Michael Jon Moyle

Born December 5, 1936 to Warren and Emma Moyle, in Winburne, a small coal mining town in Clearfield County, Moyle graduated from Penn State, in Journalism, where he was editor of the college newspaper, the Daily Collegian.

Moyle began his professional career as a reporter for the Johnstown Tribune-Democrat before serving three years in the US Army in the Army Security Agency. He got his ASA training at Fort Devens, Massachusetts and spent two years, at the height of the Cold War, in the northern German town of Lubek where he formed lifelong friendships.

Following the army he continued his career as a newspaperman working as the sports editor of the Pottsville Republican and as a reporter in State College and Johnstown newspapers. He moved on to report for the Patriot and the Evening News and the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, becoming a Capitol correspondent in the Post-Gazette’s Harrisburg Bureau.

In 1966 he married his devoted wife and companion Vicki with whom he raised their son Alexander.

In the 60s and 70s Moyle worked at WITF-TV where he was the host, writer, and producer of the “Harrisburg Report”- a weekly news program. He also produced and was the on-camera host of “Movies BT”, a weekly television program which only screened movies produced in the years before television.

Moyle was on the scene reporting on dramatic moments in 20th Century Pennsylvania history. Among them were the Harrisburg race riots of 1969; the Harrisburg Seven trial in 1972, of antiwar activists charged with conspiring to kidnap then Secretary of State Henry Kissinger; and the Three Mile Island nuclear reactor accident.

His work for the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania began in 1982 as Press Secretary in the Department of Labor and Industry after which Moyle joined former Governor Dick Thornburgh’s Office as deputy press secretary and the governor’s spokesperson. He later became assistant press secretary and information officer for the Office of the Attorney General. Upon his retirement in 1996, he received a citation from the Commonwealth’s House of Representatives for his exemplary years of service.

In retirement he continued to write, read, travel, immerse himself in classical and jazz music, history, movie and sport trivia, while he enjoyed being a grandfather and enjoyed the fellowship he and his wife Vicki gained at the Cornerstone Coffeehouse in Camp Hill.

He is survived by his wife Vicki Moyle, son Alexander Moyle (m. Candida), and granddaughter Allegra Moyle who will miss him greatly.

A celebration of life will be held at a time to be determined by family and friends.

It’s very clear our love is here to stay.