This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Obituary Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/JW.2ADE/7953 Message Board Post: Daily Independent newspaper Ridgecrest CA Kern County April 14, 2005 GRACE MARIE MOORE 1902-2005 Longtime Keeler resident Grace Marie Moore passed away Saturday, April 9, 2005 at Sunnyside Gardens Assisted Living Home in Sunnyvale. She was six days short of her 103rd birthday. Graveside services will be held Friday April 15 at 2 pm at the Mt. Whitney Cemetery in Lone Pine. Following the service the Lone Pine VFW Post will host a birthday party in her honor. Mrs. Moore was born April 15, 1902 to Bruce V. Babb and Laura Mae Gibson Babb in Cass County, Ind. She was the eldest of five children followed by brothers Charles A. (deceased), Chester (deceased), and Melvin (deceased). Her younger sister Goldie Patterson of Galveston, Ind. left this world less than two weeks before she did. Her life was full and interesting after moving to California in December 1944, accompanied by her daughter Joanne to be closer to her son Harry J. Amos who was serving in the Navy at the Naval Ordnance Test Station, Inyokern. She progressed from a staid, prim lady to one who worked hard, but always enjoyed life. during her first decade in Long Pine she met Fred A. Moore (deceased) and married. They were active in the trail crew and camp for the US Forest Service. The Moores moved from Lone Pine to Keeler where they lived and worked for many years. After Fred passed away she kept busy by filling in at the Keeler Post Office and continued her lifelong hobby of quilting. In the past decade, she was known for "making lap robes for the old people" entirely by hand. After breaking her hip in late October 2004 she lived and received therapy at Southern Sierra Medical Center in Long Pine. Learning to walk again was another challenge to her and she was ready to return to a more active life at Sunnyside Gardens Assisted Living Home in Sunnyvale. This was close to her son Harry Amos and his wife June of Sunnyvale as well as her granddaughter Lisa K. Hunter of Cupertino. Her final months were spent making new friends and enjoying everything in her new home. She was a gallant little soul who will be dearly missed by family and friends near and far. She is survived by her daughter Joanne Camp, son and daughter-in-law Harry and June Amos of Sunnyvale, grandson Mark E. Camp and wife Esther of Ridgecrest, great-grandson Christopher Camp of Carver, Minn., grandsons Don and Douglas Amos, granddaughter Lisa K. Hunter of Cupertino, great-granddaughter Meredith M. Hunter of Gainesville, Fla., and a number of nieces and nephews and their children. Media information provided by the family.