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Melodie Mooz, a 28-year resident of Pacific Palisades, died peacefully on September 20, succumbing to the metastatic melanoma that she had battled for over five years. She was 65.
Melodie was a true California girl, born in San Diego at one minute after midnight on January 1, 1943, becoming the city’s first baby of the year. She attended grammar school in San Diego, and graduated from Inglewood High in 1960.
A cheerful and gregarious person, Melodie made friends easily and brought neighborhoods together. She organized the first Arbramar block party in the early 1980s, an event that has continued annually to this day, and also organized the first block party on Santa Ynez Road.
Melodie was an avid and accomplished gardener who transformed yards into brilliant areas of vibrant color. Her passion in life was animals, and she worked tirelessly to find homes for abandoned dogs, filling several photo albums with pictures of the dogs that she had rescued. A fitness buff, she was a 10K runner and led aerobics classes for several years.
Melodie worked at The Rand Corporation, and ended her working career as an officer and corporate secretary of the Met-L-Chek Company in Santa Monica.
She is survived by her husband of 26 years, Bill; her daughter Savannah of Lake Forest; sister Georgia; brother Eric; and stepsons and step-grandsons.
“Throughout our lives together,” her husband said, “Melodie often said that she would live anywhere as long as it was close to the Pacific Ocean. From her birth in San Diego, to swimming with turtles in Maui, to her death here in Pacific Palisades, she had always been close to the water. According to her wishes, her ashes will scattered into the ocean that she loved.”
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