgate.
Co. Moock, 68, was a native of Campbell County. At the time of his death he was chairman of the Campbell County Courthouse Commission. Co. Moock's relatives said he had been in ill health since an operation in December.
He had been active in the dairy business since he was 13 years old, working under his father, Philip Moock, the founder. After the plant burned in 1919, it was rebuilt and the bottling plant located on E Fourth street Newport The Moock farm, near Southgate, is used for grazing cattle. The first pasteurized milk plant in Kentucky was established by Col. Moock at his dairy, according to reports. Col. Moock was a member of St Paul Evangelical Church, Newport, the Newport Lodge of Elks; Southgate Council; Junior Order; Campbell County Chamber of Commerce; Cincinnati Club; Cuvier Press Club; Highland Golf Club; Sons of German Pioneers of Newport and founder of the Indefinite Club which met on his farm.
The latter organization consisted chiefly of business and professional men and northern Kentucky newspapermen. At one time he was president of the Campbell County Agricultural Society. He was an active Republican and was named aide-de-camp by former Gov Flem D Sampson, who gave him the rank of colonel.
He leaves his widow, Mrs. Blanche Moock; three sisters, Misses Mary and Louise Moock, both of Southgate and Mrs. Sally Knuele, Denver Col.