Elisabeth Jane Bode more commonly known as “Betty” was born on May 16, 1921 in Youngstown, the first born child of Oscar and Edna Juliaett Karr Bode. She spent her early life in Youngstown. When she was seven years old she moved with her parents to Kinsman, Ohio. She attended the Kinsman School System. Her life was quite serene until October 2, 1930 when Oscar and Edna had their second child. It was a boy and they named him John Oscar Bode. Then her life became a chore running errands for her mother in the care of little John. When John became older, he made Betty’s life miserable by doing little brother dumb stuff to her. One time when she was about fifteen, John chased her around the house when he had measles and contaminated her. His worst antics were when Betty was entertaining her boyfriends at our home. One prank was hiding behind the couch when all they wanted was to be alone. Betty was named Elizabeth after her paternal grandmother Elisabeth Hauck Bode. Her middle name, Jane, was after Elisabeth Jane Grundy Karr her maternal grandmother. Betty was busy with her school activities which included sports and she was always in the annual operetta with the school’s music teacher, Elsie Milne at the helm. When she graduated in May, 1939 from Kinsman High School, she had no great yearning to further her education. Some of her class mates went on to various colleges, but Bettty chose to go to Cosmetology School. She enrolled in a special school in Conneaut, Ohio that taught a full course in hair styling. The course took about two years and she lived in Conneaut and came home on weekends to be with family in Kinsman. She enjoyed roller skating and she and her girlfriends went to the roller rink at Cortland, Ohio about thirteen miles from Kinsman. It was a great place to meet other area kids and boys. She met Delbert C. Moore at this Cortland rink hall and they started to date. At that time Deb had graduated from Warren G. Harding High School and was working at the Copperweld Steel Co. in Warren. He made good money because he was a roller in the mill and their scale of pay was always good. They dated steady until they announced their marriage for May 16, 1941. Their first home was a new rental home fronting on Mahoning Avenue about three miles from the Copperweld plant. On May 22, 1942 their first child was born. They named the baby, Linda Ann Moore. Not too long after Linda was born, Deb and Betty built a new home at 375 Meadow- brook Drive in the southeastern part of Warren in a new development. The lot was a gift from Betty’s Aunt Jessie Mae Karr. Jessie inherited the lot from her father, John P. Karr who had acquired it during the late 1920s when he was land speculating before “The Great Depression.” All was going well for Betty and Deb. They were making good money and spending it as soon as they earned it. In late October 1942, World War II was escalating rapidly and more people were needed for the war mobilization so the draft of men into the Military Forces was started. At first they took only the single men, but it wasn’t long before they were taking married men. Then the draft officials decided more men were needed so they began to draft married men with children. Deb fell into this category. He was twenty two years old when he went into the Army in late 1942. He was taken to Cleveland and sworn into the US Army. He took his basic training at Camp Picket, Virginia. Then the Military decided to make Deb a Medic so they sent him to several specialized schools around the country for him to receive his training. Betty decided that she would follow him wherever he was ordered to go. Oscar and Edna did not approve of Betty’s decision, especially having a baby to care for. But trying to reason with a woman in love, well, you might as well save your breath. Some of the housing she lived in was terrible, but, it was a way for them to be together. Their future together was cloudy and dark as the war raged on. One of Deb’s last training schools was at Fort Benjamin Harrison near Indianapolis, Indiana. After Deb had completed his training, he was shipped to England where he was assigned to a Bomber squadron. He was with the Army’s Eighth Air Force his entire tour of duty and he never left England. As I look back on his military experience, I would have to say that he was one