Ashley Elizabeth Woods

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Ashley Woods, beloved daughter, sister and mother, died unexpectedly after developing a blood clot on Thursday, January 12, 2023 at her home in Weatherford, Texas. She was 35.

Funeral services are scheduled to take place January 20, 2023 at 2 p.m. at White’s Funeral Home, 130 Houston Ave., Weatherford

Interment will be in Dicey Cemetery in Weatherford.

Visitation is 6 p.m. to 8 p.m. Thursday, January 19, 2023 at White’s Funeral Home.

Born Ashley Elizabeth Moon on July 1, 1987, in Long Beach, Calif., she grew up near Barstow, Calif., in the middle of the Mojave Desert. After graduating from Barstow High School in 2005, she joined the U.S. Air Force and was stationed at Whiteman Air Force Base in Johnson County, Mo. Ashley relocated to Texas in 2012 and started a career at American Airlines three years later. She was a senior analyst of global compliance for the company.

Ever helpful and always affable, friends and family remember Ashley’s love and caring, especially when it came to her two children, Kaylee-Ann Elizabeth Woods, 13, and 9-year-old Lloyd Kenneth Woods.

From an early age Ashley was a care-giver, nurturer, helper, and dreamer. She was always attentive to her siblings' needs and feelings. For a time, she was raised by a single father who relied heavily on her to help with her little sisters, Lacee and Brittanee. She would hold them and love them, brush their hair and comfort them.

Her grandma Shirlee was also a huge part in her life as a little girl. Grandma would often take Ashley and later her sisters so that her father could have a break, and she promised to always be there for, and take care of, her grandma when she got older.

As Ashley grew, it was natural for her to help with whatever the family needed, and most often her dad.  Eventually her father would remarry, but Ashley had already developed into the little mother hen. She grew up miles from the town where she went to school and her dad would leave for work by 4 a.m. Ashley would take it upon herself to go out and have the horses and dogs fed by 5 in the morning so that her stepmother didn’t have to add that to the list of things she had to do to get her sisters and brother ready for school, and the long journey into town to work herself. After Ashley’s self-assigned chores were done, she would walk in the dark down the quarter-mile dirt road to where the bus would pick her up and take her to school.

Ashley was her father’s right hand. Whenever something needed to be fixed, built, or taken care of, there was never any question, she would be by his side to help get it done. From her stepmother’s example, Ashley acquired the drive of a strong powerful woman. Never once told by her mother or father that she couldn’t do something because she was a girl, she just knew that she could do anything — including coming home as a freshman in high school and notifying her parents that she wanted to play on the boys’ high school football team. That freshman year she did just that.

Not all of Ashley’s attempts at dreaming big worked out — like the time as an adult she decided she was going to start a company that would raise wild bluefin tuna in giant net corrals in the ocean. That venture didn’t work out, but it was amazing to see how far along she actually got. Again, in her mind, she could do anything.

After graduating high school, Ashley wanted to serve her country, so she enlisted in the Air Force, and she would let you know in no uncertain terms that America is the greatest country on earth. Her work ethic, and the undying willingness to help that she acquired as a child is what led to the beautiful young woman you knew. She was a tireless, driven member of the American Airlines workforce, who strove every day to make the company shine, and, most importantly, to make her teammates shine, as well.

“Her friends and family love her and will miss her dearly,” her father, Jay Moon, of Fallon, Nev., said. “She has gone home to be in the arms of Grandpa, Pop Pop, Grandma and Pa Whitney, and her beloved Uncle Mike. She will now have to watch over all of us from heaven, and when the warm sun touches your skin, you’ll know that it will be her loving arms guiding you and saying, ‘Don’t worry, you can do it.’

“Ashley Elizabeth, you are my sunshine.”

She is survived by her father, Jay, and stepmother, Karen Moon; her sisters, Lacee Robinson, of Fallon, and Brittanee Franke, of Clayton, N.C.; her brother, Garrett Moon, of Boiling Springs, S.C.; her mother, Teresa Keenan, and stepfather, Donald Keenan, both of Kansas; her grandmother, Shirlee Hall-Sky, and Shirlee’s husband, Wally Sky, both of Moreno Valley, Calif.; her grandmother, Linda Seale, of Cypress, Calif.; her partner, Darryle Cash, of Weatherford; and various aunts, uncles, cousins, nieces and nephews.