Roy Mosman

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Roy Mosman, a Moscow attorney, former district judge and former member of the Idaho State Board of Education, passed away peacefully Thursday, Dec. 7, 2006, in the company of his family. He was 74. A native of Boise, Mosman attended what is now North Junior High and graduated from Boise High School. He went on to attend Boise Junior College and the University of Idaho on football scholarships. He was a junior college All-American at BJC, and was the University of Idaho's first nominee to represent the school at the prestigious East-West All-Star Shrine football game of 1953. That award was particularly special to him as he had spent nearly 18 months in the Shriners Children's Hospital in Portland, Ore., when he was 5 years old. At the University of Idaho he met the young woman who was to become his partner and wife. He married Barbara Greene Sept. 6, 1952, in Frederick, Md. He graduated from the Medical College of Virginia, where their daughter Jill was born, before attending law school at the University of Oregon, where he graduated with a Juris Doctor in 1959. Sons Michael and Craig were born in Eugene during law school. Roy, Barbara and their family moved to Lewiston, where he was elected Nez Perce County prosecutor just three years after his graduation from law school, the first Republican elected in the county in decades. He served as prosecutor in Nez Perce County for 11 years, once garnering the nomination from both political parties. While in Lewiston, sons Matthew and Wynn were additions to the family. In 1973 Mosman was appointed a judge in the 2nd Judicial District by Gov. Cecil Andrus, and the family moved to Moscow. He served as district judge for five years before opening a law practice in Moscow, where he worked until his retirement. Gov. Andrus later appointed Mosman to another post, on the Idaho State Board of Education, where he served three terms, including a term as president. As a board member he stood firmly against increased tuition and fees at Idaho universities, arguing that such increases are not allowed in the Idaho Constitution. A devout member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Mosman served throughout his adult life in various church leadership capacities. He was bishop of the married students ward at the University of Idaho, he and his wife were missionaries at the church's historical sites in Palmyra, N.Y., and he served as president of the Pullman Washington Stake. He was instrumental in the construction of the church's Moscow Idaho Stake Center. Mosman loved his family, his church, and athletics, particularly at the University of Idaho. He relished every opportunity to see one of his children or grandchildren participate in a sporting event, and he was proud to see four of his children and three of his grandchildren serve as missionaries for the LDS church. Of his relationship with his wife, his friend Bob Hall wrote: "To his constant wife and best friend Barbara, who took over Roy's professional career achievement project from (his mother) Bessie, in college, his return of respect and affection leaves the result that neither is ever referred to by friends as just 'Roy' or 'Barbara.' We talk about 'Roy and Barb,' as if they are one and the same. They are. That's high praise for a marriage in a time when wives and husbands carefully post full, separate names in phone books and on letterheads." Mosman was named Distinguished Lawyer by the Idaho State Bar, and was honored by the Idaho Chapter of the American Federation of Teachers. He was also given the University of Idaho Alumni Association's Jim Lyle award for service to his alma mater. He is survived by his wife of 54 years, Barbara Mosman of Moscow, and by his five children: Jill Reardon of Boise, Michael Mosman of West Linn, Ore., Craig Mosman of Washington, Utah, Matthew Mosman of San Mateo, Calif., and Wynn Mosman of Moscow. He is also survived by his brother, Bill Mosman of Garden Valley, Idaho, by his sister, Karin Morley of Salt Lake City, and by 21 grandchildren and two great-grandchildren. Memorial services will be conducted at 11 a.m. Monday, Dec. 11, in the Moscow IdahoLDS StakeCenter at 1657 South Blaine in Moscow. The family suggests memorial contributions be made to the Vandal Scholarship Fund, P.O. Box 442304, Moscow, ID 83844. https://lmtribune.com/northwest/roy-mosman-released-from-hospital/a... Idaho Board of Education member Roy Mosman has been released from the hospital to begin rehabilitation following a fall at his home late last month. Mosman, 66, who was in a coma for eight days following the June 27 accident, was released from St Joseph Regional Medical Center in Lewiston on Monday and transferred to St. Luke's Spinal Cord Rehabilitation Center in Spokane. His wife, Barbara, said he would remain at St. Luke's for up to eight weeks. "As a result of the great progress Roy has made in the past week, we are now very hopeful that he will fully recover," Barbara Mosman said in a statement.

The Moscow attorney was appointed to the board in 1991 and reappointed to a new five-year term in 1996. https://lmtribune.com/northwest/former-judge-roy-mosman-dies-at/art... Former judge Roy Mosman dies at 74 Republican began political career in Nez Perce County; he also served on state education board Longtime attorney and former Judge Roy E. Mosman died Thursday at Gritman MedicalCenter in Moscow. He was 74. Mosman, who spent more than a decade as the prosecuting attorney for Nez Perce County before being appointed as a district court judge, was later appointed to the Idaho State Board of Education by former Gov. Cecil Andrus. A Republican, Mosman was sometimes the sole member of his party elected to office in Nez Perce County. He was first elected in 1962, and served until beingSons Craig and Wynn later joined him in the family law practice he began in 1980. Mosman served on the Idaho State Board of Education from 1991 to 1998, when a fall led to his resignation of the post. He spent several months rehabilitating after the fall in 1998 -- in which he hit his head and went into a coma for eight days. Mosman was a devout Mormon, and credited his religion and the prayers of family and friends with helping him get through his injury. A Boise High School graduate, Mosman was an All American while playing football for Boise Junior College in 1951. He later played lineman for the University of Idaho Vandals. He graduated from UI in 1953. He graduated from the University of Oregon School of Law in 1959. His wife, Barbara, graduated from Lewis-Clark State College. The two were married in 1952. The Mosmans had a daughter, Jill, and four sons, Michael, Craig, Wynn and Matt. As an attorney, Mosman served on both sides of criminal cases.

