LEWISTON – E. Elsie Taylor Moore, 84, formerly of Frye, died on March 4, at d’Youville Pavilion in Lewiston.

Elsie was born in Frye, on Oct. 24, 1923, the daughter of Charles and Evelyn Ordway Taylor. She attended school in Frye and was a 1941 graduate of Stephens High School in Rumford where she was a member of National Honor Society and Salutatorian of her class.

She spent summers working at the Parmachenee Club in northern Oxford County. After graduating in 1945, from the Maine General Hospital School of Nursing in Portland, she worked as a private duty nurse at Maine General Hospital and Rumford Community Hospital. She worked for several years in the 1960s as Town Clerk for the Town of Roxbury. She resumed working at the Rumford Community Hospital in 1967, where she was the supervisor of central supply until her retirement in 1973.

On Nov. 29, 1947, she was married to Wesley Vans Moore, originally from Prince Edward Island, and they made their home on the Taylor Farm in Frye. In the 1980s, the couple had a winter home in LaBelle, Fla. She moved to Turner after the death of her husband.

She was a member of the Roxbury Farm Bureau which became the Swift River Valley Extension, Pine Tree Gem and Mineral Club, and the First Baptist Church of Rumford, served as leader of the Roxbury 4-H Club and was assistant leader of a Junior Girl Scout Troop in Mexico. She enjoyed gardening, genealogy, needlework, collecting dolls, reading, letter writing, her grandchildren, her cats, visiting her aunts in Wilson Mills and Bryant Pond and her husband’s relatives on Prince Edward Island. Her proudest accomplishment was putting her four daughters through college.

She was dearly loved and will be greatly missed by three daughters, Charlene Moore Picard and husband, Roy, of Turner; Diane Taylor-Moore of Peru, Silvia Moore-Young and husband, Craig, of Turner; four grandchildren, William Picard of Lewiston, Aimee Picard Gibbs and husband, Jim, of Turner, Erin Young Mower and husband, Matthew, of Lewiston and Andrew Young of Turner; great-grandson Noah Gibbs of Turner; niece, Shelley Taylor-Fernandez of Los Angeles, Calif.; and nephews, Ray Hodsdon of South Berwick and Roscoe Hodsdon of Frye.

She was predeceased by her husband, Wesley; daughter, Katherine Moore; half sisters, Elsie Elizabeth Taylor, Alice Taylor Hodsdon and Elizabeth Taylor Hoyt; and half brother, Charles Taylor Jr.

The family would like to thank the staff of d’Youville Pavilion 3E in Lewiston and Androscoggin Home Health Care and Hospice for their caring attention.