Obituaries : Evelyn Moore; Retired Teacher and Nurse

Evelyn Moore, a retired teacher and Air Force nurse who had cared for the ill on three continents, died Saturday from pneumonia. She was 69.

Although a 28-year resident of Camarillo, Moore’s nursing skills had taken her to Japan, Hawaii and an Air Force base outside Frankfurt, Germany, where one of her patients was an ailing Saudi king.

But her globe-trotting eased off in the early 1960s, when as chief of obstetrics at an Air Force base in Colorado Springs, Moore met a fighter pilot, Roderick Moore, whom she married.

Evelyn, a swimmer and tennis player, took about six years off from nursing to stay at home with her two daughters.

In 1968, the Moores settled in Camarillo, where Evelyn began teaching and then working as a public health nurse and health services administrator at Moorpark Community College. Trusted and well-liked, Moore was sought out by many Moorpark students to discuss their medical concerns.

In her 50s, Moore found the willpower to quit smoking, a habit she had picked up as a teenager in her hometown of Johnstown, Penn.

Her skills and drive appear to have inspired her daughters, Lisa A. Dietrich-Moore, who is completing graduate work in Switzerland, and Dr. Marilyn Moore-Hoon, a biochemical researcher with the National Institutes of Health in Bethesda, Md.

A Mass will be held at St. Mary Magdalen Church on Wednesday at 2 p.m. Memorial donations may be made to the American Lung Assn. or the American Cancer Society. Funeral arrangements are under the direction of Pierce Brothers Griffin Mortuary in Camarillo.