Florence A. ‘Mira’ Moore

Florence Almira “Mira” Williamson

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• Birth: Mar 28 1893 - Pescadero, San Mateo, California, United States
• Death: Sep 24 1972 - Redwood City, San Mateo County, California, USA
• Death: Sep 26 1972 - San Francisco, California
• Parents: Josiah Calwell Williamson, Hattie Jennie Williamson (born Honsinger)
• Husband: Walter Harold Moore
• Children: Walter Ellsworth Moore, Gordon Earle Moore, Francis Allen Moore
• Siblings: Nellie Jessie Williamson, Franklin Williamson, Frank Grant Williamson, Ella Gladys Williamson, Hattie Williamson

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Married on Armistis Day 1924. Louise Moore & Frank Williamson and Walter Harold Moore and Myra Williamson: brother and sister married brother and sister.

References

• https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/4:1:26LN-CSJ
• florence_almira_williamson_1893_The_San_Francisco_Examiner_Tue__Sep_26__1972_
• Moore's law : the life of Gordon Moore, Silicon Valley's quiet revolutionary by Thackray, Arnold, 1939- (Publication date 2015) < Archive.Org >
  • Page 24. Mira Moore had her own unspoken sadness. She had lost her mother and her last surviving sister in the decade preceding her marriage and, once married, found herself caring for three males instead: husband Walter, young son Walt, and father Josiah. On learning that she was pregnant once more, Mira hoped for a daughter. Instead, her second child was another boy, Gordon. Her unsatisfied yearnings were expressed in his early years, as she dressed him in girl’s clothes for his first eighteen months. “Gordon made the cutest darn girl,” according to May Knapp Moore, cousin-in-law of Walter Harold. This response to young Gordon's arrival was memora- ble—one of the few elements of his early life that both Gordon and his wife, Betty, still mention—but while it became a lasting family story, made light of at times and somehow still puzzling after all these decades, what- ever lay at the root of this situation was not explored or dealt with.
  • Page 344 Mira, Gordon's mother, who had once yearned to have a daughter of her own, lived a quiet, solitary, occasionally lonely life in the years after her sons moved out of the little house on Westgate Street, in Redwood City. Page 345. She was cut off from her roots in Pescadero and traveled rarely, and only with Betty. Her husband had worked long hours until retirement, talked little, and disliked the theater and shows. Mira went to the movies alone. She also attended a local Protestant church alone, her habit since Gor- don’s childhood. In her late seventies she became increasingly “religious” and “spiritual.” Then, not long after the Hawaii holiday, Mira died quite suddenly.