MOORE, Shirlee Jane

The White Mountain Independent, Show Low, Arizona ~ 05/02/2014 Shirlee Jane (Stewart) Moore In memory of Shirlee Jane (Stewart) Moore, 75, resident of Lakeside. Shirlee was born March 31, 1939, in Rockport, Mass., to Harold W. and Ruth (Johnson) Stewart. Shirlee graduated from high school in Rockport, attended the Miss Farmer Boston Cooking School and graduated in 1963 with a degree in nursing from Saint Petersburg College in Saint Petersburg, Fla. She also served in the U.S. Navy. In 1969, she married Robert Moore in Winterhaven, Calif., and they resided in Globe for many years, where she worked at Gila General Hospital as a registered nurse. Shirlee decided to change careers and in 1972 completed her B.S. degree in education at Grand Canyon College in Phoenix and the University of Arizona in Tucson (go Wildcats!) to get her degree in teaching. She taught seventh grade at the Rice School District in the San Carlos Apache Indian Reservation. Retiring to Lakeside, Bob and Shirlee shared a life together of extensive traveling all over North America in their motor home with their Australian shepherd, Patches. Shirlee was an active ham raido operator (KQ7Y) using Morris Code and voice communication to chat with radio club members all over the world. She loved craft work and was skilled in many needlework crafts, especially crocheting granny squares, needlepoint and bead work. She was an avid reader and was a member of the Mizpah Chapter No. 57 Order of the Eastern Star. She was preceded in death by her parents and husband Robert. Shirlee is survived by her sister, Betty Hamilton of Venice, Fla.; nephew Warren Price (Cindy) of North Chelmsford, Mass.; niece Vickee Pace (Jim) of Toronto, Ontario, Canada, and many friends in the Pinetop-Lakeside and Globe-Miami areas. Shirlee will be missed by all, especially Mai Tai, her Siamese cat. A memorial service will be held at 11 a.m. Saturday, May 17, at the White River Lodge #62 at 741 E. Whipple St. in Show Low. Shirlee requested that a contribution be made in her memory to the Humane Society of the White Mountains.