Phillis Lorene Moothart (1912-2001) was an American author and teacher.
She was born on July 17, 1912 in Nebraska to Clarence Elmer Moothart and Mary Beryle Grimes Moothart. She w...view morePhillis Lorene Moothart (1912-2001) was an American author and teacher.
She was born on July 17, 1912 in Nebraska to Clarence Elmer Moothart and Mary Beryle Grimes Moothart. She was married to George Harlin Moothart (1914-2012), and the couple had three children, Mervin, Anita and Marian. She graduated with a Master of Arts degree from the University of Iowa, and her dissertation, An Analysis and Evaluation of Oral Reading Testing Materials, was published in 1942. She became a teacher and was the Director of Speech at the Toccoa Falls Institute (today Toccoa Falls College), a fully accredited Christian liberal arts college located in Toccoa, Georgia on the edge of the Piedmont region and in the foothills of the Blue Ridge Mountains. She later moved to Florida, where she passed away in 2001.
Moothart was the author of a number of books, including Heartbeat for the World: The Story of Gustave and Pauline Woerner (1999), Sunbursts: True Adventures of Toccoa Falls College Missionaries (1992) and Outstandingly His: The Story of Paul and Mary Williams (Uncle Paul and Aunt Mary) (1993).view less