of the more fortunate boys because he was not in the Infantry. The only possible danger was being bombed by German planes. However, he had a terrible job to perform for the Air Force. He was assigned to the Medical Corps that met the Boeing B-17 Bombers after they returned to England from their bombing runs into France, The Netherlands and Germany. Hundreds of young men died from these raids and many more were injured. It was boys like Deb that met the damaged planes after they landed back in England. Deb had to attend to the dead and injured men flying those planes. Deb never talked much about his Air Force experiences. We later learned what they had to do by watching movies such as “Twelve O’clock High” and the “Memphis Belle” after the war was over. Deb’s stay in England was from 1943 to 1946. During absence in the Air Force overseas, Betty and Linda lived with Oscar and Edna Bode at their Kinsman house. As it turned out it was a godsend having Betty with us when Oscar had his crippling accident. Betty did a lot of the cooking and kept the home ship shape. This allowed Edna to work outside the home to bring in some needed income for the family to live on. John O. Bode worked the summer of 1944 in Warren at a greenhouse and that fall part time in a creamery after school. Betty helped Oscar learn to walk again. She coupled kindness with teasing to get the job done. He was bound and determined he would never walk again. Betty made sure that never happened. Deb returned home from England in 1946 and proceeded to adjust to civilian life quickly. I do not know why he did not want to go back to work at the Copperweld Steel mill. In those days they gave returning veterans priority in going back to their old jobs they held before they went into the service. Instead, he and his brother-in-law Steve Martin began a partnership in a gas station at the corner of Elm Road and High Street in Warren, Ohio. Steve was married to Deb’s sister, Margie Moore Martin. The station sold Sinclair gas. They had one set of pumps on High Street and two on Elm Road. There was no such thing as self service in those days. It was full service. They would run to the customer’s car and be told how much gas was wanted. The gas would be pumped on automatic. This enabled the attendant to wash the customer’s windshield and check their oil and the air in their tires. All done with a smile at a price of 19.9 cents per gallon if I remember correctly. They also carried TBA which stood for tires, batteries and accessories. Deb had a great personality and was honest with the customers. Because of this, they had a lot of repeat customers. Steve was all right but he could be a kidder and a smarty pants sometimes. Deb did not think that this was a proper way to treat customers. Because of Deb’s ambitions, he bought a home out on North River Road near the Copperweld in 1946. The home was large. It had an apartment up stairs and one downstairs and a small one over the garage. Betty and Deb lived in the upstairs apartment and rented the other two units. He had no problem renting them out because there was a housing shortage with many of the GI’s returning from the War. The Sinclair Gas station partnership broke up. Deb next took over a small Sunoco Gas station on his own at the northeast corner of High Street and Market Street. He was there for a short time until he decided to pick up a Station on the west side of Warren at the southwest corner of Summit Street and Parkman Road, also known as US Route 422. He preferred a station that had a high volume of gas. This location proved to be a lot of work for one operator so he eventually found a small station at a Elm Road and Paige Street. It was also a Sunoco station. By this time Betty and Deb had their second child, Ronald Allan Moore, born on August 8, 1947. Soon after this they bought a nice new home at 1789 Maplewood Road that terminated on the east at Genesee Avenue and Elm Road on the west side. This put Deb close to his Sunoco Station on Elm Road. For the next few years, Deb and Betty settled down to a quiet life of raising children and working hard to establish a business of their own. Betty had a sunny upbeat personality. She was also humorous and witty. She worked hard and was very energetic. Betty was a complete homemaker. Her whole life centered around caring