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September 24, 1950 June 9, 2024
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Arthur Reed Moody (Art) was born in Canyonville, Oregon on September 24, 1950, to parents Thelma and Wells Moody. At a very young age, Art’s family moved to Brookings, Oregon and settled on the beautiful Chetco River. He was the 4th of 5 sons born to Thelma and Wells, and grew up traipsing the woods with his brother, Albin, and childhood friend, Joel Bravo. Art learned to fish and hunt and pursued those hobbies with a lifelong passion.


He enlisted in the U.S. Army in 1968 and volunteered for two tours of duty in Vietnam. After his discharge, he returned to Brookings and was married to Edna Edwards in 1973. Art and Edna had a daughter, Racheal, who was the apple of her grandma Thelma’s eye – the only girl after a passle of boy! Art later moved to the Portland area and married Nancy Hall in 1979. They had two sons, Michael and Gregory, who were raised in Tillamook. Art worked as a service manager for the auto dealership and was there for 25 years. Around the year 2000, Art and Nancy moved to Thorne Bay, Alaska, where he managed a fishing lodge until 2011 when he medically retired.


In 2018, Art returned to his beloved Chetco River and partnered with Rita Dotson, who had known him as a teenager. They travelled, fished, hunted and pursued many adventures in their years together, and he embraced her family of kids, grandkids, sisters and their spouses as his own. The blended families and grandkids from both families will have memories to last a lifetime of their times on the Chetco River with him, swimming, snorkeling, fishing and exploring the beautiful mountain roads he loved so much.


In tribute to Art, Rita’s sister, Denise Knauer, writes, “How rare it is to be able to share space with a man such as Art Moody. It was a privilege just to breathe the same air as he. Art was a big man, larger than life. He was a man who touched, in some significant way, every person he ever met. His strengths were many and varied. His kindness and compassion were sincere, and he never turned down an opportunity to lend help and support to friends and strangers alike. And he loved his family. They were his heart. And he loved his country with the fierce love that only one who had been a defender of that country could claim. And he loved his Rita.”


Art is survived by his Rita and her family, and by his brother, Albin Moody and wife Fran, who Art considered a sister for more than 56 years; his children who were more precious than life: Racheal, Michael (Erin), Greg (Jessica), and 5 grandchildren: Ethan, Isabella, Alex, Makayla and Emmett; and by numerous lifelong friends who he considered family. He was preceded in death by his father, his beloved mother, and his brothers Bill, Lawrence and Roger.


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