Dr. Thomas V. Moser

Family-Placed Funeral Notice

DR. THOMAS V. MOSER Dr. Thomas Vincent Moser, 55, an orthopedic surgeon, died of heart failure while skiing in Waterville Valley, New Hampshire on Sunday, January 23, 2005. Born in New York City on September 25, 1949, he was the son of August Moser and Elisabeth Schrafft Moser. He grew up in Englewood, NJ and Palm Beach, FL. He graduated with high honors from the University of Texas at Austin in 1972. After studying medicine at Lille University in France, he received his medical degree from the Medical College of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia in 1978. He interned at Boston City Hospital and did his residency in orthopedics at Catholic Medical Center in Jamaica, NY, and the Albert Einstein Medical Center in Philadelphia from 1983 to 1987. From 1987 to 1988, he was awarded and completed an arthroscopic fellowship at Washington (D.C.) Orthopedic Clinic. In 1968, Dr. Moser was an all-state football selection at fullback from Cardinal Newman High School in West Palm Beach, FL. He played football at Brown University and then rugby at the University of Texas. He became a top-level rugby player, playing against major club teams while on international tours in England, Ireland and France. He played for rugby teams in Lille, Philadelphia, Boston, Louisiana Exiles, Old Blue/ NYC and Washington, D.C. He was selected for the Eastern Rugby Union All Star Team, the New England Select Side and was captain of the Boston Rugby Club from 1981 to 1982. From 1988 to 1994, he played for U.S. Masters XV competing in the Bermuda World Rugby Classic Tournament. Family members include his wife of 21 years, Christine (Downey) Moser of Bedford, New Hampshire; three beloved daughters, Alexandra, Anna and Sophia, all of Bedford; 10 siblings, George, Johann, Peter, Christian, Robert, Maria (Ghoneim), Stephen, Timothy, Patrice (Morrison) and August; and many nephews and nieces. Lambert Funeral Home in Manchester, New Hampshire handled the arrangements.