{"id":34957,"date":"2025-11-04T16:23:08","date_gmt":"2025-11-04T16:23:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/34957\/"},"modified":"2025-11-04T16:23:08","modified_gmt":"2025-11-04T16:23:08","slug":"san-patricio-county-mourns-loss-of-longtime-sheriff-leroy-moody","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/34957\/","title":{"rendered":"San Patricio County mourns loss of longtime sheriff Leroy Moody"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>SINTON, Texas \u2014 San Patricio County is mourning the loss of longtime sheriff <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.kristv.com\/news\/local-news\/in-your-neighborhood\/san-patricio-county\/longtime-san-patricio-county-sheriff-leroy-moody-passes-away-after-decades-of-service\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Leroy Moody,<\/a> who dedicated 55 years of his life to law enforcement, including 30 years as the county sheriff before retiring in 2019.<\/p>\n<p>San Patricio County mourns loss of longtime sheriff Leroy Moody<\/p>\n<p>At Monday&#8217;s commissioners court meeting, County Judge David Krebs called for a moment of silence in honor of Moody.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;He&#8217;ll never be replaced, but we&#8217;ll always remember him here in our hearts and what he did for this county,&#8221; Krebs said.<\/p>\n<p>Those who knew Moody described him as deeply committed to public service and the community.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Very dedicated human being to the city of Sinton. Very dedicated to the people of San Patricio County and he was extremely dedicated to his law enforcement career,&#8221; Krebs said.<\/p>\n<p>That dedication extended beyond his role as sheriff. Moody was instrumental in establishing the <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/e-clubhouse.org\/sites\/sinton_nite\/contact.php\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Lions Club <\/a>in Sinton for San Patricio County employees.<\/p>\n<p>Homer Roblez has been a member of the Lions Club for over 25 years and first met Moody through the organization.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This coming December 1st, he would have been celebrating his fifty-fifth year as a Lion member,&#8221; Roblez said.<\/p>\n<p>County Commissioner William Zagorski, who was friends with Moody for over four decades, struggled to come to terms with the loss.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;You know, I&#8217;m still trying to grasp that he&#8217;s gone, you know, it&#8217;s, it&#8217;s hard,&#8221; Zagorski said. &#8220;The man is not just a peace officer, the man is not just a sheriff, he&#8217;s, he&#8217;s a legend in the state. Makes me tear up.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Here are the funeral arrangements for Leroy Moody: <\/p>\n<p>Funeral Service will be held on Wednesday, Nov 19, 11am at First Baptist Church in Portland followed by 1pm graveside at VA Cemetery in Corpus.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SINTON, Texas \u2014 San Patricio County is mourning the loss of longtime sheriff Leroy Moody, who dedicated 55&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":34958,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[155,157,156,7323,8775,22067,10836,4922,21412,22068],"class_list":{"0":"post-34957","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-corpus-christi","8":"tag-corpus-christi","9":"tag-corpus-christi-headlines","10":"tag-corpus-christi-news","11":"tag-county-commissioner","12":"tag-county-judge","13":"tag-leroy-moody","14":"tag-san-patricio-county","15":"tag-sheriff","16":"tag-sinton-texas","17":"tag-victoria-balderrama"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34957","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34957"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34957\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/34958"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34957"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34957"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34957"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}