appointed to the 2nd District judgeship by Andrus in 1973. He served as a district judge from 1974 to 1980.

Among his high-profile cases was one in 1995, when Mosman and son Craig defended Ken D. Arrasmith, who was convicted of a double murder in the deaths of Clarkston residents Ronald and Luella Bingham, who had been under investigation by the Asotin County Sheriff's Department on allegations they molested Arrasmith's 15-year-old daughter. Mosman won numerous awards during his career, including the Distinguished Lawyer Award from the Idaho State Bar. Other honors included those from the University of Idaho Chapter of the American Federation of Teachers and the University of Idaho Alumni Association's Jim Lyle award for service to his alma mater. https://lmtribune.com/northwest/he-has-something-better-than-a-livi...
He has something better than a living will -- a will to live; Roy Mosman's beating the odds MOSCOW -- Many people are greeting Roy E. Mosman these days with a heartfelt "Good to see you!" Mosman, a 66-year-old attorney and former district judge, responds with an equally sincere, "It's good to be seen." That's how he makes light of some very heavy circumstances. "Lots of people have tough roads," he shrugs, "and this one, well, we're still not quite there." Mosman, a recent member of the Idaho Board of Education, continues to go through rehabilitation after he fell last June 27, struck his head and ended up in a coma. Thousands of University of Idaho football fans two weeks ago greeted him as he made his way, cane in hand, to mid field at the last Vandal home game of the season. The crowd applauded him for his years of service on the education board. But many of the fans were also cheering Mosman's victory against the odds. His wife, Barbara, contrasts the ovation with the first question an attending physician asked just hours after the accident. "Does your husband have a living will?" Actually, said Barbara, her husband has something better -- a will to live. "By next summer," Mosman said, "I want to be playing golf again." In the meantime, he's working to regain the full use of his limbs and recoup some more of his memory. "It was just a short little stairway and there was nothing to it. I don't know why I fell. I don't remember any of it." Barbara, on the other hand, remembers the accident all too well. "He was going to back the car out, and we were going someplace," she said. "I was fooling around in the kitchen and I heard the door slam between our house and the garage. I thought it was the wind." When she investigated, Barbara found her husband at the bottom of the flight of stairs, lying motionless and not breathing. "I hit the edge of the door right here," said Roy, pointing to the right side of his head. "And it pushed my neck back and broke my neck." Having compensated since childhood for a disease that left his left leg shorter than his right, Mosman had undergone corrective hip surgery only weeks earlier. "He was on crutches, and I think he just got caught up in them," said Barbara. She called 911 and Moscow EMTs arrived moments later. Mosman was taken unconscious to Moscow's Gritman MedicalCenter, then transported to the intensive care unit at St. Joseph Regional MedicalCenter in Lewiston. There, his wife and family, including five children and numerous grandchildren, took up the vigil. "I have a religion that deals with things like this," said Mosman, a devout Mormon. "If I hadn't come around, we have a belief about what happens under those circumstances." For eight days, Mosman lay in a coma with doctors hedging on a prognosis. "They were very discouraging about his chances for recovery," Barbara recalled. But the family was already deep in prayer. One of the Mosmans' four sons, attorney Craig Mosman, told the Lewiston Tribune at the time, "We have an eye of hope. He's in there fighting, and that's what we expect from him. He's a very strong man." Roy Mosman deflects such accolades in favor of something he says is even stronger. "Part of this thing is that we believe in prayer," he explained. "And there were people all over this town and in Lewiston, in our church and other churches, who were praying." It was a week-long effort that was scheduled to end on a Sunday. "And on that Sunday," said Mosman, "I woke up." Craig Mosman was at his father's side when it happened and he came running out of the hospital room with the news. "He said, 'He's awake,' " recalled Barbara. Despite the head trauma and the lack of oxygen to his brain, the broken neck and the injured spinal cord, Mosman was conscious again and, as predicted by all of his family members, determined to make as full a recovery as possible. One of the first things he remembered was how to sing the fight song from his alma mater, Boise High School. An All American while playing football for Boise Junior College in 1951, Mosman was also a lineman for the UI Vandals. Barbara said her husband's determination early in life, despite his physical limitations, has undoubtedly served him well when facing current challenges. "That childhood experience prepared him for something like this." The support from colleagues and friends, said Barbara, has also helped prod her husband toward recovery. "We have two laundry baskets full of letters that Roy hasn't gone through yet because there are so many." Mosman goes to physical therapy three times a week.