Tommy - Tom - Big Mo

An Arcadia Legend who starred in Baseball, Football, Bowling, Golf, and Naked Backyard Wiffle Ball. Mo loved competition. He batted over .450 at Arcadia HS before going to USC and playing for Rod Dedeaux. He played in the Alaska Summer League and Grapefruit League games. Mo played 3 years of minor league baseball winning the Midwest League Championship in 1984 with the Appleton Foxes.

He graduated from USC’s Entrepreneur program and held a master’s degree from the Drucker School of Management in Claremont. He had a long and successful career in Investments and Wealth Management. Tom passed away suddenly in his sleep February 26th. He is survived by his wife Dee and daughters Sophia and Kat. Mo was my first cousin.

Memories of Tom Project

We are in the process of collecting as many photographs as possible, videos, and written stories of Tom to help document his life and the impact he had on all our lives.  Some of these will hopefully be used to document who Tom was for generations of his family to come.  It is important that when his grandchildren and great grandchildren come into this world, they have an understanding of how Tom impacted everyone he ever met. We also know he had some wild adventures growing up in Arcadia so feel free to share some memories of those as well.

We have set up an email address where people can send in these materials to the family. Please include your own name and how you knew Tom. We will eventually make a hardcopy book for his family from the materials we gather. Please try and submit higher resolution image files, minimum of 1 MB preferably larger, and Word Documents for stories if possible.

email materials to: thomasandrewmoritz1212@gmail.com

Tom Moritz Memorial Fund

We are in the process of setting this up still and information will be available soon on this page describing the goal of the fund and how to give the tax-deductible donation.