Marianne Frances Moore

Dr. Marianne Frances Moore, age 64 of Odenton, MD died peacefully in hospice care which was lovingly provided by Hospice of the Chesapeake on August 1, 2024. Dr. Moore is a retired Associate Nursing Professor at Bowie State University in Bowie, MD from 2021 – 2024. Previously, she was an Assistant Nursing professor at Sam Houston State University School of Nursing in Huntsville, TX from 2014 – 2020. Dr. Moore served as a Clinical Nursing Instructor at St. Thomas University School of Nursing (Houston, TX) in 2014 and, she was a Clinical Instructor at the University of Texas School of Nursing in Houston, TX (2007-2011 and 2013). Dr. Moore taught as a visiting Nursing Professor at Houston Baptist University from 2011-2012. Prior to that, she taught as a Clinical Instructor at The Clarkson College of Nursing (1994-1998) and The University of Nebraska Medical Center School of Nursing in Omaha, Nebraska (2005-2007). Dr. Moore also taught childbirth education classes and worked as a labor and delivery nurse at Clarkson Hospital (1998-2004). Dr. Moore was a Certified Nurse Midwife and practiced at the Pine Ridge and Rosebud Native American reservations in South Dakota (2004-2005) as well as The Bay Area Birth Center in Pasadena, Texas (2011 – 2013). Dr. Moore was also a certified Healing Touch Practitioner.

Dr. Moore loved music, fine dining and the theater. Her favorite vacation destinations were Las Vegas and New York, NY. Dr. Moore enjoyed attending live rock and roll concerts and the theater with her husband Steve as well as being served the finest chef prepared meals at five star rated meals at some of the world’s top restaurants (Bobby Flay; Emeril Lagasse, Masaharu Morimoto and Mario Batali owned restaurants just to name a few) when she wasn’t working. Dr. Moore and her husband Steve saw many live rock and roll concerts together over the 28 years they were married. Dr. Moore’s favorite rock group was the Moody Blues and her favorite two songs were Nights in White Satin and Never Comes the Day. Dr. Moore and her husband also shared these common favorite songs: Can’t Buy Me Love and When I’m 64 (Beatles), Forever Autumn (Justin Hayward), Only the Good Die Young (Billy Joel), Stairway to Heaven (Led Zeppelin) and I Need a New Drug (Huey Lewis and the News).

Dr. Moore and her husband Steve saw The Moody Blues (several times), Elton John, Billy Joel, Southside Johnny and The Asbury Jukes (several times), Tower of Power, Huey Lewis and the News, Rod Stewart, Neil Diamond, Harry Connick Jr., James Taylor (several times), James Brown, Michael Bolton, The Manhattan Transfer, Tom Jones, Paul McCartney, Ed Sheeran, Kenny Loggins, Daryl Hall and John Oates, Chicago, The Doobie Brothers, Earth Wind and Fire, Lionel Ritchie, Justin Hayward (several times), John Lodge , Tony Levin, Mary Chapin Carpenter, Cheryl Crowe, Joe Walsh and 1964 as the Beatles - just to name a few. Dr. Moore and her husband even accompanied modern-daughters Liz and Emily to The Pepsi Center in Denver, CO to see the Christina Aguilera and Justin Timberlake double bill concert (we almost lost our hearing that day) and, to “Sweet Stock” which was an all-day music production featuring several up and coming bands (NSYNC and Unkle Kraker were the headliners that day) in Council Bluffs, IA. Sweet Stock was considered the modern day version of Woodstock back then.

Dr. Moore and her husband enjoyed attending Las Vegas show productions. They saw Cirque De Sole shows each time they returned to Las Vegas on vacation. Dr. Moore’s favorite Cirque production was “Love” which is a Beatles themed production. Dr. Moore and her husband also enjoyed watching Las Vegas Magicians David Copperfield and Penn and Teller as well as many headlining music artists such as The Moody Blues, Tom Jones, Paul McCartney, Huey Lewis and the News, Tower of Power and Rod Stewart just to name a few. Dr. Moore loved Broadway play productions in New York, NY as well as off-Broadway productions that were playing at the Kennedy Center in Washington, DC. She and her husband were able to see Wicked, Hair, Rent, Movin Out-The Music of Billy Joel, Hamilton, Beautiful-The Carol King Story, A Beautiful Noise-The Neil Diamond Story, Spamalot, and An American in Paris just to name a few.

