NORTHERN CALIFORNIA – Brenda Joy Moore of Corning died Sunday, November 23, 2014, at home surrounded by loved ones after a long struggle with breast cancer.

She was born in Bend, Ore., on March 5, 1940, to Frank and Vivian Ward.

She married her high school sweetheart Terrence L. Moore on Dec. 2, 1956. She and Terry moved to Corning in1987. Her home was always open to anyone who needed her.

She was a loving wife, mother, daughter, aunt, grandmother and friend. She was a waitress for many years and then a Realtor, where she sold a million dollars worth of real estate in one year!

She was a member of TOPS, Elk Creek High School Booster Club, the Red Cross, American Legion, Christian Foreign exchange student program and past president of the Middletown Cemetery Board.

She served as president of local TOPS 1711 for many years. She loved teapots. Anyone who had been to her home knew it. She had more than 1,000 of them.

She is survived by her mother, 101-year-old Vivian Ward of Redding; her daughter, Chonne Murphy of Elk Creek; sons, Ken Moore of Clovis and Kelly Moore of Rio Linda; eight grandchildren; 15 great-grandchildren; numerous nieces and nephews; and more friends than you could count.

Services are planned for 10 a.m. Saturday, Dec. 6, at the Neighborhood Full Gospel Church, 901 South St. in Corning.

She is to be interned with her loving husband at the Northern California Veterans Cemetery in Igo at a later date.

Please send flowers to the church (bright ones); she loved them so.