Lauran Lee Moore

Lauran Lee Moore of Wurtsboro, a retired maintenance worker and paramedic, and a lifelong resident of the Warwick and Chester communities, died Tuesday, Feb. 28, 2012, surrounded by his family. He was 74.

Son of the late Arthur Lee Brown and Emily Moore, he was born May 1937 in Goshen.

He was a Little League Coach, past commander of the Civil Air Patrol in Montgomery, and EMT and instructor for the Chester Volunteer Ambulance Corps. He played bass guitar for a local country and western band called the Country Kings. He was also a member of the Sussex Amateur Radio Club and a private pilot. He enjoyed working with his model remote control planes.

He began his work career as a carpenter working with his father, Art. He then worked at the Warwick School for Boys as a guard. He was hired as an orderly at Horton Hospital and quickly moved into the Emergency Room. He began riding the ambulance for the hospital and became a paramedic. He then went to work for Mobile Life as a paramedic until taking a job at St. Anthony's Hospital in Warwick in the maintenance department from which he retired after a stroke in 1998.

Survivors include his wife, Barbara E. Moore; sons, Kevin Moore and his wife, Dianne, of Chester, and Paul Moore and his wife, Karen, of Salem, Va.; sister, Maureen Kurpiel and her husband, Chet, of Florida, N.Y.; sister-in-law, Vicki Moore of Dunbar, Pa.; grandchildren, Jennifer, Christina, Rebecca, DJ, Mary Beth, Michael and Regina; great-grandchildren, Makensie and Rylan; and numerous nieces and nephews.

He was predeceased by his daughter, Terri Lee Desantis Mann and his brother, Bernard Moore.

Visitation will be Saturday, March 3, from 2 to 4 and 6 to 8 p.m. at Flynn Funeral and Memorial Centers, 3 Hudson St., Chester.

Private interment services will be held at Warwick Cemetery on Monday, March 5, in the family plot.