Jack’s military training included Basic Training, NCO Leadership School, Officer’s Candidate School, Infantry Officer’s Basic Course, The Parachute School, The Quartermaster Officers Advanced Course, the Armed Forces Special Weapons Project, Parachute Packing Maintenance and Arial Delivery Course, The Quartermaster Subsistence School, and the US Army Command and General Staff College. While at the C&GSC he joined the Flying Club and obtained a license to fly a single engine aircraft. He received a BS in Military Science from the University of Omaha, Nebraska. He participated in a nuclear weapons test in Camp Desert Rock, Nevada.
After retirement, Jack attended graduate school at the University of Florida for two years, followed by a 15 year career as a Real Estate Broker. He had offices in Yankeetown, Inglis and Crystal River, Florida. During that time he was an elected Town Councilman, did a lot of fishing and sailed a 40 foot gaff-rigged ketch. He was a member of the Coast Guard Auxiliary and taught sailing and boating safety. For a brief while he was a blue crab fisherman and wrote a weekly satirical column for a small newspaper. He obtained an SEC license as a stock broker and worked for a while for a brokerage firm in Clearwater Florida. Having seen that business as an insider, he limited his investments to real estate. Twice, Jack was his own general contractor while building a new home.
After retiring to the mountains of Western North Carolina, Jack was a volunteer fireman in Warne, NC and drove the tanker truck. truckJ. He studied blacksmithing, welding, story telling, wood turning, and various computer courses including computer maintenance and repair. The products of his blacksmithing and wood turning from his home shop, in his words were nothing to write home about.
Jack was a golfer for more than 60 years. He made a hole in one five times, three at Seven rivers Golf and Country Club in Crystal River, Fl, One at Chatuge Shores golf Club in Hayesville, NC and one at Charwood Country Club in West Columbia, SC. He was a member of the American Contract Bridge League achieving the designation of Life Master. He was a Master Mason with dual membership in Florida and North Carolina lodges. He was a past secretary of Clay Lodge 301 in Hayesville, NC; a charter member of Orphans Lodge #761 in Oxford, NC and a 60 year member of Sanford Lodge #62, Sanford FL. He was an Ambassador of Morocco Shrine in Jacksonville, Fl and former Scribe if the Inglis Shrine Club. While in the service, he was a member of National Sojourners and was the Scribe for his Order of Heroes of 76. He was also a member of Post 6, American Legion in Columbia, SC.
Jack is survived by his wife, Joann Heath Moye. In the past ten years they have traveled to Germany, France, Denmark, Finland, Russia, Poland, Greece, Italy, Spain, Japan, China, England, Scotland, Ireland, Canada, Sweeden, Panama, Costa Rica, Korea, and have driven accross the United States twice.
He is also survived by his sons, Mike Moye of Riverview, Fl and Dan Moye of Los Angeles, CA, his daughter, Kathryn Moye of Duluth GA, stepdaughters Debra Hadden of Irmo, SC, Laura Castelberry of Gainesville, Ga, Jody McCombs of Daytona Beach, FL, Darcy McIntyre of Greensboro, NC, stepson Robert Heath of Largo,Fl., 14 grandchildren and 3 great grandchildren.
In lieu of flowers, donations may be made to Shiners’ Hospitals for Children via my latest website