Sandra 'Sandi' M. Moody, 76
Sandra “Sandi” McNearney Moody was born in Sandpoint, Idaho, on June 17, 1946, with her twin brother, Sam McNearney, to Angeline and Charles McNearney.
She joined sisters Shirley (Kennedy) and Marilyn (Slette). She attended the local schools, graduating from Sandpoint High School in 1964. She married William “Bill” Moody on Christmas Eve, 1971, as they just celebrated their 51st wedding anniversary this Christmas.
Throughout her life, she truly enjoyed the people she encountered. Like a good majority of local kids, her first job was up at Schweitzer and then she worked for a time at the Idaho First National Bank. She later got a job at the Farmin Elementary School. She worked as the school lunch secretary and became everyone’s favorite lunch lady and second mom. When Walmart came to town, she took a job there and spent 17 years helping people and becoming the go-to person when you needed to find something. In the last five years she spent her time at the local Eagles cooking up Taco Tuesdays and Friday night dinners and helping as needed. She enjoyed each job she had and the people she met along the way.
In her spare time, you could catch her out having coffee with friends or sitting on her front porch enjoying all of her many cats. She was always up for a fun trip to the casino.
She passed peacefully at her home Dec. 28, 2022, after a brief, but hard-fought battle with cancer.
She is survived by her husband, Bill; her daughter, Stefanie, better known to all as “Ta,” with her husband, Ed Taylor, in Sandpoint; her daughter, Kris, and husband Mark Dobrilovic and her two grandsons, Luka, 19, and Dejan, 17, who live in Mission Viejo, Calif.; and her “adopted” son, Jeff Heath of Sandpoint. She is also survived by her sisters, Shirley (Cris) Kennedy of Hayden, Idaho, Marilyn Slette of Medford, Ore., and half-sister Glenda (Bryan) Poston of Bonners Ferry; a brother-in-Law, Lannie Moody, and sister-in-law Lorna McNearney; along with several generations of nieces and nephews.
She will be reunited with her Lord and Savior along with her parents, her twin brother, Sam, and we like to assume the countless cats and pets that she loved and adored.
Funeral services will be conducted at 10 a.m., Wednesday, Jan. 4, 2023, in Coffelt’s Funeral Chapel. Dale Coffelt will be officiating with burial in Pinecrest Memorial Park. A reception will follow the service, at the Sandpoint Eagles Lodge on John Hudon Lane.
Family and friends are invited to sign Sandra’s online guest book at www.coffeltfuneral.com.
Arrangements are under the care of Coffelt Funeral Service.