Jeffery Lane Moen

Jeffery Lane Moen died peacefully on 16 September 2026 in Stockton, California. He was 65. No cause of death was publicly disclosed.

Cherokee Memorial Park and Funeral Home in Lodi published the family obituary. Inside CDCR carried a staff remembrance on 30 September 2026, quoting the California Health Care Facility in Stockton in extending sympathy to his wife, mother, siblings, grandchildren and friends.

A funeral service and celebration of life were scheduled for 10 a.m. on Thursday, 1 October 2026, at the Chapel of Flowers in the Sierra View Mausoleum at Cherokee Memorial Park, 14165 North Beckman Road, Lodi.

Jeffery Lane Moen was born on 1 November 1960 in Garden Grove, California. Public accounts of his childhood and schooling are limited. By early adulthood he had settled in the Stockton area of California's Central Valley, where he would spend his working life in youth corrections and raise his family.

Moen joined the California Youth Authority in January 1994 as a group supervisor at Dewitt Nelson Youth Correctional Facility in Stockton. In March 2000 he was promoted to youth correctional officer and began work as a K-9 handler. About a year later he was assigned to the Northern California Youth Correctional Center.

In August 2006 he was promoted to sergeant and returned to K-9 duties at Dewitt Nelson. When Dewitt Nelson closed in July 2008, he transferred to N.A. Chaderjian Youth Correctional Facility. He remained there until retiring in August 2011, after roughly seventeen years of service with the youth corrections system that later operated under the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation.

Inside CDCR later wrote that throughout his career he was most proud of being a K-9 handler and of his partnership with dogs Moe and Thor.

Moen was married to Darla Moen. Together with his wife he raised four children, Tiffany Loesch, Jonathan Moen, Melissa Corder and Matthew Lewellen, and he became grandfather to thirteen grandchildren. His family obituary also named his mother, brother and sister among those who survived him.

He cherished his working and companion dogs Moe, Thor and Loki. Outside work he followed the San Francisco Giants and the Oakland Raiders and enjoyed riding his bicycle through town. Those who knew him described family time as his greatest joy.

Moen is remembered by colleagues as a dedicated youth correctional officer whose professional pride rested on K-9 work and the bond with his dogs. His family remembered him as a beloved husband, son, father, brother, Papa and friend whose legacy lives on through the people he loved. Inside CDCR's notice placed his service in the long line of California youth corrections staff whose careers shaped daily life inside the state's juvenile facilities.