

Mrs. Cannon was born on August 19, 1942, to Dwight and Jean Moore in Modesto, CA, near her maternal grandmother’s home. She was the first child of four born to the Moore family. After graduating from Nevada Union High School in Grass Valley, CA, in 1960, she attended the Bible Institute of Los Angeles where she earned her bachelor in elementary education. Her first teaching position was on the Hualapai Indian Reservation in Peach Springs, AZ. She has taught elementary children in the Casa Grande area, Patterson, CA and Veneta, OR.
She was an outgoing, inspiring, caring daughter, wife, sister, and stepmother to her family. She left her family volumes of genealogical research from all branches of her immediate and extended family.
Her marriage to Joseph B. Cannon (widowed) in June 1975, lasted for 40 years.“Joe was an award winning journalist who was a reporter for The Casa Grande Dispatch in the mid ‘70’s”.
She is survived by sister Bonnie (Tom) Brackney, Rose Spicer, and predeceased by a brother, Bob Moore, three nieces and two nephews, two step daughters and their families, Cindy (Harold) Gibson and Sara (David) Vasquez.
Internment will be next to her beloved husband, Joseph, in his hometown of Garnett, Kansas.
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