Edith Rosella Moore, 67 of Charlotte, transitioned from the cares of this world on Sunday June 21, 2020 surrounded by the love of all her children. She was the fifth child born to Fred and Oneasie Overton in Pennington Gap, Virginia on March 11, 1953.

Our Mom had many hobbies including coloring, singing, listening to music, but the two that she will be most remembered for are her cooking and shopping.  She loved to feed everyone and everyone loved her cooking especially her famous banana pudding.  Her kids could never get enough of her cooking.  She would shop just to get out of the house and enjoyed doing this with her very close friend Betty Quarles.  Our Mom also learned a special trait from her mother about growing and maintaining plants, which she loved to do and encouraged whoever complimented her plants to take a piece and start their own.

In her early years she worked at nursing homes taking care of elderly patients.  Later, she worked for the Hitchcock Center for Women a community agency that helped women on their journey of recovery from addiction.  Edith loved working at Hitchcock Center and was deeply saddened when she could no longer work due to the onset of breast cancer.  Caring for people was something that came so natural to her.  Even though she had six kids, you would thing she had many more by the amount of people who were always at her home.  Her home was always open to friends and family no matter the time of day or night.  All of the kids in the neighborhood knew they could come to her home for a meal or a place to stay for a few nights.  Anyone who crossed into her threshold just knew that they would be treated like family and sometimes received the same disciplinarian actions as her kids, she did not play.  If you messed up she would cuss you out and feed you afterwards.

Edith raised in Cleveland, OH where she attended John Adams high school.  Unable to complete her high school education traditionally in 1971 due to family obligations, Edith never stopped pursing her dream of finishing high school.  In 1998, in the presence of her mother and children she achieved her GED in a formal graduation ceremony at Case Western Reserve, a moment that she was so proud of.  Seeing her beaming with joy and pride in her cap and gown was priceless.   She instilled in her kids to always stay true to who you are and never worry about someone's opinion of you.  If you start something you better finish, as she would say.  She supported all of her kids and made sure she was always there for major events as they supported her.

Edith loved to travel and take adventures, as she would say.  It did not matter if the trip was by herself, she still was going.  She enjoyed looking at her passport and admiring the stamps of the countries she visited, and would often tell the kids "it's time for a new stamp hint hint".  She took pictures wherever she went and would take a selfie just because she could.

Edith's greatest attribute was loving her family with unconditional love.  She loved all of her siblings, and had a very special bond with her youngest brother Richie.  She made sure he was always taken care of.  Edith was thankful of the relationship that was reunited between her sister Annette.  Whenever they visited each other they were like teenagers all over again.  She checked on her two older brothers; James and Wilkie to ensure they were up to date with the business of her life and theirs.  Two siblings preceded her in death Bartie and Thomas Lee as well as her parents Fred and Oneasie Overton.

As she battled cancer, she remained strong and confident.  Still maintaining her class and dignity.  She would not allow it to get the best of her.  Her will to live was seen by all as she went through her many stages.  Always telling us that "she will be ok, it just another treatment".

Those left to live out her legacy and forever cherish her memory are her two daughters; Dionne Overton-Mobley and Che'Landra Moore-Quarles; a bonus daughter Latoya Williams. Her four sons Ernest Moore Jr (Money), Brian Moore Sr, Ricardo Hardaway Jr and Tandarro Hardaway Sr; a special nephew who she helped raised like her own son John Moore Jr (Junior); her 21 grandchildren; her 5 great-grandchildren and a host of family and friends.  Edith was affectionally known to her grandchildren and great grandchildren as Na-Ma, a name she picked out because she was too fly to be called granny or grandma.