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::Hillcrest Memorial Park Cemetery--Bakersfield CA

Moore, Gibbons B.

Gibbons B. Moore June 15, 1915 - Mar. 24, 2006 Gibbons Birmingham 
Moore, Agronomist, U.S. Soil Conservation Service, retired; died 
peacefully on March 24, at age 91 in Sacramento, CA. He was born in 
Valliant, Oklahoma in 1915, served in the United States Navy during 
World War II, and graduated from Oklahoma A & M (OSU), studying 
Animal Husbandry. He married Fern Augusta Moyer in 1941, had three 
children, and farmed for a short time near Seminole, OK. In 1956 the 
family moved to California, where he joined the United States 
Department of Agriculture, Soil Conservation Service, working in the 
Madera, Visalia, and Bakersfield offices until his retirement in 
1983. He spent his final years experimenting with natural garden pest 
control methods. He is remembered for his love of animals and farming, 
his skill with a hunting rifle, and his earthy proverbs such 
as "the pig that squeals the loudest gets the slop," and "you don't 
get credit for not scratching if you don't itch." He was preceded in 
death by his wife in 1983. He is survived by his two sons, Bill Moore 
of Denver, Colorado, and David Moore of Tulsa, Oklahoma; his 
daughter, Melinda Rivasplata of Sacramento; a grandson; three grand- 
daughters; a great-granddaughter; and his sister, Martha Goubeaux of 
Santa Barbara, California. A memorial service will be held May 6, 
2006, 10:00 a.m., in the Hillcrest Memorial Park & Mortuary Chapel. 
Legacy.com

Published in the Bakersfield Californian on 4/2/2006.
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