Rest in peace, Tom Morey, the Surfer Who Invented the Boogie Board – boarding has brought my family and me so much joy.
Tom Morey, the creator of the Boogie Board and an influential figure in the surfing world, has died due to complications from a stroke, according to his family. He was 86. It was Morey who introduced more human beings to the act of wave riding than any other single.
Morey was born August 15, 1935, in Detroit, but he moved to Laguna Beach early in his childhood and picked up surfing. By the time he was 12, he had his first paying job as a musician, later studying music at the University of Southern California, where he won a national contest for his jazz band.
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