Daniel \u201cMad Dog\u201d Moyak, age 78 of Erie, passed away on Tuesday July 7, 2026 at Pleasant Ridge Manor. He was born in Erie on September 10, 1947, a son of the late Paul and Marjorie Hill Moyak.<\/p>\n
He lived an eventful life. He was a successful amateur boxer which he lived up to that reputation. He was an original director and boxing coach of the 1st East Side Federation and was also featured in the documentary \u201cTough Guys\u201d about that membership. Danny also was a member of the Painter\u2019s Union for many years. He was a top notch drywall finisher and was featured in an Erie News segment for his ability.<\/p>\n
In addition to his parents, he was preceded in death by an infant daughter Monica.<\/p>\n
He is survived by his ex-wife Janet Moyak and their two wonderful children Paul and Nicole Moyak as well as his sister Kathie Matha, two brothers John and Mike Moyak and several nieces and nephews.<\/p>\n
Friends may call at Burton Quinn-Scott Cremation & Funeral Services, Downtown, 602 W 10th St. Erie PA on Sunday July 19th from 1pm until the time of the memorial service at 3pm. Send condolences at www.burtonquinnscott.com<\/p>\n
To send flowers or plant a memorial tree<\/a> in memory, please visit our flower store<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Daniel \u201cMad Dog\u201d Moyak, age 78 of Erie, passed away on Tuesday July 7, 2026 at Pleasant Ridge…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":239442,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[136,138,137],"class_list":["post-239441","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-erie","tag-erie","tag-erie-headlines","tag-erie-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239441","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=239441"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239441\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/239442"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=239441"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=239441"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=239441"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}