Mary Lena Waller Moody (1924 – 2021) was a committed community leader in Corona, Queens.

Waller Moody was a volunteer with the Board of Education and later became the president of the Parent Teacher Association of P.S. 92 in Corona, Queens; this led to a career in the education field when, in 1962, she was offered a job as a school aide at P.S. 92, later became the school’s supervisory paraprofessional. She retired from the New York City Board of Education in 1995.

Waller Moody served as a Girl Scout Leader at the First Baptist Church in Corona, was an election inspector in the neighborhood, supervised the Saturday educational program for children in Corona at Grace Episcopal Church, owned and operated Big City Realty, which helped provide residence for low income families in Corona, and provided daycare services for working mothers in Corona. She was involved in other community efforts, including supporting the Flushing Meadow Soap Box Derby and collecting toys for disabled children at Goldwater Hospital. She received many citations, rewards, and proclamations in her lifetime, but two highlighting experiences of her life were being crowned Miss Fine Brown Frame of Harlem, and receiving the City Proclamation of “ Mrs. Mary Moody Day” at City Hall in October 2019.