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- Elisabeth Moore Walkinshaw, a pioneering resident of Douglas for 70 years until 2007, passed away Sept. 7 in Mesa, Ariz., at the age of 95.
Born in Lisbon, N.Y., on Sept. 10, 1914, one of nine children of James and Violet Moore, she graduated high school, the first in her family to do so, in Heuvelton, N.Y., completed her training as a registered nurse at Hepburn Hospital in Ogdensburg, N.Y., married her husband, Skirlo Walkinshaw, who preceded her in death in 1978, and relocated to establish their home "on the frontier" in Douglas in 1937.
After working full-time as an RN during Skirlo's U.S. Army Service in WWII, she retired from nursing to raise her family, sons David, now of Mesa, and Jonathan, who with his wife Susan lives in Oakville, Ontario, Canada.
She is also survived by her dear little brothers Harry and Clinton Moore and their families, and by her grandson Michael Walkinshaw and his wife Rachael of Portland, Ore.
She will be greatly missed as a great wife, mother, sister, and grandmother, nurse, friend, neighbor, devout Christian and loyal member with all her family of the Douglas United Methodist Church where she taught children's Sunday School and Vacation Bible School and served as den mother of her sons' Cub Scout pack. She is also remembered for attending and volunteering at hundreds of local community, church, library and school events with her sons and late husband who taught in the Douglas high school system for more than 30 years.
No local memorial services are scheduled. Her family suggests memorial gifts in her name be made to the Methodist Church in Douglas, or to The Hospice of the Valley, for her Arizona friends and family.
Rest in the eternal loving peace of Christ, Mother. We love you.
---Douglas Budget, Sept. 22, 2010
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