Arthur Moshinskie,

Art loved life, and he lived his life hard and joyously. He grew up in the Mohawk River Valley of upstate New York, in the small town of St. Johnsville, amidst dairy farms, apple orchards, and maple syrup trees. He loved the outdoors and fast cars, and he inherited a love of Harleys and model trains from his father. He volunteered to join the Army in 1974. He served stateside, and referred to himself as a Vietnam era veteran. He was willing and proud to serve his country in any way it needed. After his service, he worked in the textile industry in New York and Maryland as a machinery mechanic and department head. Then in 1988, when he learned that Yellowstone was burning, he decided that since he had always wanted to go there, he'd better do it before it was gone. So he did, and he fell in love with Montana. He went home, quit his job, bought 20 acres north of Reedpoint, and started building his cabin. In between stints of working on the cabin, he worked at a munitions factory near Missoula, and refurbished and repaired furniture for an antiques dealer in Reedpoint. He met his wife Sol in 1993 through the local dating service, One to One Introductions. On June 26, 1993, only three months and a week after they met, they married. Art moved to Billings, and they both enjoyed working on his Reedpoint cabin on the weekends. He worked for a clothing manufacturer in Billings for a while, then returned to another of his passions - beautiful cabinetry and fine woodworking - until he stopped working because of his health. Along the way, they enjoyed life and each other. Sol told the dating service she hoped to find someone to love who would help her learn how to play, and Art certainly delivered. He introduced her to motorcycles, fast cars, boating and fishing, Boxer dogs, and shooting skeet. Together they discovered powered parachutes, a type of ultralight aircraft. They flew them and sold them. Sol trained the flyers, Art kept them running, and they enjoyed traveling all around the country to attend powered parachute flyins. Art also built two beautiful model train layouts -- one in their Billings home, and one after they moved to the home they built on Shepherd Acton Road. They had 26 good years together, until his health finally failed him. Art is survived by his wife Sol, his sister Sally Rush in St. Johnsville, New York, and his brothers Steven in Liverpool, New York, and Jeffrey in Arkansas. In lieu of flowers, please donate in Art's name to the Yellowstone Valley Animal Shelter, PO Box 20920, Billings, MT 59104.