Leif Moller

Leif was born in Esbjerg, Denmark on March 6, 1933 to Arne and Ellen Moller (Blaesbjerg) before moving to Copenhagen, Denmark at a young age. As a boy during World War II, he experienced walking to school with his grandmother one morning and seeing German airplanes flying overhead; finding out at the end of the day that the German Army had completed the occupation of Denmark.

Leif is survived by his three sons, Michael Fairbanks Moller, Stephen Fairbanks Moller, and Eric Fairbanks Moller, four grandchildren, Jordan Moller, Lindsay Moller, Lillie Moller, and Christian Moller, his sister Birgit Clausen and her children, Ulla and Per and their families, and by his former wife Patricia H. Fairbanks. He was preceded into death by his second wife, Dora Edith Tapia Villalobos.

Leif had a long and full life which included graduating from the Copenhagen School of Business and having a lifelong passion for business and entrepreneurship. Leif lived in Brazil, Mexico and Virginia for most of his adult life, raising his three sons in Mexico and Virginia, and working as a business manager and co-Founding many and varied businesses during his life. His most notable career success was during his years living in Mexico in the 60’s and 70’s where he was a co-owner and business operations manager for Hercules, SA, which manufactured cranes, and Quimica Michoacana, SA, a chemicals business.

All who knew Leif, whether it was his family and friends, or his business associates, were impressed by his determination to succeed in any pursuit he undertook, his strength of character, and his love of life and family. Following an operation for cancer in his spinal cord at Johns Hopkins, Leif had to undergo six weeks of high proton radiation therapy which was not available in the DC region in those days. Leif went to Reagan National Airport for the first flight to Boston every morning, then used local transit to get to Mass General Hospital for his treatment every weekday, then returned to Washington, DC and went to work at his travel business for several hours before returning home in the late evening. He did this every day for six weeks. Leif had extraordinary will and perseverance.

His life will be celebrated privately by his family.