Roll Call Tribute

Edward Louis Moses, Jr. 

May 4, 1936 - March 2, 2025 

Edward Louis Moses, Jr., “Eddie” was born on the 4th of May 1936, in San Antonio to the late Edward Louis Moses, Sr. and Stella Marie “Tita” Moses. He returned to the Lord on Sunday, the 2nd of March 2025.

Eddie was under the care of hospice when he died peacefully. Eddie was preceded in death by both parents, his uncle, David Mendiola, and his son, Edward Louis Moses III.

In 1954, Eddie graduated from Jefferson High School in San Antonio and entered the Corps of Cadets at Texas A&M. Much to his mother’s chagrin, Eddie left the Corps after his sophomore year to focus on his engineering studies. Eddie graduated from Texas A&M University in 1958 with a B.S. in Petroleum Engineering. Throughout his life, Eddie remained a proud Aggie, always wearing his Aggie ring, and supporting many programs and scholarships at Texas A&M.

For nearly sixty years, Eddie had an outstanding career in the oil and gas industry. Known as a true “wildcatter” and described as a renaissance man, he began his career with The Superior Oil Company in 1958, where he started as a roustabout and quickly moved into the design and drilling of wells. Through his twenty-five years at Superior, Eddie pioneered deep, high pressure drilling in some of the most difficult drilling environments in the world. As head of Superior’s global drilling operations, he oversaw drilling along the Gulf Coast, Alaska, the North Sea, South China Sea in the Philippines, South Africa, Papua New Guinea, Bahrain, offshore Malta, the east and west coasts of India and in Central America. During this period, Eddie lived in most of the places he drilled, dealing directly with the governments in the countries and often in the most difficult drilling environments in the world, and consulted on numerous other wells across the globe.

Eddie had a very successful career, but there are a few notable achievements of which he was most proud. In the late 1950s, Eddie was tasked with engineering a hydrocarbon well in a freshwater reservoir in Amsterdam, which happen to provide most of the drinking water for the city and was one of the most environmentally sensitive places in Europe. Eddie was told he was traveling to Holland for a few weeks, and did not return home to the U.S. for years. In the early 1960s, Eddie was the engineer on the highest pressure well in the world at that time, outside of Houma, Louisiana. Eddie also drilled the first offshore well in South Africa, which was in a hostile environment at the time.

After leaving Superior, Eddie continued his career with the formation of several companies, including Franques & Moses Engineering, F&M Drilling, ELM International, and Contract Drilling, a turnkey drilling company. He was one of the original partners of Tatham Offshore, Inc., which eventually sold to El Paso Oil, was Chairman and CEO of Prime Natural Resource Company, helped form Caliber Energy, and consulted for many other companies and countries.

From a young age, Eddie developed a love for the outdoors, which he passed along to his children and grandchildren. In the early-1980s, he began collecting guns, became certified as a gunsmith, and built a gun workshop in his house. Eddie went on numerous hunting expeditions across the world, including a month-long bear hunting trip in Alaska, where word has it, that a grizzly was less than two feet from him, and he was armed with only a pistol.

As much as he loved traveling and experiencing the outdoors all over the world, his true love was his ranch near Del Rio, “Rancho El Mirasol,” which is undoubtedly one of the most beautiful places in Texas. Eddie always had an open door at Rancho El Mirasol inviting everyone he knew and hosting numerous colleagues, board members, clients, and of course, his family and many friends. A visit to Rancho El Mirasol always included hunting, a lot of laughs, many dogs, the occasional donkey entering the house, and a few (or more) sips of tequila around the fire pit.

Eddie lived a great life. Although he had a serious and stubborn side, he balanced that with a lot of humor, always telling the funniest jokes. He was a loyal friend and extremely generous. He was a loving father, son, brother, uncle, and friend.

Eddie leaves behind his beloved daughter, Elicia and son-in-law Paul Marsden; his precious grandsons, Liam and Patrick Waggener; his sister, Marie Moses Phillips; her children and grandchildren, Carolyn Phillips Kammeier (Faith, Clare, and Catherine), David Phillips (Natalia, and Renata), Nancy Phillips Morris (Buddy Morris, and Sophie, and Henry Batchelder); and numerous extended family and friends.

Eddie’s family would like to thank the teams at Pax Et Vita, Arosa, and the Doliver of Tanglewood for their loving care over the past year.

A memorial service is to be conducted at two o'clock in the afternoon on Tuesday, the 18th of March at St. Martin's Episcopal Church, 717 Sage Road in Houston.

Immediately following all will be invited to greet the family during a reception to be held in nearby Bagby Hall.

In lieu of customary remembrances, those wishing to honor Eddie’s memory are invited to consider memorial contributions be directed to St. Martin’s Episcopal Church; or Texas Parks and Wildlife; or The Texas A&M Foundation.