Dorah "Leona" Moore

DORAH "LEONA" MOORE Funeral services for Dorah "Leona" Moore will be held at 2 p.m. at Ertel Memorial Chapel in Cortez, Colo. on Monday, April 2. Interment will follow at Cortez Cemetery. Miss Moore passed away early Sunday morning, March 25, 2012 at her home in Cheyenne, Wyo. She was 74. Born in Zafra, Okla. on March 5, 1938, to John H. and Exie Arminda (Nichols) Moore, she is survived by her brother and sister-in-law, Elmer Lee and Faith Moore of Vista, Calif.; nieces and nephews, Ellen Mills of Brenham, Texas, Wendell Smalling of Hugo, Okla., Grady Smalling of Springfield, Mo., Deriel Moore of Hatfield, Ark., Linda Petersen of Waco, Texas, Julee Jaeb of Vista, Calif., John Moore of Dove Creek, Colo., Debbie Baxmann of Mission, British Columbia, Canada and Daniel Leonard of Belton, Texas. She is also survived by many great and great-great nieces and nephews. Miss Moore was preceded in death by her parents; a brother, D.W. Moore; and two sisters, Inez Smalling and Wilma Leonard. She graduated from Cortez High School in top 15% of her class in May of 1956 and completed her degree in elementary education at Southeastern State College in Durant, Oklahoma in 1960. Miss Moore taught for 4 years in the Cortez Public School system from 1962 to 1966 and then 25 years in Lawton, Okla., where she retired in 1991. An avid traveler, she toured the world with friends and family to many destinations in Europe, Japan and Hawaii. Her most prized possession was the Fuji stick she earned climbing Mt. Fuji in Japan in 1987 with one of her nieces. Miss Moore moved to Cheyenne, Wyo. in 2007, where she lived with her sister and made many cherished friends at Faith Baptist Church where a service will be held next week. Pastor Miller has requested that in lieu of flowers at this memorial service, contributions may be made to the Heart and Stroke Foundation.