She was born December 29, 1923, in Idaho Falls, Idaho, to Mack Stalker Ellis and Mary Gertrude Lidy Ellis. She grew up on the Crooked Creek Ranch owned by her grandparents, Bob and Mary Lidy. She attended the one room school house near Warm Creek first through eighth grades. Her high school years were spent at O.E. Bell in Idaho Falls, Pocatello High School and finally graduating from Preston High School. She received her teaching certificate in Elementary Education at the Southern Branch in Pocatello. Her first teaching job was second grade in Shoshone, Idaho.

She married fighter pilot Dan Woodrow Moore on November 29th, 1944. He was tragically killed when his plane crashed in a storm on a routine flight close to the Black Hills of South Dakota in March of 1945.

She married Milburn Hawker Jr. on July 2, 1953, at the Community Baptist Church in Mud Lake. She taught many different grades at Terreton Elementary with the third being her favorite. She retired from teaching in 1991 after 30 years there.

She was a member of the Community Church of Mud Lake, the Women's Mission Society, the West Jefferson Senior Citizens, the West Jefferson Education Foundation and the "HATEMULEMO" club. She loved playing cards with the pinochle gang, fly fishing, camping, oil painting, arrowhead and rock hunting. She is survived by her husband, Milburn (Jay); daughters: Jann Moskovita (Joel), Jill (Wayne) Torgerson; son, Ben (Pam) Hawker; sister, Jean (Gerald) Thomas, seven grandchildren and seven great-grandchildren.

She was preceded in death by her first husband, her parents, two sons, a sister and three brothers.

Funeral services will be held at 1 p.m., Tuesday, December 18, 2007, at the Community Church of Mud Lake with Pastor Bryan Gomez officiating. The family will meet with friends 45 minutes prior to the service at the church. Burial will be in the Dubois Cemetery under the direction of Coltrin Mortuary. In lieu of flowers, donations can be made to the Mud Lake Community Church memorial fund for the wheelchair accessible project.

Condolences may be sent to the family at www.coltrinmortuary.com.