You’ve probably seen headlines like this over the past few days: Equifax® Says Cyberattack May Have Hit 143 Million Customers MIKE MOELLER, SR.
“What the mind can conceive and believe, it can achieve.” –Napoleon Hill
On October 20th, we here at DuPont Wealth Solutions and DuPont and Blumenstiel lost a friend, father, partner, and mentor when Mike Moeller, Sr. succumbed to his monthslong battle with cancer. Many of you receiving this newsletter took time out of your busy lives to attend Mike’s funeral and his family’s receiving hours. Although I know the family has reached out to you to express their appreciation, on behalf of our team here I would like to thank you as well. It is uplifting to see how much his clients cared for him. On a personal note, Mike was a big influence in my life and a big reason why I decided to expand my law practice to include financial planning and advising. He was a mentor for me as I learned the profession, and a trustworthy friend. It seems like only yesterday he introduced himself to me, a story he loved to recite almost as much as he liked to say I was one of the very few attorneys he ever trusted. It seems like only yesterday that he, Mike, Jr., and I sat at a booth in the Clarmont Restaurant discussing the possibility of his son, Mike, Jr., coming to work with me.
In one of our final conversations Mike asked me if I would say a few words at his funeral, an honor that I accepted without reservation. After accepting, I was stumped. How do you sum up the life of a man like Mike? Upon much reflection, I realized that Mike was a true product of his era — and his own design. He was in many ways a stereotypical self-made man. A student of Napoleon Hill, Earl Nightingale, and the Bible, he saw who he wanted to be and set out to be that person. However, the term ‘self-made’ fails to capture the true nature of the man and the contributions of those he loved. No, Mike was a man who made himself what he was — and did it for Barb and his kids — but he did not do it alone. Barb was his guiding light and the love of his life. There was nothing he would not do for her. Those of us who were blessed to have known Mike know that he was an irrepressible force of nature, a man who would be almost as quick to share with you his vast knowledge as he was to share with you his opinion. Although cancer took him from our physical world, he will live on in our memory.
Thank you, my friend. You will be missed.
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