for her husband, and her children. She made an excellent homemaker and cook. These two attributes she inherited from her mother, Edna Karr Bode. Unfortunately she also inherited Edna’s problem of having severe osteoarthritis in the knees. She also tended to be a little overweight just like her mother and she was about five foot five or six inches tall. Deb was a kind and soft-spoken gentleman. He about drove Oscar and Edna Bode crazy with his many vocation changes. They tended to be more conservative and felt he should tag on to a good job and stay put. Deb was too ambitious to follow that regimen. As a result of this attitude he changed jobs often and was always successful in every new job he took on. Eventually, he left the service station business and became an automotive parts salesman calling on service stations around the city of Warren. He worked for Automotive Inc. in their west side store on Market Street. He then went to work for Wilt Pontiac Inc. as parts manager for two years before his death. Deb was a big man. He was over six foot tall. His height helped him carry his weight well. Deb was neat and tidy in his appearance. This trait carried over to his automobiles and his home. For this reason, Betty and Deb were well suited for each other. They were both neat as a pin and their homes were always meticulously clean and in order. Betty and Deb loved the Lake Erie area of Ohio. They eventually bought a trailer in the Saybrook area and spent most of their summer weekends there with their children and guests. It was a fun place to be. After their children were older they took up the sport of golf. They enjoyed the game and both belonged to gender leagues and a league for couples. They became active in the First Presbyterian Church and Deb joined the Masons. Betty joined the Eastern Star. All just seemed to be going so well for Deb and Betty. They were both a little on the heavy side. Realizing this problem, Deb joined the YMCA and took up handball in order to get some exercise during the winter months. On January 27, 1965 after having dinner, Deb went to the “Y” to play handball. He suffered a Coronary Thrombosis on the court and died there in the gymnasium. DELBERT C. MOORE IS DEAD; WAS STRICKEN AT YMCA WARREN TRIBUNE CHRONICLE WARREN, OHIO: JANUARY 27, 1965 Delbert Moore 44, 1789 Maplewood NE was pronounced dead on arrival at Trumbull Memorial Hospital at 7:10 p.m. Wednesday after suffering a heart attack on the handball court of the Warren YMCA. Joseph Ross, executive secretary of the YMCA here, said Moore had just entered the handball court and was beginning to warm up when he suffered the attack. Mouth-to-mouth resuscitation was given Moore by Ron Harder, a YMCA physical education instructor, until city firemen arrived with oxygen. Funeral services for Mr. Moore will be held Saturday at 1:30 p.m. at the Robert’s Memorial Home. Friends may call at the funeral home Friday from 7 to 9 p.m., where Old Erie Lodge 3 F & AM will conduct services at 7. A life long resident here, he was parts manager at Wilt Pontiac Inc. for the past two years, and prior to that had managed an Automotive Inc. store on the west side. He formerly operated several service stations in the Warren area. He was a member of the First Presbyterian Church and the ushers team of the church and Old Erie Lodge. He was president of the Masonic Bowling League. He served with the Eighth Air Force in England during World War II. Survivors include his wife, Betty Bode Moore; a daughter, Mrs. Dale (Linda) Graber of Lorain; a son, Ronald at home; three sisters, Mrs. Mary Profera of Warren, Mrs. Nellie Morgan of Southington, Mrs. Margaret Martin of Champion; a brother, William of Cortland. Deb was laid to his final resting place at Pineview Memorial Park off Youngstown Road in southeast Warren near a large cemetery monument with the Twenty Third Psalms passage written in the stone. DELBERT C. MOORE’S DEATH CERTIFICATE INFORMATION PLACE OF DEATH WARREN, TRUMBULL COUNTY, OH. NAME OF HOSPITAL WARREN TRUMBULL MEMORIAL DATE OF DEATH JANUARY 27, 1965 HOME ADDRESS 1789 MAPLEWOOD NE WARREN, OH DATE OF BIRTH OCTOBER 7, 1920 FATHER’S NAME GLEN MOORE MOTHER’S NAME PEARL STITLE OCCUPATION PARTS MANAGER KIND OF BUSINESS WILT PONTIAC SOCIAL SECURITY NO. 287-18-0862 INFORMANT SIGNATURE MRS. BETTY MOORE CAUSE OF DEATH