Marisa Dell Moore

It is with saddened but love-filled hearts that we share Saint Marisa Dell Moore, proud Minnesotan, beloved "Funny Gurl", and life of the party, has passed into the heavenly realm and onto her next adventure. Born Mesa, Arizona in 1966 to Alan A Moore and Della Turpin, Marisa graduated from Coon Rapids High School 1985 and then Wheaton College where she earned a bachelor's degree in Political Science. She’s survived by her adoring stepsons Maxwell and Eliott Edge, her siblings Cade and Ginger, and her new family Kevin and Jewels Flowers. She was an avid gardener and photo artist, a voracious reader, professional with a pool cue, Jeapordy champion, and dangerous funny woman. She climbed the professional ladder for decades at NYK Lines earning the love and respect of her colleagues, she traveled the world, regularly volunteered with All Saints Church in Leonia, including their interfaith community building program. Recently before her passing she took part in No Kings advocating for the rights of her neighbors and total strangers alike. She coached elementary school basketball at Elenore Van Gelder School in Edgewater, NJ. The most AMAZING thing she did was save her adopted sons Maxwell and Eliott Edge, sons of Barry Watson Edge and Loretta Cunningham, from a very tough road. Selflessness, compassion, hard work and love were the values she championed through out her whole entire life. A few weeks ago she experienced some complications with her liver. Sadly, those issues escalated rapidly on Wednesday. To those who love her: we are happy to say that the day just before, Tuesday, while she was still lucid as a goose, she received not only Mother's Day flowers, but some very belated Christmas gifts from us as well. A big sweater with a moose on it and a good-sized, framed, dashing photo of her taken not too long after we first met her in the 90s. Very young and beautiful and in the Big City. During our visit she was laughing, joking, talking politics, and reading. We even went out and bought her a book when she started surfing her local library's website. And she got lots of kisses, hugs, and attention, and a big tasty smoothie. She transitioned May 14th, at 2:00 AM without pain, smoothly, gently and calmly with those close who loved her so. She was not conscious for the experience, and was deeply asleep. Maxwell and I, her adopted sons (who she had no small hand in shaping) sang her songs, played her music, showered her with kisses and hugs, held her hands, and embraced her during the final hour. And we told her from our very souls how much she's meant to us and to all of you. She was an incredible giver. It makes me dizzy how much she gave us. We went on and on about how loved she's been here, and how very welcomed she will be on the other side. It was a joy to be with this wonderful, angel of a human being, who singlehandedly supported myself, my brother, and our father---as much as it was, it is, terrifically devastating. There is no way to express how important Marisa has been in our lives. We've known her since we were five and four years old, some 35 years ago, and half across the country. She used to tell us, "When I met you two, my whole hand was larger than your backs." And in those decades she made our family complete, and time and again, made it better. And better. And better. And better. In fact it's better said that we don't have memories of Marisa; rather, Marisa IS our memory. She was a light. Is a light. Will certainly continue to be a light for us and I'm sure for many of you too!

Marisa Dell Moore

May 14, 2026