Helen G. Moore

DEER RIVER — Helen Georgiana (Latham) Moore, age 101, died peacefully on Thursday, October 15, 2026, at the Samaritan Keep Nursing Home in Watertown, NY. Helen was born on Feb. 5, 1925, in Deer River, NY, to the late Leslie R. and Edith Austin Latham. 

There will be no public services. She will be laid to rest in the Swinburne Cemetery in Deer River, NY. 

She attended Lowville Academy and Central School through ninth grade and married Francis J. Moore on Jan. 4, 1946. The couple were married for 61 years, until Mr. Moore passed away in November 2007. Mrs. Moore worked several jobs throughout her life. Besides assisting her husband on the family farm, which they purchased in 1957, she babysat, made boxes at the Castorland Climax plant, and worked at the basket factory in Lowville. The Moore’s retired from farming and sold the farm in 1982. 

She is survived by her children, Penelope “Penny” A. (Jerry) LaBarge of Copenhagen and Jeffrey A. (Ann) Moore of Brownville; grandchildren, Rachel (Brad) Guyette, Michael LaBarge & Amy MacDonald; great-grandchildren, Brady (Abbi) Guyette, Kylie Guyette, Cody (Audi) LaBarge, and one great-great-grandchild, Brantley LaBarge.

She is predeceased by her parents, her husband, a daughter, the late Veronica Sue Brown, a grandson, Michael Jeffrey Moore, who passed at age 1, her sister, Virginia Latham Mahar, and a great-grandson, Collin Hess. 

Mrs. Moore enjoyed doing dot-to-dot puzzles and crafts. She was a former member of the American Legion Auxiliary Unit 789 in Carthage.

Arrangements are entrusted to Bezanilla-McGraw Funeral Home, located at 518 State Street, Carthage, NY 13619. Online condolences may be made at www.bezanillafh.com.