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In Memory of Dr. Austin R. Moody Sr. MD
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Obituary for Austin Randall Moody M.D.,Sr.
Austin Randall Moody M.D. passed away on Saturday, August 29, 2020 nine days after his 92nd birthday.
Dr. Moody was born on August 20, 1928 in Hattiesburg Mississippi to Captolia Hailes Moody and Edgar Angus Moody
He received his undergraduate degree at Ol’ Miss in Oxford Mississippi then served in the US Army and Air Force. He was stationed at Kelly Field in San Antonio where he met and married Thelma Ruth Gandy of Milano, Texas. They lived in Germany for the first seven years of their marriage. Austin spoke fluent German.
Austin told Thelma of his lifelong dream of becoming a physician and she encouraged him. The couple moved back from Europe to his home state of Mississippi, where Austin enrolled in the medical school of Mississippi State University.
Dr. Austin Moody graduated from medical school in 1961. Later that year he and Thelma, along with their three small children moved to Mason, Texas, a town that had no doctor.
In 1963 Dr. Moody married for a second time, to Dorothy Kothman of Mason. He practiced medicine in Victoria before moving to Port Aransas. He was the only doctor on the island for 17 years, making house calls for those who were sick or in pain. He rounded on patients at the hospital at Aransas Pass.
Dr. Moody and Dorothy also had a hotel, restaurant and bar at Port Aransas called Kody’s On The Beach.
In the late 1970s Dr. Moody became Chief of Staff at Desert Springs Memorial Hospital in Las Vegas, Nevada. He also ran a wound care clinic that provided hyperbaric chamber therapy.
At 87, Dr. Moody converted to the Catholic Faith at St. Ignatius Martyr Catholic Church, in Austin, Texas.
He was preceded in death by his wife Dorothy, his parents, a sister, Dorothy Fisher and a brother Angus Moody. He is survived by his son, Dr. Austin Randall Moody II and his wife Sharon of Kerrville, his daughter Cindy Jones and her husband Quinn of Mason, his son Barry Moody and his wife April of Austin, his stepson Jerry Kothman and his wife Kate of Mason.
Dr. Moody is also survived by ten grandchildren, Dr. Nicole Moody of Boston, Massachusetts and her husband Dan Banks, Danielle Moody of Kerrville, Miranda Rippy of Silt Colorado, Savannah Rippy Huebsch and her husband Steve of Basalt Colorado, Nick Rippy and his wife Jaleen of Spicewood, Texas, Beau Rippy of San Marcos, Paris Jones of Belton and Briggs Jones of Mason, Emeigh Carper and Sarah Hallmark of Austin. Dr. Moody has nine great grandchildren.
In lieu of flowers, donations can be made to:
St. Ignatius Martyr Catholic School
2309 Euclid Avenue
Austin, Texas 78704 -
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— 2 Corinthians 9:10-11
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