FARMINGTON — Beulah E. Moore, 96, of kingfield, died Aug. 2, at Franklin Memorial Hospital.

She was born April 20, 1915, in Kingfield, the daughter of Chester and Edna Riggs Atwood. She was educated in the schools of Kingfield and a graduate of Stanley High School, Class of 1933.

She married Leon Moore on March 22, 1937. She was employed for 50 years in local mills and shoe shops and later for Deer Farm Camps, Dr. Thompson and Dr. Dunlap. She obtained her EMT license and worked for Partridge Ambulance Service.

She was a member and past chief of Pythian Sisters, Fernwood Grange, Somerset Chapter 80 of the Eastern Star, Ruth Heald Cragin Chapter of the DAR, Carrabassett Rebekah Lodge 123, Pomona Grange, Coffin-Hewey–Safford American Legion Auxiliary 173, and Kingfield Historical Society.

Beulah was very civic minded. She helped the town of Kingfield by surveying lots and erecting plaques to identify the town cemetery names. She helped the libraries and the town with several genealogy projects and the schools with fundraising.

She was a 4-H leader for many years being honored for her cooking abilities. She braided batons for local school graduations since she was 14 years old. For all her extraordinary civic work, she received the Jefferson’s Award in 1986, given by the Maine Broadcasting System and the American Institute for Public Service. Throughout her life, Beulah gave countless hours in a great many homes caring for people with various illnesses, helping out in any way that she could.

She is survived by one daughter, Betsy Cole and husband, Daniel, of North New Portland; one grandson, Kim Moore and wife, Anne, of Freedom, N.H.; three granddaughters, Danette Cole of New Market, N.H., Cheryl Timberlake of Mt. Vernon and Deborah Wright of St. Petersburg, Fla.; three great-grandsons, Randell Moore of New Hampshire, Wayne Fetterhoff of New Hampshire, and Cody Fetterhoff of New Hampshire; three great-granddaughters, Samantha Wright of St. Petersburg, Fla., Erin Wright of St. Petersburg, Fla., and Melanie Moore of New Hampshire.