Joseph Wood Moyle, retired U.S. Foreign Service Officer, devoted husband, father, grandfather, amateur old time musician, and avid investor, with a keen wit and vivid command of geopolitics and history, died on July 3, 2024, in Eugene, Oregon. He was 84. The cause was heart failure and contusion from a fall.

Joe was born on January 1, 1940 in Minneapolis, Minnesota, the first of four children of Evelyn Moyle, an ornithologist and co-author Northland Wildflowers, …