6 • The Southwest Portland Post
NEWS
July 2014
Terry Hofferber Moore devoted her life to improving public policy
OBITUARY
By Don Snedecor
The Southwest Portland Post
Terry Hofferber Moore spent her
life on all sides of the public policy
table, beginning as an activist to get
laws changed, or a staff position to
help change them, and completing
her career as an elected official to
finally vote to make positive changes
to people’s lives.
Moore died Friday, June 13, 2014
from heart failure and even in ICU this
past month was mentoring the young
residents to become involved and to
“carry the torch” to improve the lives
of people. She was 64.
Born on December 4, 1949 in Ann
Arbor, Michigan, Moore spent her
early years with her family in Montana
and Idaho, as her father worked for the
U.S. Forest Service.
Moore was injured in a tobogganing
accident in her freshman year at Carl-
ton College in Northfield, Minnesota
and was confined to a wheelchair for
the rest of her life. Shortly after the ac-
cident, Moore and her family relocated
to Portland, Oregon, to begin anew.
Settling in Portland, Moore became
an advocate for accessibility, advocat-
ing for sidewalk ramps on downtown
city streets, elevators in buildings, and
accessible buses and trains.
Her change in mobility did little to
slow her down as she completed her
last year at Portland’s Lewis and Clark
College in France, receiving her Bach-
elor of Arts degree. She then traveled
extensively in France while teaching
French and Spanish at Barlow High
School in Gresham from 1973 to 1976.
Moore began her political career as
administrative assistant for what was
then called the Office of Planning and
Development. Richard Hofland, a
retired city financial planner, remem-
bers having to carry her up and down
stairs to their office since the renamed
Portland Planning Bureau offices in
the 1970s had no elevator.
She moved to Albuquerque, New
Barbur Boulevard traffic
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direct and hopefully smooth out likely
bottlenecks.
“This would have been consider-
ably worse had nothing been done.
We would like to particularly thank
Louis Waldrip of PBOT and Shelly
Romero of ODOT for their quick work
addressing the traffic concerns.”
This road work comes right before
the 38 th annual Hillsdale Blueberry
Pancake Breakfast on Sun., July 27.
“We can’t pull off this breakfast
without lots of volunteers,” stated
Jo-Anna Dirk, owner of Salon Dirk.
“We almost didn’t have the breakfast
Mexico with her husband, Will Moore,
in 1982. Upon returning to Portland
two years later, heard that MAX light
rail cars would have steps and that
sidewalk lifts would be established
only at a few stops.
She testified at the TriMet board
advocating for accessible, state-of-the-
art European-style low floor cars and
helped establish these as the standard
for the future. She returned to her job
as secretary to the Portland Planning
Commission for another nine years.
Moore served as a Metro councilor
from 1992-1995, working closely with
citizens, business organizations, cities,
schools, special service districts, and
regional planning and transportation
staff to develop and adopt the Region
2040 Growth Concept, and led regional
affordable housing, transportation
capital projects, waste management,
and parks and trails acquisitions.
She was the citizen outreach coor-
dinator with the Portland Bureau of
Planning from 1995-1999 during the
contentious Southwest Community
Plan process.
In 1995 she was elected to the board
of directors of the Tualatin Hills Park
and Recreation District serving until
2003 and was elected chairman for the
last four years.
From 1989 to 2008 Moore was a
leader in the Raleigh Hills-Garden
Home Neighborhood Association,
working on the street design task force,
and the Oleson Road Reconstruction
Project PAC.
She and her husband most recently
have worked to put the “garden” into
Garden Home with tree and flower
plantings, hanging baskets, and street
median gardens as part of the Garden
Home Crossing Committee.
Moore is survived by her husband,
Will Moore of Portland, her mother
Dorothy of Beaverton, her sister Con-
nie of the San Juan Islands, Wash.,
and her nieces Megan Jones of Tal-
lahassee, Fla. and Kimberly Jones of
Moscow, Idaho. The family suggests
contributions be made to The Nature
Conservancy.
a few times in the past due to low
volunteer turnout.”
Dirk has volunteered to be the
delegate to Venture Portland, sole
provider of grants to Portland’s
neighborhood business districts.
This year, the owner of Cocina
Verde, Noe Garnica, offered to donate
his cooking equipment for the event.
Rick Seifert continues to donate his
time for the successful annual book
sale which is taking place at the Wa-
tershed Building.
“We raised $5000 last year for the
Hillsdale Foundation,” Seifert re-
ported.
Update at press time: According to
Jo-Anna Dirk, the “carmageddon”
that was predicted for June 20-24
never came for some reason. It ap-
peared that Barbur remained open
past Capitol Highway for part of the
weekend.
“Traffic flow could be affected dur-
ing the next closure and expects the
community’s patience,” Dirk said. “It
doesn’t hurt to be fully prepared.”
The project website www.barbur-
bridges.org will be updated regularly
with the latest information. For any
communication needs or questions,
please contact Susan Hanson, ODOT
Community Affairs, 503-731-3490,
Susan.C.Hanson@odot.state.or.us
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