Edytha Rodovsky Moon

Visitation at 2:00 pm and Memorial Service at 3:00 pm will be at Mt. Moriah, Newcomer & Freeman Funeral Home, 10507 Holmes Road, Kansas City, Missouri 64131, on Sunday, December, 15, 2019, in the main chapel (red brick building when you drive in). Interment will be at the Chapel of Hope at Mount Moriah Cemetery following the Memorial Service where both her parents’ remains reside. Memorial contributions may be made to The Raytown Emergency Assistance Program (REAP) or The Heifer Project in lieu of flowers.

Edytha Rodovsky Moon was born on August 6, 1932 in the capital city of Prague, Czechoslovakia. She spent her first 17 years of life in Czechoslovakia during World War II and Communist and Nazi occupation of the country. She completed high school and 1½ years of college in hat making. She wanted to go into drama, but she was not allowed to by her parents. Her family left early before their visit to America was scheduled due to her mother, an American citizen and daughter of Czech immigrants, being imprisoned to get information about her father’s work with the underground.

When she arrived in America, her family resided with her mother’s sister Georgiana Graham and her husband in Kansas City, Missouri. Her first job was at Chasnoff’s on the Plaza making hats which she did not like. Edytha had to learn to speak English and earned her American citizenship which she was very proud of. Edytha married and was an Air Force wife and traveled to Clovis, New Mexico; Phoenix, Arizona; Grand Heights AFB near Tokyo, Japan; Kansas City, MO; and San Antonio, TX. She divorced, moved back to Kansas City with her three children ages 13, 11 and 1 years old. With the help of her parents and her ex-husband’s parents she was able to raise her children in the South Kansas City area, and when the youngest started high school, moved to Raytown, MO. She attended church at Faith Presbyterian Church in Raytown, MO upon moving back to Kansas City. She was a Deacon, member of the Mariners and the Presbyterian women’s group, sang Alto in the church choir, and played bells in the bell choir. She worked for JC Nichols Company, Crimsco and then Amoco Oil Company where she had the position of Accounts Receivable Clerk. She retired from Amoco Oil Company just before they were taken over by British Petroleum (BP). While she was employed by Amoco, the branch closed down in Kansas City and moved to Des Moines, IA. Then the Des Moines branch closed and she moved to Tulsa, OK where she retired.

In Tulsa, she was a member of John Calvin Presbyterian Church where she was a Deacon and very active in the church, including bells and choir, and was known as the “cookie lady” because she would bring cookies every week to choir practice. Edytha was very talented. She learned how to sew in Czechoslovakia from their seamstress. Some of her many talents were sewing, needlework, crocheting, knitting, art and cooking. Our favorite memories are of the Lamb Cake she made every Easter, and the artwork she drew on real eggs from the bunny and chick pictures from the Golden Book called “The Egg Book”. She would always crochet a lamb for her friends that were having a baby. She made traditional Czech Christmas bread most every Christmas before she retired. Her other hobbies included putting jigsaw puzzles together, working crossword puzzles and playing triominoes and dominoes with her family and friends. She was an avid reader and her children marveled at how she always kept in touch with her friends and remembered their birthdays and anniversaries by writing and sending cards up until the time she entered the nursing home. She was a devout Christian and instilled those values in her children, who will be forever grateful for that.

Edytha was preceded in death by her father, Vladimir Rodovsky, mother, Edytha Octavec Rodovsky, brother Jan Huss Rodovsky and son-in-law, Leland Sharp, Jr. She is survived by her son, Rev. Mark Alan Moon (Linda), daughter, Linda Ann Sharp, son, Jeffrey Thomas Moon (Karen), grandchildren: Matthew (Andie), Jeremy, Holly, Michael, Dylan, Kelsey, and Hannah, and great grandchildren: Olivia and Brandon.

Her life was full of “storms”, but despite that, she was an inspiration to everyone. She will be truly missed by her family and all who knew her. Her life was an active service to Jesus Christ, our Lord and Savior. She is smiling down from heaven on us right now!