Dr. DeMaurice Moses Jr. Passed Away at 93

Dr. DeMaurice Moses Jr., a physician whose medical career spanned military service and community care for underserved children, passed away peacefully at his summer home in Venice Beach, near Annapolis, Maryland, at the age of 93, according to an obituary published on Legacy.com by McGuire Funeral Service, Inc.

Known affectionately as “Bucky,” Dr. Moses was born on July 11, 1933, at Freedman’s Hospital. His life spanned nearly a century of monumental changes in American medicine and civil society, bridging decades of dedicated practice with deep roots in historic communities.

Educated at Yale University before earning his medical degree from Case Western Reserve University in 1959—the same year he married his first wife, Grace Louise Nash—Dr. Moses served as an Army physician. Following his military service, he founded the Hilltop Children’s Clinic in Tacoma, Washington. Operating with a mission to serve those who needed it most, the clinic provided free medical care to impoverished children of all races, eventually serving an enrollment of 4,000 children.

Upon retiring from active practice, Dr. Moses returned to the Venice and Highland Beach community where his family had spent summers since his childhood. There, he married Charlene Drew Jarvis, joining a lineage of community engagement that remained central to his life.

Those who passed away before Dr. Moses include his parents, his brother John Ridgley Moses, his first wife Grace, and his son Aubrey Stuart Moses. Surviving family members include his wife, Charlene Drew Jarvis; his sister, Merle Charlotte Bowse; his daughter, Belinda Susan Moses, alongside her husband, Mark Ray Mauren; in addition to his grandchildren, Isaac James Kastama, Anna Laura Kastama, Samuel Adam Moses, and Jakob Richard Moses. He also leaves behind two great-grandchildren, Carolina Grace and Alicia Lior Kastama; “bonus” grandchildren Ernest Drew Jarvis II, Jacob Drew Jarvis, Mason David West, and Collins Elizabeth Joyce West; and numerous nieces, nephews, and friends.

Services and commemorations reflect a life deeply anchored in family and public service. In lieu of flowers, the family has requested that donations be made to the Frederick Douglass Museum and Cultural Center in Highland Beach, Maryland, supporting a local institution dedicated to preserving the cultural history of the area.