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Some members don't seem to like obituaries.  I find them interesting, especially as it relates to club history.  The WBCCI.org/forum is in a perpetual log-in mode (for me) so here's a post I'd put there, if I could only get in.   

Laurence & Bonnie Lee Moore can be found in the 1968 WBCCI Member Directory.

"Tribute: Laurence Everett Moore was a lifelong caregiver
By SARA SHEPHERD
The Kansas City Star

A celebration of Laurence Everett Moore’s life will be from
1 to 3 p.m. April 13 at Lenexa’s Lakeview Village.

Who: Laurence Everett Moore, 99, of Lenexa.

When and how he died: Moore died in his sleep March 9. A 100th birthday party planned for 1 to 3 p.m. April 13 at Lakeview Village, 9100 Park St. in Lenexa, has been changed into a celebration of his life.

Lifelong caregiver: Family members described Moore as honest, conscientious and dependable. One of his best qualities, being a caregiver, was exemplified in the way he treated his wives — all three of whom he outlived.

Mary Elizabeth Cordner: Moore dated his first wife, Mary, for nine years. They fell in love during the Depression and simply didn’t have enough money to get married sooner, said Moore’s daughter, Judy Harries.

Moore was working for his father’s coal yard in Kansas City, Kan., and planned to become an accountant. But he opted to become a letter carrier when his father pointed out that “if you get a job with the post office, you’ll always have a job,” Harries said.

For years, Moore left home before daylight, walked his mail route and took a short nap when he got home.

Moore led the family on summer road trips to almost all the continental states, son Duane Moore said. When his father bought a lot at Lake of the Ozarks and built a cabin, the family spent much of their summers there — with Moore always at the helm of the boat.

Mary battled cancer for 10 years before she died in 1961. Harries said her father, though worried, was always optimistic. “It hit him, of course, terribly hard.”

Bonnie Lee Clancy Nance: Not long after his first wife died, Moore asked Harries if she thought it would be OK for him to begin a new relationship.

“My first idea was to say, ‘Of course, you can’t date somebody,’ ” Harries said. “But I said, ‘Of course you can.’ ” Moore married Bonnie — a widow who was a member of the same church and shared similar interests — in 1964, and they went on to share a “wonderful life together,” Harries said.

Bonnie opened a whole new world to Moore, who retired a few years after marrying her, Duane Moore said. “She had the money to travel, and he had the time to do it.”

The two bought an Airstream trailer and took it all over the country and even to Mexico.

Bonnie’s health wasn’t as good as Moore’s, but he helped her in any way he could, stepson David Nance said. For one, she liked to plant but struggled with digging. “He would take care of the digging,” Nance said. “Down deep, I’m not sure he really cared that much, but she did. He would just do things for her.”

Before Bonnie died in 1995, Moore sat at her bedside at Lakeview Village every day. He brought a rose from his apartment at the retirement community each day as long as they were blooming.

Sylvia Gatewood Meir: About six months after his second wife died, Moore again came to his daughter. He asked if she thought it would be OK to invite Sylvia, also a resident of Lakeview Village, to sit with him at meals.

“I thought, ‘Well, Daddy, you don’t really have much time left,’ ” Harries said, then told him, “Sure. Go for it.”

Moore’s romance with Sylvia was “off and on,” not unlike a high school love, Harries said. Finally, in 1997, the couple eloped to Kansas City, Kan., where they had arranged for a minister to marry them.

Harries said she thought her father and Sylvia had married to take care of one another, which they did until she died in 2001.

Survivors include: A daughter, a son, a stepson, a granddaughter, four step-grandchildren and three step-great-grandchildren.

The last word: After Sylvia died, Moore continued to push fellow residents’ wheelchairs to weekly church services. “He just liked to take care of people,” Harries said."

The original story can be found at:

http://www.kansascity.com/115/story/533266.html