Carl Mitchell Mosen

Carl’s family moved to Springfield, Oregon, from Bend, Oregon, in the early 1950s. He attended the then new Springfield Junior High School in 1952 and Springfield High School in 1953 and 1954 before transferring to Eugene’s Central Catholic High School, where he excelled in both track and basketball.

Upon graduation he attended the University of Oregon, where he played on the freshman basketball team before transferring to Shasta College in Redding, California.

Carl served in the U.S. Army at Fort Benning, Georgia in the early 1960s at the time of the Cuban missile crisis. There, he received special recognition as the most athletic member of his platoon.

Carl married his wife Barbara in 1970 in Southern California where they both lived until Carl’s passing. In the late 1980s Carl founded “Sober Living By The Sea”, a drug and alcohol recovery facility in Newport Beach, CA. Some years later he sold the business and shortly thereafter, co-founded a new franchise, “Hotel California By the Sea”, where he served as CEO until his death. In 2019 he helped found “Out of Africa By The Sea, Ltd”., a recovery business in Kenya, Africa. He was well known for his compassion and generosity. Through his recovery centers, Carl helped thousands of people regain sobriety and fruitful lives.

He was preceded in death by his parents, Roy Mosen (1943) and Margaret Hurley (2005) and his sister Anna Mosen (2016). At the time of this death, he was survived by his wife Barbara, his sons Mitchell Mosen and David Mosen, daughter-in-law Kim Vesco and grandchildren Madeline and Zachary Mosen, Karen Mosen and brother Patrick Hurley. He is also mourned by his niece Andrea Donohue, his nephew Keith Tuter, his niece Kaeli Hurley and his first wife, Judy Cook Mosen Keeler and countless friends.

A celebration of life is planned for Carl in Newport Beach, CA in early August 2025.