Barbara Ann Moore

Barbara Ann “Babs” Moore, 96, of Big Spring, went to her eternal home Tuesday, February 25, 2025.   She lived a long and healthy life defined by family, friends and faith. She will lie in state from 8:00 AM until 9:00 PM, Friday, February 28, 2025 at Nalley-Pickle & Welch Funeral Home.  Funeral service will be held at 2:00 PM, Saturday, March 1, 2025, at First Baptist Church of Big Spring with interment to follow at Trinity Memorial Park.

Babs was born in Ranger on October 12, 1928 to Raymond (Shorty) and Grace Snyder. The family moved to Big Spring in 1942 when Shorty became manager of Woolworths on Main Street.

In high school Babs worked as a lifeguard at the city pool and played in the Steer band, graduating in the Class of 1945. After high school she attended Hardin-Simmons University and was featured in the Cowgirls marching band.

Babs returned to Big Spring to work in the insurance business and met Raymond A. Moore, a WWII vet who’d found work at Cosden refinery and settled in Big Spring. They married November 6, 1948 and were together 55 years, being faithful lifelong members of First Baptist Church. She had three children, a daughter Beverly Moore, a daughter Gayle, and a son Gary. She was active in Campers-on-Mission and Circle Six Ranch.

Later in life Babs married James Harlan Morgan on October 20, 2007. The couple were frequently seen on their matching riding lawnmowers cutting the church’s expansive lawns each week as a gift to the church.

Babs was outgoing, energetic and athletic, an avid water-skier and snow-skier into her 70’s. Her happiest times involved potluck dinners and board games with church friends and watching her children and grandchildren succeed along their lives’ adventures.

Babs was preceded in death by husbands Raymond Moore in 2003 and Harlan Morgan in 2023, daughter Beverly Moore in 1955, brothers Don Snyder of Abilene in 2022 and Jerry Snyder of Weatherford in 2023.

She is survived by her brother Dick Snyder and wife Pat of Midland, TX, children Gayle Abbott of Hobbs, NM and Gary Moore and wife Michelle of Big Spring, grandchildren Kyle Abbott and wife Sara of Seminole, Brent Moore and wife Amanda of Austin, Casey Moore of Big Spring, Skyler Moore of Austin, Avree Tubb of Euless, Jayden Tubb of Bedford, and great-grand-children Matthew and Meagen Abbott of Seminole and Tahja Marlee of Euless, and by Harlan’s daughters Carol Sledge of Houston and Janis King and husband Gary King of Midland, TX.

Arrangements are under the direction of Nalley-Pickle & Welch Funeral Home and Crematory. Online condolences can be made at www.npwelch.com

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