Roxie was born to Sallie (nee: Jessee) and James Wheeler on their farm near Rock, Kansas, August 14, 1909. She attended Green Valley School in rural Rock and went on to graduate from Central Commercial College in Winfield with a major in business.

She worked as secretary for Cities Service oil company in Winfield and would invite family members to the oil fields to watch drillers "bring in a gusher."1 Roxie worked until she and Harvey L. Moore married on February 11, 1940, in Rock.  Shortly thereafter, she and her new husband moved to rural Cambridge, Cowley County,2 where they farmed and produced Angus cattle and reared their only son, Harvey Lee, born in 1947.

After farming for many years, Roxie moved to nearby Burden in 1973 where she worked for some years at the Cowley County office of the Agricultural Stabilization and Conservation Service. She left in the mid-1970s to enjoy a long retirement living in Burden.

Roxie was a long time member of the Burden United Methodist Church and was an active agent in the home economics training organization, Home Demonstration Agents Association, the Cambridge Extension Home Unit. She was always a faithful 4-H supporter and otherwise occupied herself with gardening, sewing, was an enthusiastic cook and craftsperson.

"Harve," her husband, died in 1985 and she continued to live independently in Burden until moving to Riverview Manor in Oxford in 2003 where she celebrated her 100th birthday with friends and family a month before her passing on September 15, 2009.3

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NOTES:

1. Templeton, Elva V., phone conversation, Oct. 3, 2009. [ED: Sharon Moore wrote (2.) that Roxie was employed by "City Service" in Wichita prior to being married.]
2. Moore, Sharon B., email to R. Templeton, 15 May 2005.
3. Roxie A. Moore, Miles Funeral Service, Winfield, KS, 2009.