MOORE, Ruth
Ruth Moore
1921-‐2025
June 10, 2025 Suddenly, but peacefully, Ruth Moore passed away in the NES Residence where she has lived for the last four years.
Ruth was born in 1921 on a farm in New Brunswick where she grew up. She was the oldest in a family of 4 girls and 3 boys. Thanks to support from a spinster aunt, she was able to further her education and went to Mount Allison University. She graduated in Chemistry in 1942.
WW II was on and she went to work at the Aluminum Company of Canada in the north woods of Quebec, in Arvida. When the war was over, the men came back and the women were fired. My mother moved to Ottawa to work as a chemist at the National Research Council. There, she met and married Bill Moore, an electrical engineer.
They had two daughters: Louise (Ottawa) and Marilyn (Waterloo). They lived in Manor Park. Bill Moore died in 2011, but Ruth continued to live in the family home until she was 100. After a fall down the stairs, she moved to the NES Residence in 2021.
At the NES, she found a caring and supportive environment that gave my mother another 4 years of life. She was 104 and 5 months when she died.
My sister and I would like to thank the many people at NES who supported our mother in her final years -‐ Brendan, Matias (and Karen before him), Cindy (she loved your food), Slobodan and Jamal, Liz and Rashmi, Fadime and France, Ashley and Mely, Cleophas and Delores, Melba, Dusanka and many more. Thank you to her dining room table mates – Wendy, Sandy and Liz – for always looking out for her. And also her physios – Amruta and Judy – who kept her exercising, despite her protests at times. And a very special thanks to Ann, who was with my mother at the end.
My mother’s wish was to leave this world from the Residence. She got her wish. She also did not want any funeral service or celebration of life (too old for that, she said). Her ashes will be buried alongside her husband in a small cemetery near the farm in New Brunswick where she grew up.
Anyone wishing to remember my mother, she was a long-‐time supporter of The Ottawa Mission and The Salvation Army.
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