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Maimie (Jardine) Moore

Maimie Eliza Fay Jardine was born to Walter and Alice (Hastie) Jardine on 13 Sept. 1927, in Trochu, Alberta. Her parents had moved back to Canada that year in order to gain legal U.S. citizenship.

Maimie grew up in Coeur d’Alene, Idaho, and was active in Camp Fire and the Presbyterian Church. In 1943, along with other Coeur d’Alene High School students, Maimie attended Forest Service training to learn how to staff the fire lookout towers during the war. Maimie earned the highest grade in the class that spring and although too young to legally work, she was hired with her older sister, Thelma, to be seasonal lookouts for the duration of the war. They were the first non-married women to do so. She loved working for the Forest Service and was always sorry that she was forced to give it up to returning veterans because it was a “man’s job.”

Maimie was valedictorian of her graduating class at Coeur d’Alene High in 1945 and went on to graduate with a teaching degree from the University of Idaho in 1949.

In 1950, she married Dale R. Moore. They had four children; Jackie, William, Patrick and Dawn.

After returning from Alaska to the Twin Lakes, Idaho, area in retirement, she devoted herself to the creation of the North Kootenai Water District, giving untold hours to the effort and serving on the board for many years.

Her husband, Dale, passed away in 1988 and her son, Patrick, in 2001. She is survived by her remaining children, four grandchildren and 10 great-grandchildren.

Maimie will be interred in Forest Cemetery in Coeur d’Alene.