Annette Moore Garber

Santa Barbara CA - Annette Moore Garber, 93, formerly of Otto, North Carolina, died in Santa Barbara, California on August 26, 2011, where she had been living for the past three years to be near her daughter.

Born Fairy Annette Moore on Sept 19, 1917 in Rabun Co, Georgia, she was the first child of the late William Henry Moore and Delia Elizabeth Whitmire. After graduating with honors from high school and junior college at Rabun Gap Nachoochee School in Dillard, Georgia, she worked in food service management at the Federal Reserve Bank and the National Youth Adminstration in Georgia. While with the NYA, she became the first woman member of the Georgia National Guard. Her early career also included time at Bell Aircraft and then as a recruiting representative for the U.S. Civil Service Commission.

In 1945, she married Air Force Capt. Willis Roy Garber in Atlanta, Georgia. After the war, they moved to Sacramento, California where their daughter, Janice, was born. A successful businesswoman, she was active in the Sacramento community, serving in many church and civic organizations that drew frequent mention in the local newspapers. In 1962, she appeared as a guest on the Art Linkletter Show and thereafter became known nationally as the “Rose Lady”. In 1986, they retired to Bell Rd, Otto.

She was preceded in death by her husband of 59 years, two sisters, Margaret Picklesimer and Ella Donaldson and two brothers, Newton Moore and J.B. Moore. In addition to her daughter, son-in-law Paul Hanke of Warren, Vermont and grandson, Brian Hanke of Burbank, California, she is survived by a sister, Elizabeth Donaldson of Knoxville, Tennessee and two brothers, John Moore of Franklin, North Carolina, Bob Moore also of North Carolina and many nieces and nephews. A private burial is planned in Otto, NC.

Courtesy of Bryant-Grant Funeral Home.