June I. Moore Kelley

My mother was a very caring person and always wanted to help others. She never thought of herself, but instead what

she could do for you. My mom grew up on a farm outside of Salem Oregon. She met my father during the war; my father was working in the paper mills in Salem at that time. My mother had always wanted to be a beautician, so she went to beauty school. After she graduated, my father added on to their home and built my mom a beauty shop, so she could have her own business and still be at home to raise me. My father left the paper mills and started a construction business building homes and re-modeling after the war. My mother would work alongside my father at times when she was not working in the beauty shop and as a child I was always with them either working or just playing at the job site in the dirt and usually getting into something I shouldn't have.

After many years as a beautician, my mom decided to hang it up and we moved to Portland. I was about 10 or 11 years old. My father had been working in Portland for some time and was coming home on the weekends because there was very little work in Salem. After moving to Portland, my mother could not sit still. She had to get back to work.

The one thing that always made her happy was working and being around other people. She got a job at a Kentucky Fried Chicken Restaurant and in a short time was made manager. She went on to manage a couple of different stores for them until they sold out and at that time my mother decided to leave. After that she went on to work a Payless Drug stores and then with Coremark- a supplier to many different stores which she had to travel around a little bit to set up store that was a job she loved. Mom loved to work. She worked on into her middle 70's and if my father had not gotten ill and needed her to care for him I don't think she would ever have quit.

Mom loved being around people and do whatever she could to help others. She also loved her grand children and great grand children. A number of years ago before mom was too sick, she would baby sit her great grandson (at that time just a baby) during the day a couple of days a week. That was the happiest I had seen her for some time since dad had passed. As a child growing up, we always had lots of family gatherings and lots of aunts, uncles and cousins around - That was the way mom liked it.

I know mom will be missed greatly - not only by her family and friends but also by all the people she touched in her life. Mom was one of a kind and the best Mom, Grandma, and Aunt that any of us could have had.

We love you Mom.

Arrangements under the direction of Skyline Memorial Gardens Funeral Home, Portland, OR. 503 296611