CORONARY THROMBOSIS BURIAL JANUARY 30, 1965 NAME OF CEMETERY PINEVIEW CEMETERY, WARREN, O. FUNERAL FIRM ROBERTS MEMORIAL HOME Our family was devastated by this sad and untimely death. Deb was taken when he was only forty four years old. I, John O. Bode loved him as a brother. Linda and Deb were close pals. It was fortunate that Linda, who was still in college at Bowling Green State in Ohio had just married a fine young man named Dale Graber so he was a great comfort to her during her grieving period. In the case of Ron, Deb’s son, things were different. Ron was seventeen and in great need of a father figure. Ron and his father were buddies and he had trouble with the abrupt loss of his father. Not too long later, Ronald joined the U.S. Air Force for several years. This move helped him during the crisis of losing his father. In essence, he grew up with the help of military life. Betty was totally dependent on Deb for anything relating to their business affairs. Deb enjoyed this part of home life and never even taught Betty how to reconcile the check book. It was a very tough period in her life. She lost the one she dearly loved in a sudden moment. She was on her own for the first time in her life. Although Betty was left with a home mortgage free and clear, She needed income so she went to work for General Motor’s Packard Electric Division. They had a huge plant located on the north side of Warren off North River Road. This was her first job since she was in the hair dressing business. In 1967, Betty married Deb’s first cousin, William C. Moore. They continued to live in the house that Deb built at 1789 Maplewood N. E. Through the years, Betty had increasing problems with her knees similar to her mother, Edna Bode. The affliction was Osteoarthritis. In about 1977, she had one knee joint replaced by an operation at the Cleveland Clinic. The operation was a success. In August 1979, She decided to have the other knee joint replaced. The operation was to be done at the Cleveland Clinic. The knee surgery took place on August 22, 1979. The operation was completed successfully, however, later on that night after the new knee joint was in place, she developed a huge blood clot that broke loose from her knee area and surged to her heart where it shut down her cardiac organ function long enough to stop the blood flow carrying oxygen to her brain. This event was not discovered immediately by hospital personnel She soon went into a coma and the Cleveland Clinic kept her alive on life support equipment. The seriousness of Betty’s situation was passed on to me on Friday August 24 and I immediately flew to Cleveland from Tulsa, Oklahoma and met the family at the Clinic that Friday evening. The whole family was on hand and her progress was followed hourly. By Sunday August 26, our family realized the Betty’s recovery was not to be. All life support was discontinued and on Monday evening at 7:00 p.m. August 27, 1979, Betty passed away peacefully. This was also a complete shock to our family because death was not anticipated. We all thought that the operation would be a success and she would go home and again have two good knees and this confounded pain that she lived with would be gone from her life. It was just not to be. ELISABETH JANE BODE MOORE OBITUARY 8//28/1979 WARREN TRIBUNE CHRONCILE WARREN, OHIO Mrs. William C. ( Elizabeth B. “Betty”) Moore, 58, 1789 Maplewood NE, died at 7 p.m. Monday, August 27, 1979 in the Cleveland Clinic. She was born on May 16, 1921, in Youngstown, the daughter of Oscar T. and Edna Karr Bode. Her first husband, Delbert C. Moore died Jan. 27, 1965. Mrs. Moore had resided here 40 years, coming from Kinsman and was a member of First Presbyterian Church and Morning Light Chapter Order of Eastern Star. Before retiring in 1976, she had worked for Packard Electric Division. Survivors include her husband, William C. Moore; two daughters, Mrs. Dale (Linda) Graber Lorain, Mrs. Michael (Jean) Cozzi of Bristolville; a son, Ronald A. of Logansport, Ind. and four grandchildren. Services will be held Thursday at 2 p.m. at the Robert H. Robert’s Memorial Home. Burial will be in Pineview Memorial Park. Friends may call at the funeral home from 7 to 9 p.m. ELIZABETH JANE (BETTY) BODE MOORE DIES AT CLEVELAND CLINIC PLACE OF DEATH CLEVELAND, OHIO DATE OF DEATH AUGUST 27, 