Edward O. Moran

Edward O. Moran, 82 of Santa Rosa passed away to a more perfect world on Sunday September 19th, 2010 surrounded by his loving sister Ruth Moran, 83, his devoted niece Margaret Elizabeth Bloom of Sacramento and nephew Anthony E. (Tony) Moran of San Ramon. Mr. Moran died after a long illness. He was born and raised in San Salvador, El Salvador and came to the USA as a permanent resident when he was 13 with his father, sister Ruth and younger brother Frank on December 21, 1941. His Salvadoran parents were both well-known educators in El Salvador. Professor Moran was one of the founders of the elite private school Garcia Flamenco and Mrs. Rosalinda Margot Tula de Moran was a true pioneer of the Montessori Kindergarten educational method in El Salvador. In the USA, Professor Moran taught Spanish and World History in the small Ozark Town of AVA, MO for two years, then returned to El Salvador to teach in his school and in Guatemala City. Mrs. Moran died at age 32 in May 1932 when Ed was only three years old. Professor Moran did not marry again till 1946, when he married the former Emma Posada, a talented writer. Only one daughter, Ana Isabel Moran Posada was born from that marriage. "Anabel" later became a pediatrician. She passed away in 1982. Ed graduated from Commerce H.S. of San Francisco in 1946 and served from 1948 to 1952 in the 40th AAA Brigade in Yokohama, Japan during the Korean War in the US Army. After his honorable discharge he worked five years for the McEsson and Robinson Drug Co. of S.F., then for 26 years at NASA in Moffet Field as an Engineering Technician in the Pressure Tunnels. He retired with 30 years of loyal service because they gave him credit for the four years in the Army. Ed's passionate hobbies were swimming when he was young, tennis as he matured, and playing the French Horn in local orchestras when he lived in San Mateo and Foster City, but the happiest years of his life were the sixteen years he lived in his condo just across the lane from the Stonefield tennis court, which he enjoyed often with his tennis court buddies. His friends named that court "Ed's Court" in loving tribute to this shy and gentle man. Ed had relatives in the S.F. Bay Area, in the states of Washington and Connecticut, in Australia, Germany, Puerto Rico, El Salvador, and in various California cities. The Moran family lovingly thanks everyone who helped Ed carry his cross, plus all his terrific Stonefield neighbors who gave him so much love and friendship during the hardest, final months of life. Sincere gratitude is extended to Ed's lifetime friends, Mimi and Jim Watson, from the Boston area, for their devoted love and caring, and to 16 year old Ethan O. Nadler from New Mexico, for his deep friendship to Ed, who became like a grandfather to this gifted boy. Our thanks, also, to all the doctors, nurses, and technicians who so lovingly tried to help Ed. A Memorial Mass will be said for Ed at the Saint Rose Catholic Church on Monday, October 18th, at 2:00 p.m., but interment will be private in a local rose garden.