Donald P. Moore; Created Furniture Polishes

Donald P. Moore, a 16-year Camarillo resident who created and sold his own brand of furniture polish, has died. He was 83.

Moore, who died at Pleasant Valley Hospital after a short illness, developed products including Brite Boy metal polish, said Ellen Moore, his wife of 47 years.

A native of Cincinnati, Ohio, Moore moved to Los Angeles with his parents when he was 5 years old.

After high school, he worked as an insurance salesman until the early 1960s, when he left to start his own business.

Moore then founded Olde Tyme Products, with headquarters in Studio City, where he created and sold furniture polishes, Ellen Moore said.

Through the years, Moore worked mostly by himself. He not only created the products but also sold them, said a daughter, Susan Moore of Reno.

“He was a salesman at heart,” she said.

In 1979, Moore sold the company and moved to Camarillo.

During his retirement, Moore continued his two life-long hobbies: black-and-white photography and sailing. At one point, he owned three sailing boats, Susan Moore said.

Besides his wife and daughter, Moore is survived by three other daughters, Janice Frame of Grand Junction, Colo., Karen Moore of Falls Church, Va., and Terry Smith of Palmdale; a son, Jerry Moore of Leona Valley, and two brothers and one sister.

Donations may be made in his memory to the Camarillo Church of Religious Science.

Conejo Mountain Memorial Park is handling the funeral arrangements.