June Phillis Nalley Moody

June Phillis Nalley Moody, 87, of Little Rock, died just before dawn on Easter Sunday, April 8 - after a period of slowly declining health. Mrs. Moody was born June 2, 1924, to Eunice and Charles Blankenship in Brookings, Oregon. The family moved to Tensed, Idaho, where the four sisters grew up – June being the “tom boy”, who happily rode along with her dad in his logging truck. As a young woman June Blankenship helped the United States war effort during World War II by working as one of “Rosie’s Riveters”. After the war, she married a United States Navy man, Louis Nalley, and the couple lived and worked in California for a while before migrating back to Arkansas, which was home for Mr. Nalley. They raised two children and worked together in a successful real estate and mobile home business in Little Rock and Cabot for many years. She and Victor Moody were married at Thorncrown Chapel in Eureka Springs in 1998.
Mrs. Moody was a faithful Christian believer and long time member of Little Rock’s Rosedale Missionary Baptist Church and later Geyer Springs First Baptist Church, and she was a very active volunteer with the Rosedale Optimist Club. She enjoyed playing the ukulele and guitar and made many visits to area nursing homes as a member of her church's ukulele band. Mrs. Moody was also active in Little Rock garden clubs for many years. She possessed a keen interest in arts and crafts and has left behind beautiful mementos that will be treasured by family and friends. The young Nalley family enjoyed memorable trips to the northwest, both by car and by rail, and in her later years Mrs. Moody, along with her husband Victor, spent summers “back home” with her sisters, to whom she remained devoted.
Mrs. Moody is survived by her loving husband Victor Moody; daughter Phillis Neumann of Providence Village, TX; son Louis T. Nalley, Jr., and wife Margaret of Little Rock; nine grandchildren and fourteen great grandchildren; and by sisters Barbara “Punkie” Goodman and husband Steve of Spokane, Washington; and Violet “Sister” Claussen, also of Spokane. She was preceded in death by her oldest sister, Eunice "Teakie" Rodenbough.
Funeral services will be 2:00 p.m., Wednesday, April 11, 2012 at Roller-Drummond Funeral Home, 10900 Interstate 30, Little Rock, Arkansas 72209, (501) 455-5800. Interment will follow at Pinecrest Memorial Park.
Family will receive friends 6:00-8:00 p.m., Tuesday at the funeral home.
In lieu of flowers, memorials may be made to the Humane Society of Pulaski County, 14600 Colonel Glenn Road, Little Rock, AR 72210.