1979 NAME OF HOSPITAL CLEVELAND CLINIC HOME ADDESS 1789 MAPLEWOOD NE DATE OF BIRTH MAY 16, 1921 DATE OF DEATH AUGUST 27, 1979 FATHER’ NAME OSCAR T. BODE MOTHER’ NAME EDNA KARR OCCUPATION RETIRED SOCIAL SECUITY NO. 291-16-1528 INFORMANT SIGNATURE WILLIAM C. MOORE CAUSE OF DEATH ANOXIC ENCEPHALOPATHY CONSEQUENCE CARDIORESPIRATORY ARREST Betty’s death was due to the absence of oxygen to the brain. The brain became inflamed because of lack of oxygen after the blood clot stopped the heart from operating. As a consequence, There was a sudden cessation of a heartbeat and cardiac function resulting in loss of effective circulation of blood in the body. Betty was laid to rest beside her first husband, Delbert C. Moore in Pineview Cemetery in Warren, Ohio beside a large monument that quotes the twenty third Psalms. DALE AND LINDA ANN MOORE GRABER Deb and Betty’s daughter, Linda Ann Moore as told previously, married Dale Alan Graber on February 1, 1964. He was a Cleveland fellow that she met at Bowling Green State University. Dale graduated one year before Linda and began his career as an Insurance adjuster. Linda graduated from Bowling Green, in about 1965, as an elementary school teacher and started teaching in the city of Lorain, Ohio. The Vietnam war was on during this time and the draft caught up with Dale in 1967. He was sent to Vietnam from November 1967 and was there until November 1968. Oscar Bode was staying with Betty Bode Moore in Warren at this same time. Several times he went to stay with Linda Moore Graber in Lorain while Dale was in Vietnam. Linda, today looks back on this period in her life as a most enjoyable time. He was lighthearted and fun. He enjoyed taking Linda out to eat a lot. On May 24, 1971, a son was born to Linda Moore and Dale Graber. They named him Robert Dale Graber. They nick-named him “Robbie.” RONALD AND SHERI ELDRIDGE MOORE After Ronnie’s father died his grief was heavy. It was a loss that he never quite reconciled with. After graducationg from Warren Harding High School in Warren, Ron worked for a short time at Wean Enigineering in Warren for a short oeriod of time. He attended Youngstown, University and took drafting courses. Ron then joined the United States Air Force. He was transferred around the country to basic training stations and advanced schooling in the specialty that he chose. He continued taking drafting courses while in the Air Force and for these efforts, he received his Associate Degree in Drafting while in the service. Ron spent some time at Wright Patterson AFB. He was also stationed at an Air Base in Peru, Indiana. It was while he was at this duty station that he met his future wife Sheri Eldridge. They were married on October 1, 1966, Ron was transferred to an Air Base in Hawaii and while there, his first child, Melissa was born on December 6, 1967. Dale Graber, Linda Moore Graber’s husband, stopped to visit with Ron and Sheri were in Hawaii as he was returning from Vietnam in October of 1968. Ron and Sheri’s children were as follows: NAME BORN MELISSA MOORE DECEMBER 6, 1967 ROBERT MOORE DECEMBER 1, 1970 KARI MOORE JUNE 28, 1976 Ron served one tour of duty or four years in the service. After his discharge he moved into the business of constructing single family homes. He and his family moved to Logansport, Indiana. He would build a lovely home, live in it for a while and then sell it. He would then begin the procedure all over again. He made a good living doing this for years. I am sure his drafting education was helpful in this vocation. He then got a job working for a company that had bought up a number of strip shopping centers. It was his job to visit these units spread over in Indiana, Michigan and Ohio and take care of their maintenance. He would determine work to be done and hire local workers to do the work. The pay was good but it did involve a lot of travel resulting in a lot of time being away from his family. It was discovered several years ago that Ron had heart problems. He had a heart attack when he was forty two. This seizure left his heart severely damaged. Ron never did regain his strength back after this attack. His condition became worse and eventually he lost his job. After a valiant effort for survival, he died in Logansport, Indiana on October 9, 1995. He is buried in a cemetery in Logansport, Indiana.