Vera was born in Fulton, California, to Charles and Louella Moor. She had one sister and two brothers. Her mother, father, and sister were taken by the flu epidemic in California in 1917. Vera was raised by her two brothers, Alan and Larry. She moved to Los Angeles and graduated from Inglewood High School, in California in 1931. She worked for the Broadway Department Store in Los Angeles. She met Red, a dashing young man, working in an ice cream factory. She told him when he got a real job with security and held it for six months she would marry him. He got a job as an electrical repairman with the Department of Water and Power in the City of Los Angeles. After six months they were married in Minden, Nevada on September 5, 1936. They remained happily one for 66 years.

Vera had worked as Game Management Director for the University of Southern California. She organized many football games and other sporting events in the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum and directed many Rose Bowl Games in Pasadena. She was a wizard. Vera and Red both retired in 1973. They lived in Newcastle, California near their extended family the Labrie’s. They had an adventurous nature. Early on, they pack-trained on horseback many times into the High Sierras of California, fishing and loving nature. Later, they bought a travel trailer and set out to see the USA. They drove the Al-Can Highway, twice, to Alaska and crossed the USA to Newfoundland, Maine; Florida; and across the south. Their hobby was meeting people and they met many. They always traveled with friends ‘Matey’, Gladys and later Blanche, the Giblin family. They loved fishing and they caught a bunch. They traveled in Scotland, Red’s birthplace. They loved their family and would tote their grandkids on many trips. They settled in Salem, Oregon 20 years ago and that became their home.