Our beloved Mother, Grandmother, Aunt, and Friend, Murvelle Baker Moreman has passed on from this life to her internal life in heaven. On November 28th, 2017 Jesus took her by the hand and led her home, where many loved ones who went before her were waiting and celebrating her arrival. Murvelle was born on December 21st, 1933 in Pottsboro, TX to Earl and Mary Baker as an identical twin.

Her parents made their home in Texas where she grew up until the late 1930’s. In the early 1940’s during WWII, they moved to Richland, WA. Her father, Earl took a job at Hanford in efforts to help with the war. This is where she grew into the beautiful person that she became and was until the day she went to be with the lord. She attended Sacajawea Middle School and later graduated from Columbia High in 1951.  

She built her young adult life in Northern California; she had a son, Glen, in 1954 and a daughter, Mary, in 1962. Motherhood and family meant the world to her. Murvelle worked as a secretary, until the family moved in 1975 to Southern California for sunshine and the Pacific Ocean nearby. She worked at Mission Hills Realty as a secretary and Notary Republic. In the late 1970’s she was given an opportunity to work for the Institute for Shipboard Education, she took it and she loved it!  She worked alongside her twin sister, Ozelle, so that made her very happy.

In the 1980’s she made her way back to Richland, WA, but moved again in 1986 to Las Vegas, Nevada. She worked here doing data entry for a small company that made raincoats for the government. She was very versatile.

In the late 1980’s she moved back to Texas, where she worked for Laborers National Pension as a secretary. She loved being near her older sister, Lena, and all of her relatives in and around the Dallas area. However her heart was always in the Tri-Cities, WA so in 1991 she moved back and made this her home. Murvelle had decided she didn't want to move ever again. Here she worked her last job, at Fluor Hanford, until retiring in 2006.

She was a widow when she married the love of her life, Bob Moreman, in 2005. She was the happiest she'd been in her whole life. They enjoyed each other's company and had the same passion for dancing, being happy, and having fun. They loved crafting, painting, and creating handmade treasures.

She enjoyed making her infamous Christmas trees that are a treasure to all of those who have one, which there are many people who she gave them to. Her passion was bringing joy to others with these handmade or hand painted treasures. It filled her heart with joy and happiness to give them away. She was a woman of many talents: she sewed, she loved painting, ceramics, and she could do just about anything she set out to do.  She and Ozelle even had a small side business out of her garage, where they had the kiln and the whole nine yards to make their beautiful pieces of art.

The end years of her life were good; she lived with such a zest for life. She loved her family and friends and still loved going with their group of friends to the dances, parties and gatherings at the Eagles, The Senior Center, Community Center Anywhere they were having a shin dig, she was in!  She was independent and on the go until the very end.  She was loved by so many and is going to be greatly missed.

She is survived by her twin sister, Ozelle B Krukowski -Muskegon, Michigan, her son Glen (Diane) Hall - Richland, her daughter Mary Harrelson (Paul Stangeland) - Pasco, WA her grandsons: Eric Harrelson - Pasco, WA Casey (Ariella) Hall - Minnesota, Chris Hall - Pasco, WA Chad hall - Pasco, WA her only granddaughter Haley Harrelson (Nick Kinneberg) - Mission Viejo, California and 6 great grandchildren, numerous nieces and nephews, and great nieces and great nephews.

She is preceded in death by her parents Earl and Mary Baker, her siblings Raymond Baker, Eldon Baker, and Lena Crawford, and her dearly beloved late husband Bob Moreman.

A memorial and celebration of her life will be held Saturday December 16th at 2:00PM at Events at Sunset with a reception following. Friends and family will gather to share stories and honor her memory. 

Flowers are welcome, should you desire, contributions may be sent to Hospice.