Jean Allan Moore

Jean Allan Moore

Jean Allan Moore, 88, passed peacefully to the Lord on Saturday April 19, 2014 with her family present. Jean was born to Maurice and Elsie Allan on January 13, 1926 in Cardiff, Wales. The youngest of three children, she had two siblings Peter Jenkins and Peggy Ellis. At the age of two her father moved his family to Ealing, a suburb of London. WWII broke out and night bombing of London forced the Allan family to evacuate Jean to the US. She sailed from Bristol, England to New York and was enrolled in St John Baptist boarding school in Mendham, New Jersey, run by Episcopal nuns. She graduated in 1943 and again crossed the U-boat infested Atlantic only to find London being bombarded by V-1 "flying bombs". She got a job in the US Office of Scientific Research and later the US Embassy in London. At the end of WWII, she met John Ellis whom she married at the age of 19. They immigrated to Toronto, Canada then to Seattle. Two children, Michael (1950) and Diane (1953) were born there. In Seattle, Jean became close friends with neighbors, Helen and Tim Moore. Unfortunately, Helen died giving birth to her only child, Leslie, in 1960. Jean, divorced two years earlier, married Tim in 1961, then legally adopted Leslie as her own child. We have remained a united one-family ever since.

Jean loved to travel, and while on holiday in Spain they purchased an apartment in Marbella on the edge of the Mediterranean Sea. Jean worked as a bookkeeper for James Crosby's on Mercer Island, then for MacDonald, Hoague and Bayless law firm in Seattle. On retirement, they moved from Mercer Island to Port Ludlow to play golf and relax. As Jean's health deteriorated Tim and Jean retreated to Edmonds and finally to Ida Culver House Broadview where Jean spent four years in full-time Dementia Care. She is survived by her husband of 53 years, Tim Moore, her children, Michael (Kathy) Ellis of Seattle, Diane Ellis of Edmonds, and Leslie Moore (Richard Bogar) of Mercer Island. Also, grandchildren, Brooks Ellis, Dane and Reid Ellis Sullivan, Bryce and Colin Bogar, great-grandchildren, Ethan Sullivan and Joanna Lynch.

A memorial service with Holy Communion is planned on Saturday, April 26, 2014, at 1:00PM at Emmanuel Episcopal Church, 4400 86th Ave SE, Mercer Island, followed by interment of the Ashes on the Church Grounds. In lieu of flowers the family suggests donations to the Community of St. John Baptist Capital Campaign, P.O. Box 240 Mendham New Jersey 07945 or the Alzheimer Foundation of America at http://www.alzfdn.org/.