This memorial website was created in memory of our loved one, Annalee Moyer, 37, born on January 26, 1981 and passed away on February 3, 2018. We will remember her forever.
 

Annalee was born in Cottonwood, Arizona, the only daughter of Phillip & Marciana Moyer.  She was a loving soul to family and friends, strangers and stray animals. Her dog, "Faithy" was an adored special friend. The sudden loss of this most beautiful person is truely unfathonable for those of us fortunate enough to have known her.

Annalee grew up in nearby Cornville along its Oak Creek waters which fed cottonwood trees and a boundaful garden at her home on Pear Tree Ln. She was dedicated by her parents to Jesus Christ as a baby and later as a teenager she chose to be Baptized in the waters of Oak Creek. She was blessed with surrogate siblings - Josh and Rachel Sutter, who lived next door. The threesom loved the out-of-doors and shared a childhood of fond memories. Every game and western adventure they could dream up was all encompassed around a big pile of dirt and rocks. From her mother, Annalee learned to swim at age 2 and to love and enjoy a lifetime of reading.  Annalee was the most beautiful person inside and out. Her passions and interests where wide. In her later life she just wanted to help the disadvantaged and was always giving her money to the homeless and needy people she ran into every day. She was a thrill seeker and speed fanatic thanks mainly to her father. She took her first solo flight on an airplane to Calif. to visit her Grams when she was only five years old. Growing up was spent doing all the things she loved like fishing, boating, swimming in Oak Creek, sports, gardening, reading books and swinging from the old cottonwood tree over the irrigation ditch at their home. Her family held a tight bond and they loved spending time together. They  also spent many summer vacations in San Carlos Mexico visiting Marciana’s mother Kathryn Haynes and Grampa Gene who was an artist. While there, Annalee developed an empathy and appreciation for the Mexican people, their culture and language. Annalee was a daddy’s girl, through and through, and she and her father relished their special times together. She always said she and her dad were like “two peas in a pod”. Written in her last birthday card to him, she said "she was a little weird” and thanked him for that attribute.  He flew with her to Barcelona Spain where she was to be a nanny for one year. As he tells the story: “ I went around the world in 7 days just to make sure there were (real) people over there and I’d know she was safe. For Phillip and Marciana,  Annalee was the “why” in their lives. They had many wonderful vacations to the White Mountains, Lake Powell camping, Lee’s Ferry fishing and road trips to California to visit Annalee’s Great Grams Anna Christian, and her Grandmother Eleanore Moyer at Eleanor’s Lone Palm Ranch in Lake Elsinore. One late afternoon dad and daughter decided to go snake hunting in the arid hills surrounding the ranch. Coming back disappointed and empty handed to the cabin about dark, they looked down and in the front yard just lying on the ground in front of them was a beautiful 3 ft. long rosy boa. She named it Rosy. Annalee loved spending time with her grandmother M’Kathryn in Clarkdale making cookies and having tea parties, and getting painting lessons from grandpa Gene. She treasured attending 4th of July pick nicks and Thanks Giving dinners, and catching up with her cousins - family and friends at her Aunt Faye and Uncle Sonny’s house in Askfork. As a three year old, Annalee rode her first horse and by fourteen she was competing and winning dressage events on Shere Kahn, her own 16 hand English jumper. She worked as a teenager as a caregiver, waitress and horse wrangler at El Rojo Grande Ranch in Sedona. After graduation from Mingus Union H.S. in Cottonwood, she entered the University of Arizona in Tucson. She graduated in three years with a BA degree in International Business and Spanish. As part of her college experience she worked as an Intern at K2 Corporation, the winter sports equipment manufacturer near Seattle, Washington.  Following college, Annalee traveled in Australia, New Zealand and Europe. She spent a year as an au pair with a professional family in Barcelona. Here she was able to learn Catalan in addition to gaining fluency in Spanish. Her attatchemnent to Spain we attribute to her mother's Basque heritage. Home after Spain for Annalee was Portland, Oregon where she lived and worked in the food industry for more than a decade at the following; (in order) Seattle Tennis Club, The University Club of Portland, SSP America/Laurelwood, Papa Hayden and for her last three years at Verde Cocina. In her spare time she loved walking her doggie Faith, doing yoga, cooking, reading and writing (she wanted to be a published writer). She loved a good massage when she could afford it. She also enjoyed hiking, snowboarding, fishing and camping with her boyfriend Nick Sabo. Nick said when they where at the top of the snowy slopes of Mt. Hood she’d always say “catch me if you can” - then jumped out first. He said she was really good at snowboarding. Over the last year Annalee was working with her Dad on a writing project and they’d recently traveled to L.A. for a consultants review of the project. During that trip they also squeezed in an overnight tuna fishing voyage out of Newport Beach to San Clementi Island where they caught a nice yellowtail. While visiting home last summer the duo made a quick trip to Lake Powell. There, to both of their delight, an adventure ensued: the boat broke down about a ½ mile from the launch ramp. With the wind in their favor, Annalee laughed with delight while making a little phone video, as Dad paddled them back to the landing. The next day they relished swimming in the crystal clear water off the free beach by the dam. Just soaking up the sun on the warm sandstone cliffs. Her Dad said she’d floated way out that day - too far from shore - and he yelled and waved her back in. He said to her after words “if anything would’ve happen to you out there I couldn’t have saved you”. She laughed and said she could hear the fear in his voice and swam right back from the deep waters.

 The void created by Annalee's early departure from this life will never be filled by those who love her. We pray to God, ask for help to endure this tragedy, and know in our hearts that she is at Peace in Heaven. We wish we could have saved YOU".

We love you always to beyond the moon and back. Dad & Mom