On August 26, 2018, our beloved daughter and sister, Amy Marie Moffat Graham, 28, together with her husband, passed away while traveling through Washington state. Amy was born on February 22, 1990 in Thousand Oaks, California, and grew up in Agoura Hills, California. She attended Agoura High School, where she participated in cross country and in track and field as a pole vaulter. She graduated with honors in 2008.
Amy was a gifted teacher and loved teaching the gospel of Jesus Christ while serving as a missionary for The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in the Utah, St. George Mission from 2011-2012. In 2015, Amy graduated from Brigham Young University with a Bachelor's Degree in Teaching. Needing to give up pole vaulting at BYU due to health problems, Amy turned her athletic focus to Muay Thai. She found great joy and purpose in coaching Muay Thai youth classes at Wasatch Combat Sports in Orem, Utah. In recent years, Amy's passion for teaching shifted to nutritional therapy. After healing her own health problems by using nutrition, Amy returned to school to earn her certificate as a Nutritional Therapy Practitioner and began helping others find healing through nutrition. She loved sharing her knowledge and experience in the classes she taught and information she shared on social media.
Those who knew Amy described her as being full of life. She met life's challenges with optimism, humor, and faith. She constantly pushed herself to step out of her comfort zone and try new things and inspired others to do the same. She had a way of truly connecting with everyone she came in contact with.
On a mountain biking trip to Whistler, Canada in August 2017, Amy became acquainted with a friendly and charming young man named Stephen Graham. It didn't take long for her to discover that he shared her love of life and passion for outdoor adventures. Over the next year, they fell in love while mountain biking, dirt biking, hiking, exploring, and skiing. Amy and Stephen were married in the Utah mountains on August 11, 2018 and looked forward to being sealed for eternity in a temple of God. Two days after their wedding, Amy publicly expressed her love for her best friend and new husband. She wrote that she had never felt more loved in her life and had never been treated more like a queen than she was by Stephen. "Stephen, I feel like the luckiest girl alive. Thank you for each and every crazy, beautiful, and crazy beautiful moment we have shared up until this point. I can't wait to see what adventures lie ahead of us," she wrote.
On August 26th, while traveling near Prosser, Washington on the way to their honeymoon in Whistler, Canada, Amy and Stephen were tragically involved in a fatal car accident. Both passed away at the scene. They leave a legacy of love, service, kindness, humor, optimism, and faith and will be deeply missed by many. As members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, we know they have been received into the spirit world with loving arms. And because of our Heavenly Father's merciful plan for us and our Savior's atonement and resurrection, we know we will be reunited with them again someday.
Amy is survived by her parents, John and Brenda Moffat; siblings John (Ashley), Travis, Kirsten, and Joseph; by grandparents Lynn and Nadine Bosen, many aunts, uncles, cousins, two nephews and a niece; and by countless friends whose lives she touched for good.
Visitation services will be held for both Amy and Stephen on Friday evening, September 7, 2018 from 6:00-9:00 p.m. at the Larkin Mortuary of Riverton, 3688 West 12600 South, Riverton, Utah, 84065. Funeral Services will be held Saturday September 8 at 12:00 noon at The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, 12154 S 3600 W, Riverton, UT, 84065. A brief visitation will be held at 11:00 a.m. immediately prior to the funeral service.
