Moradian graduated from Fresno High School. He then attended Fresno Normal School (later Fresno State College) for two years-all the education his mother could afford even though he held a variety of jobs as a teenager. Moradian's parents were divorced in 1911, becoming, to Moradian's knowledge, the first American-Armenians in the Fresno area to be divorced. His father, John Moradian, practiced medicene in Fresno for several years until the divorce, after which he moved to Chicago.
