- Date Of Birth: July 3, 1926
- Date Of Death: October 20, 2020
- State: Idaho
Kathryn J. (Katie) Moore, 94, died of natural causes at home on Oct. 20, 2020. She had made it abundantly clear that she did not want to die in a nursing home or hospital; she wanted to stay at home until the end.
Doing so was no small accomplishment. Katie was legally blind for most of her life and had lost much of her hearing over the past 20 years. After her husband’s death, she lived alone for 19 years. She managed to navigate through her home and find whatever she wanted because she had put it there during the 69 years she lived in the only house she and her husband bought together.
Katie was born to Robert H. Jones and Josephine M. Carpentier Jones in Williston, North Dakota on July 3, 1926. She was the youngest of the nine children who survived to adulthood. When she was still a toddler, the family moved to Butte, Montana. Katie considered Butte her hometown. As a youth, she enjoyed playing sports and especially liked swimming. She graduated from Butte High School in 1944. After high school, she worked at Uncle’s Jewelry Store in Butte.
It was there that she met her future husband. With his best friend, Dan Moore went into the jewelry store to buy a gift for his then girlfriend. Dan was stationed in Butte for part of his Navy ROTC training at the Montana School of Mines. After they left the store, Dan’s friend told him he should marry that girl. He did. On Aug. 24, 1946 Dan and Katie were married in Butte. They moved to Nampa, Idaho, where Dan’s family lived. After renting the basement of Dan’s parents’ house for five years, the couple bought the 1-acre property, with its house, on Greenhurst Road (then Rural Route 3). Children came and went, but Katie and Dan stayed put. There they reared their four children: daughters Gayle and Marsha, followed by sons Howard and David.
Katie is survived by two daughters, one son and daughter-in-law: Gayle Moore, Boise; Marsha Mondell, Brookston, Indiana; Howard Moore and wife Sue, Central Point, Oregon; five grandchildren: Suzanne Mondell-Cook and husband Tracey, Lakeside, California; Dustin Mondell and wife Marilda, New York City, New York; Serena Moore, Boise; Rachel Eliot and husband John, Central Point, Oregon; Daniel Moore, Medford, Oregon; five great-grandchildren: Clarisse, Aline and Joseph Mondell, New York City, New York; Macie and Addison Eliot, Central Point, Oregon; one sister-in-law: Dorothy Moore, Nampa; 12 nieces; 12 nephews; and a host of extended family members.
She was preceded in death by her husband, Dan Moore, in 2001; her son, David Moore, in 2011; her siblings: Robert (Bob) Jones; Margaret (Marg) Reuter and husband Clarence (Boy), Richard (Dick) Jones and wife Addie, Emmett Jones and wife Ruth, Joseph (Joe) Jones, Philip (Bronc) Jones, Glen Jones and wife Rene, Marion (Mick) Jones White Sheehy and husband Tom; four sisters who died in infancy or early childhood; the following brothers- and sisters-in law: Wendell and Irene Moore, Robert (Bob) and Betty Moore, Sam Moore, Shiela Moore Clark, Jay Clark and Ray Miller; four nieces; and four nephews.
