Jean Elizabeth Moore

Jean was born to John and Ann (Kilpatrick) Wilson, both Scottish immigrants, and raised in Los Angeles all her life with her sister Dorothy, born a year earlier than Jean. She would surprise people when they found out she was “100% Scottish”.

Active in school and church activities all her life, she met her Stan at Florence Avenue Presbyterian Church, and they dated after high school, long distance when he joined the army and served in the Korean War. During that time, she trained as a dental assistant, and upon his return from the war, they were married at Florence Avenue Presbyterian April 30, 1955. Jean continued her work at the dentist office, and Stan taught at Narbonne, while attending night school.
Three years later Bob was born, followed by Paul(1961), and John(1965). While raising the boys, Jean managed the apartments Stan had started building; fielding phone calls, taking in applications, collecting rents, even providing the occasional minor repair.

As both of them came from very small families, their friends became their extended family, as they shared raising children, having family dinners, skiing and traveling near and far with the Baccaros, Ranges, DeVitos, Larsens, Juengels, Kennepohls, and even the Pennsylvania Herman family. The Moores and Baccaros never missed their annual week in South Lake Tahoe, where they somehow managed to fit 4 adults, 3 boys and two girls in a two story, 2 bedroom, 1 bathroom 75 year old house. She was in the Dapplegray bowling league at PV Bowl for years, and kept many of those friendships even after the league ended. She treasured friendships with women she had known since Kindergarten!

Jean was a great cook, hosting ALL the family holidays and many dinner gatherings of friends. She annually provided a full American Thanksgiving meal at her home for the Rolling Hills Covenant Church outreach program for Japanese women here in the US for a short time. She loved to meet weekly with her bible study group at RHCC. She attended RHCC for over 54 years, serving in several ministries, and still gathered this year with a group of friends after the Sunday morning service to have coffee and donut holes, combining three of her top loves; friends, coffee, and sweets.

She was involved in the boys’ lives, welcomed 3 daughters-in-law, and would take her grandchildren on mini-golf, Chuck E Cheese trips, or put on plays with the puppet theatre at her house. She kept many of her sons’ original toys from the 60s, lovingly saved for the next generation, and she loved baking snickerdoodles when the grands came to stay. Her grands will be baking all her favorites for the reception after her celebration of life on July 2nd, 2024.

She was widowed in 2017, and suffered the loss of her middle son, Paul, from Parkinson’s, in 2021. Her legacy is carried on by sons Bob (& Megan), John (& Lori), and daughter-in-law Edie, grandchildren Casey, Tyler (& Jenna), Rachel (& Shaw Falco), Amanda, Matt (& Megan), Delanie, Cole, Melanie, and great-grandson Malachi.