Mildred Jean MOORE

HARFIELD, Mildred Jean Veteran of World War II Retired Registered Nurse Peacefully on May 28, 2005, at the age of 91, in Ottawa. Jean was born August 13, 1913, in Cobourg, Ontario, the daughter of Harry Moore and Amelia Brown Moore. After nursing training in Toronto, she moved to New York City, where she was working when she joined the Royal Canadian Air Force as a nursing sister in 1941. While stationed at the Thursk airbase in York, England, she met RCAF officer Stanley Frederick Harfield, whom she married in 1945. She and Stanley lived mostly in Montreal and Vancouver after the war, and had two children, Bruce and Sherry. After retirement, they spent as much time as possible near the ocean, especially in Maui and Birch Bay, Washington. Stanley died in 2003, and Jean is survived by Bruce and Sherry, her daughter-in-law Penny Harfield and son-in-law Jack Kirchhoff, grandchildren Robert and Jason Firing, and Andrew, Tim and Jeanne Harfield, as well as her great-grandson Ruben Firing and several nieces and nephews in Vancouver. According to her instructions, there will be no formal memorial service. After cremation, her remains will be returned to Vancouver, where she will be interred with Stanley at First Memorial Gardens. Published in the Ottawa Citizen from 6/1/2005 - 6/2/2005