Lasting Memories

William Moser
1924-Oct. 12, 2008
Menlo Park, California

William Moser, who taught and served as a principal at various schools on military bases throughout the world, died Oct. 12 at his home in Menlo Park. He was 84.

Mr. Moser was born in Los Angeles and grew up in Porterville, California, where he attended a one-room school through the eighth grade.

During World War II, he served in the U.S. Navy in 11 campaigns in the Pacific aboard the cruiser USS New Orleans. He received a transfer to the NROTC program at Stanford University near the end of the war.

He graduated from Stanford with a bachelor's degree and a master's degree in education. After six years of teaching in California, he was accepted to teach at the school for military dependents in Naples, Italy. After a year, he transferred to a base in Germany, where he taught for three years before transferring to Verona. He also taught at a dependents' school on Taiwan.

In 1961 he returned to California and taught in the Bay Area while obtaining a master's degree in history from San Francisco State University. In 1968 he transferred to Berlin High School in Germany for his first administrative assignment at a dependents' school, and in 1971 moved to the military base in Aschaffenburg, Germany, for his first elementary school assignment. He retired in 1986 after teaching 10 years at the elementary school on the military base in Ramstein, Germany.

Mr. Moser is survived by his son, Oliver vonTempski of Berlin, Germany, and niece, Sue Toyama.