Wendy Margaret Moseley

Wendy Margaret (Sale) Moseley was born on Nov. 5, 1931, in Northampton, England, where she grew up during World War II, helping in her father’s hardware shop.

After graduation from college with a degree in teaching, Wendy taught at the Northampton High School and Chelmsford Secondary Schools in Northampton, England.

In 1956, she married Robin Christopher Moseley, also from Northampton. Wendy and Robin had a daughter, Ann Elizabeth Moseley, and son, Simon Christopher Moseley, prior to immigrating to the United States in 1961. Wendy and Robin resided in Andover, Mass., where they welcomed a second daughter, Sarah Katherine (Moseley) Moerschel. In 1979, they moved to Allentown, Pennsylvania where they lived until Robin’s death in 2006. Wendy moved to Shepherdstown, West Virginia later that year and soon became an active member in the community and at Trinity Episcopal Church.

Wendy derived great joy from helping others and volunteering. In Andover, she worked as a teacher, Summer Camp Director, and Board Member for the YWCA. She volunteered as a Brownie and Junior Girl Scout leader, a church nursery school teacher, and an Altar Guild member. She tutored a young boy in her neighborhood who had cerebral palsy, teaching him to read and talk. Wendy served for over 15 years as a hospital chaplain at a busy trauma hospital in Allentown and as a Hospice volunteer. As a hospital chaplain, Wendy comforted families in the trauma bay and at times of severe illness or death. In Shepherdstown, Wendy was an active member of SAIL (Shepherdstown Area Independent Living). She helped develop SAIL’s volunteer program and in her later years she enjoyed social visits and assistance from SAIL members who volunteered to give her rides and help in her garden.

Wendy met Mother Teresa and visited Mother Teresa’s Children’s Home during a volunteer mission to Calcutta, India in 1988. She traveled with Mission Opportunities for Episcopalians and worked in sidewalk medical clinics, dressing patients’ wounds.

Wendy was always busy with creative endeavors and she was generous with her time, patiently teaching friends and family how to decorate Pysanky eggs and how to sew quilts. She loved giving away the things she made. She often made “I Spy” and Christmas quilts to be raffled off as fund raisers for SAIL and other organizations. In Shepherdstown, she was a member of the “Tuesday Group”, a local group of artisan crafters. With the quilters in that group, she helped piece together Shepherdstown’s 250th Anniversary quilt which hangs in Town Hall.

Wendy also enjoyed traveling: camping throughout Europe prior to her emigration, driving across the United States by car twice, embarking on numerous family vacations to Canada and Europe, one involving a two-week canoe trip in a chain of lakes in upper Canada in the 1960s with a single 16 foot canoe with Robin, Ann, and Simon. Wendy’s adventurous spirit was even more apparent when she and Robin took up sailing their 35-foot Island Packet just after Robin’s retirement. Both Robin and Wendy completed navigation and short-wave radio classes and learned to ocean sail in preparation for their multiple journeys from Maine to the Caribbean. On one trip to the Caribbean, they spent two months assisting a family in building a house on one of the Bahamian islands.

Wendy was a loving and proud mother and grandmother. She was known as Grannie, Grandma or Grannie Far Away by her grandchildren and great grandchildren, whom she treasured. She enjoyed spending time with each of them. When they were young she loved doing crafts with them, and teaching them to quilt, make Pysanky eggs, and cook. As they grew up, she loved hearing about how they were doing and their various accomplishments.

With family by her side, Wendy passed away peacefully in her sleep on Dec. 18, 2021.

Wendy is survived by her children, Ann Elizabeth Moseley, Simon Christopher Moseley, and Dr. Sarah Katherine (Moseley) Moerschel, their spouses Gary Clark, Cindy (Williams) Moseley, and Grant Moerschel respectively. Wendy had seven grandchildren: Cory, Skyler, and Ross Clark; Jennifer (Moseley) Hoyt and Ryan Moseley; Will and Hannah Moerschel. Wendy was also blessed with four great-grandchildren: Henry and Aurora Clark, Casey Hernandez, and Cecilia Hoyt.

Wendy was predeceased by her husband Robin Christopher Moseley and her sister Christine (Sale) Atree.

A memorial service will be held at 2:00 pm at Trinity Church in Shepherdstown on Sunday January 2, 2022.

In lieu of flowers, donations are requested to be sent to Hospice of the Panhandle (330 Hospice Lane, Kearneysville, WV 25430) under Wendy’s name.