Dr. Moore was big fan of the STARZ series Outlander which is a historical drama based on the Outlander novel series by Diana Gabaldon. Dr. Moore related to Claire’s character because she was a healer and she provided medical care. She also related to Claire’s nickname in the series “Sassenach” because of how “assertive” and “foreign” her character was. She even bought an Outlander sweatshirt with Clair’s likeness on the front that read “I’m not the quiet meager type” which she loved wearing in public just to see people’s reactions. Dr. Moore used to always joke that she “had to import my hillbilly husband” because she wanted a life partner “who appreciated and respected” her personality.

Dr. Moore had a good sense of humor and was known to wear t shirts and sweatshirts with sayings on them. One of the t shirts she wore read “Meconium Happens” which was a polite medical phrase that translates medically to “s$%t happens”. Her other favorite shirt said that “it will be a great day in America when the USAF has to hold a bake sale to pay for its bombers”. Her husband Steve is a USAF Vet, so he also found that shirt highly amusing.

Dr. Moore’s passion was sewing and quilting. Dr. Moore sewed her own wedding dress before her marriage to her husband Steve and she also sewed her daughter Emily’s Senior Dance dresses when she was in High School. Dr. Moore also sewed her own graduation gown because “the ones you buy/rent don’t have any pockets in them and are uncomfortable.” She also helped make several Lutheran World Relief Ministry Quilts while she attended St. Michael’s Lutheran Church in Omaha, NE. Dr. Moore made several quilts over the years including the King-sized music themed quilt that’s currently lying on the master bedroom bed for her husband Steve. Dr. Moore loved going to the annual National Quilt Show in Houston, TX every year while she lived there because she loved looking at the various creations and talents of other international quilt makers who displayed their work at that show.

Dr. Moore was born in Bloomfield, New Jersey. She was the daughter of Edwin and Dorothy Woolever. Dr. Moore was preceded in death by Edwin Woolever (1995) and Dorothy Woolever (2017). She is survived by her husband Steve and her two daughters Elizabeth Sergel- Hartman and her husband Jason and grandson’s James and Ben (Dallas/Ft. Worth) and Emily Sergel and her husband Jonos Komlos’ (Metuchen, New Jersey) and her granddaughter Esther Violet. She is also survived by her brother John Woolever and his wife Lorraine (Whitehouse Station, New Jersey) and their two children Douglas and Julia Woolever as well as her sister Luise Malloy and her husband Brian who reside in Portugal and her first cousin JoAnn Weiner and her husband Joel of Cherry Hill, NJ. Dr. Moore is survived by her sister-in-law Kimberly Clark-Brondum and her husband Daniel (Green County, MS) and her Brother-In-Law Hermon Clark Jr. (Green County, MS).

A visitation for Dr. Moore will be held Thursday, August 8, 2024 from 5:30 PM to 8:00 PM at Robert E. Evans Funeral Home, 16000 Annapolis Road, Bowie, MD 20715. There will be another visitation at church on Friday, August 9, 2024 from 9:00 AM to 9:30 AM at Hope Lutheran Church, 4201 Guilford Dr, College Park, MD 20740. Her funeral service will begin at 9:30 AM at Church following the visitation.

Dr. Moore will be cremated per her final wishes and her remains will be placed in a stone cremation bench at Lakemont Memorial Gardens in Davidsonville, MD along with her husband’s cremated remains once he passes away. In lieu of flowers please contribute in her name to Doctors Without Borders, Midwives for Hatai or Planned Parenthood. You may also feel free to contribute to any other women’s health organization of your choice or to the Bowie State University Nursing Scholarship Fund in her honor.