Dorothy J. Moore
June 4, 1922 – November 9, 2021
Dorothy passed away Nov. 9, 2021, in Forest Grove, Oregon where she lived with her daughter Sharon (Moore) Atnip, son-in-law Ed Atnip and daughter Sue Moore.
Dorothy was born June 4, 1922, in Ontario, California, to Ernest and Fern (Cook)Fuller. In 1940 she graduated from Santa Paula High School. In 1942 she graduated from Ventura Junior College and in 1944 she graduated from the School of Education at USC in Los Angeles, California.
She took the train from California to Camp Shelby in Hattiesburg, Mississippi where her sweetheart Glenn Moore was stationed. They were married in the Army Chapel Dec. 18, 1944. Glenn was deployed to Germany and then the Aleutian Islands during World War II.
Dorothy returned to California where she taught first and second grades for two years in Compton while she waited for Glenn to come home. After World War II Dorothy and Glenn lived in Ontario, California for 10 years where she enjoyed being a homemaker, Cub Scouts den mother and Sunday school teacher at the Laird Community Church.
They moved to Othello, Washington with their four children in 1956. She was active in Othello Twirlers, Merry Makers Dance clubs, Campfire Girl leadership, PTA, First Presbyterian Church, Othello Gardenaires and The Buddy Andrews Orthopedic Guild.
Special interests during her life in Othello (besides her children) were her love for landscaping and gardening their yard (nicknamed Dorothy's miniature golf course). She loved going to Reichert's movie theater and would love to read in the evenings.
After moving to Oregon in 2011 to live with her daughter, she got to enjoy her special love of the Oregon coast with Sharon as her guide they spent endless hours there. She was introduced to video chatting with her cousin Jean in California which she enjoyed.
Dorothy leaves behind loving family members: her brother-in-law Marvin and family in California, her two sons Steve and Terry and daughter-in-law Shelly and her daughters Sharon and Sue. In addition to her children Dorothy will be missed by her eight grandchildren and her 11 great-grandchildren. Her husband Glenn passed away in 1983.
Dorothy loved life, loved to write notes, loved to send cards for birthdays, holidays and just to say hello to her family and friends. I (Sharon, daughter) will apologize now for not inheriting that love of writing to friends and family! I know we will all miss her notes.
The following is something that was near and dear to her heart and we wanted to share with you:
Be a Lamplighter
"Some people come into our lives and quickly go. Some stay for a while and leave footprints on our hearts, and we're never, ever the same.
"Sir Harry Lauder, the Scottish humorist and singer, loved to tell about an old lamplighter in the village where he lived as a boy. Each evening as dusk came, the old man would make his rounds with his ladder and his light. He would put the ladder against the lamppost, climb up and light the lamp, step back down, pick up the ladder and proceed to the next lamp.
"'After a while,' said Sir Harry, 'he would be down the street and out of sight. But I could always tell which way he had gone from the lamps he had lighted and the glow he left behind.'
"Life's highest tribute would be to live in such a way as to deserve the words, 'I could always tell which way he went by the light he left behind.'"
— Dr. Dale E. Turner, cited by Zig Ziglar in “Teaching by Parable”
Dorothy found this in a magazine in 1992 and shared it with 197 friends and family over the years. She lived her life always thinking of others – she left her light with each of us every day. We won't forget the light she left in ours.
On June 4, 2022, (Dorothy’s 100th birthday) at 3 p.m. we will have a gathering to say our farewells at the Beth Hampton Memorial Cemetery.