Sally Sachiko Moy

She escaped with her parents from the Soviet Army attack against Japanese-occupied Manchuria where she completed high school towards the end of WWII. Safe in Japan, she met Sgt. Thomas Moy during the U.S. Military occupation of Japan, which blossomed into a romance and marriage lasting 63 years. Marina, California became their home since 1969.

As the wife of a career soldier, she lived stateside and two overseas assignments. She learned the cultural arts and food of Panama and Japan.

Sally loved to garden and donated fruit and vegetables for at the Marina Senior Center, where she served food for the needy. She made doilies, loved dancing, prepared Chinese, Japanese, and American dishes, and traveled abroad.

Born Sachiko, she made a conscientious effort to anglicized her name becoming Sally Sachiko Moy to show her love of her adopted country. She worked in a small shop on Monterey Cannery Row before it’s reconstruction where she made covers for Fender amplifiers, sport car bras and convertible tops.

Sally was preceded in death by her husband, who passed in 2009. She is survived by her sons, Thomas, Wayne, John, and grandson, Jeffrey.