[1] Until its abolishment in 1965, the Board oversaw all interior and exterior upkeep and enhancements to the Texas Governor's Mansion.

from the University of Texas, she was the women's editor for the Abilene Reporter-News [3] while also teaching at Hardin-Simmons.

[4] During her enrollment at the University of Texas, Moody had been one of the editors at The Daily Texan student newspaper.

Months later on election night, her new husband defeated the sitting Governor Miriam Ferguson.

After her husband's term expired in 1931, she authored a perspective of her tenure as the First Lady of Texas for The Dallas Morning News, including her recommendation that an entity needed to be created to oversee the mansion's upkeep.