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Palm Coast, Florida
Wednesday, August 19, 2009Funeral services for Iona “Nonnie” Moody, 78, of Palm Coast, a member of the Pioneer Family that settled Flagler County, will be held on Monday August 24 at 10: 00 AM in the First United Methodist Church of Bunnell, 205 N. Pine St. Bunnell. Burial will follow in Espanola Cemetery. The family will receive friends on Sunday, August 23 from 3:00 to 7:00 PM in the chapel of Craig-Flagler Palms Funeral Home, 511 Old Kings Road S. Flagler Beach.
Miss Moody, a lifelong resident of Central Florida, passed away on Tuesday August 18, 2009 in the Stuart F. Meyer Hospice House, Palm Coast. She was born in Bunnell, December 11, 1930 a daughter of the late Dewey D. and Murtice Richardson Moody. Miss Moody retired in 1992 as a pathology lab director for Lucerne Laboratory in Orlando and was a former real estate agent for Century 21-Coach Real Estate. She also was a member of the East Flagler Mosquito Control Commission Seat 2. A member of the First United Methodist Church of Bunnell, she also was a member of the National Association of Realtors, the American Society of Clinical Pathology, the Pilots Club of Orlando, the Flagler County Democratic Club, and the FSU Alumni Association.
Surviving are her first cousins, Marie Logan and Benny Black both of Bunnell, and Karen Tilton of San Mateo FL and many other family members and friends.
Arrangements are in the care and trust of Craig-Flagler Palms Funeral Home.
THE DAYTONA BEACH NEWS-JOURNAL
Daytona Beach, Florida
Friday, August 21, 2009
LONGTIME FLAGLER RESIDENT IONA MOODY, 78, DIED
by Kari Cobham, staff writer
BUNNELL- Iona Moody, a member of one of Flagler County's founding families, died Tuesday at Florida Hospital HospiceCare in Palm Coast of lung cancer. She was 78.
The Bunnell native was the first woman elected to the East Flagler Mosquito Control District in 1996 where she remained until the last election.
"She was a very sharp lady," said Ronya Johnson, Moody's cousin and the city's former city clerk.
Moody was a University of Florida graduate with a bachelor's degree in premedicine and English, and post-graduate work in microbiology.
She worked for 17 years as an Orlando clinical lab supervisor before her 1995 return to Bunnell.
Johnson recalled Moody riding a motorcycle to the Tennessee mountains and taking on white-water rapids.
"She really enjoyed life, and she lived it to the fullest," Johnson said.
Marie Moody Logan, Iona Moody's cousin and Johnson's mother, tagged along with her "happy-go-lucky" cousin and siblings around the county.
"We've got a lot of fond memories," said Logan, 70.
The Moody family has been influential in the county for decades, including the county's founding in 1917. It was named for millionaire railroad and hotel developer Henry Flagler at the urging of his friend, I. I. Moody, who led the delegation to Tallahassee that secured county status.
Iona Moody is survived by numerous relatives, including first cousins Johnson, Benny Black, Bunnell; Patsy Durrance, Flagler Beach; Karen Tilton, San Mateo; Barbara Stryker, DeLand; and second cousins Buddy West, Hilliard; Kathy Shotwell, Ocala; B.B. Moody, Flagler Beach and Carol Jean Atkinson, Bunnell.
The viewing is Sunday from 3 to 7 p.m. at the Craig Flagler Palms Funeral Home, 511 S. Old Kings Road in Flagler Beach.
Her funeral service will be Monday at 10 a.m. at First United Methodist Church of Bunnell, 205 N. Pine St.
