San Joaquin County CA Obituary Project Obituaries.....Moore, Richard Raymond "Dick" January 12 2005
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The Record  January 21, 2005
Stockton
Richard  Raymond "Dick" Moore 
March 14, 1928 - January 12, 2005 


Richard "Dick" Raymond Moore, born in Iowa on March 14, 1928 to parents, 
Raymond and Marie Moore, left this world on January 12, 2005 after an illness 
hospitalized him and left his body too weak to recover. He died in the presence 
of family at St. Joseph's Hospital in Stockton. Dick grew up in Southern 
California after his parents moved their family there in 1934. He attended 
Rosemead schools and graduated from El Monte Union High in 1945, where he was 
active in outdoor sports, lettered in JV football, and was active in student 
government. He still had close ties with friends from high school. After 
high school, Dick attended Pasadena Junior College where he pledged Phi Alpha 
Sigma fraternity. He joined the Coast Guard in 1946 and served in the icy 
waters off Baltimore, MD, on the UCGC Violet. He returned to Southern 
California and completed his education at Woodbury College in Los Angeles, with 
a Bachelors degree in Business Administration in 1949. He then pursued a career 
in accounting. He moved from Pasadena to Stockton in 1962 after a colleague who 
had moved encouraged him to check out the area. Delta Savings and Loan employed 
him as a manager, and he moved his wife, Le Dean and baby daughter, Anna to 
Stockton. His son, David was born the following year. Dick became a Certified 
Public Accountant in 1972, earning his certificate while raising his family. 
After working in the banking industry, he worked in private practices for many 
years. He retired from the San Joaquin Housing Authority in 1994 as deputy 
director of finance, but continued serving the public through friends 
accounting firms on a seasonal basis in retirement. He was an active man who 
enjoyed the California lifestyle, which for him included tennis, snow skiing, 
water skiing, golf, bridge, and socializing. He enjoyed the activities, but he 
enjoyed the people he did them with even more. He enjoyed his family, being 
fiercely independent, the pleasure of others company, gardening camellias, 
roses, and tomatoes, a glass of wine, the newspaper, a really good hamburger, 
and the way the sun made him feel. He was a former member of Kiwanis, the STARS 
boat patrol, and a member of the Port Stockton Branch 46 of Sons in Retirement. 
He was a staunch Republican, loved even by Democrats. 
He surely accomplished his task of leaving the world a better place. For proof 
of that, one only has to look at his two children. His life was an inspiration, 
his memory a blessing. He lived well, laughed often, loved and was loved. He 
was a nice man, and in his world, nice mattered.
Survivors include his daughter, Anna Moore Knapp of Jacksonville, FL; two 
grandsons by her, Gavin and Ryan; son David Moore and his wife, Barbara of 
Stockton; one step-grandson by him, Colton Jackson; sister Myrna Moore Langley 
and her husband Robert; niece by her Andrea Langley Baker and great-niece 
Brittany Baker, all of Carmichael; favorite cousin Audrey Grundy and her 
husband William of Newport Beach. His life was celebrated with many others, too 
numerous to mention, but not forgotten by Dick's family.
Per his desire, no services will be held. 
 




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