After a 20+-year struggle with multiple sclerosis, Marsha Suzanne Laroe found peace on September 26, 2024. Born on March 5, 1947 in Winchester, Massachusetts, she found happiness in her childhood and teenage years in family car rides, doing whatever her older sister, Sandee, was doing, and singing in the church and school choirs. She met the love of her life, Fredrick Laroe, at just 12 years of age while swimming at the local lake. And though their lives diverged after the Vietnam War, these high school sweethearts reconnected in mid-life and married in 1990. Marsha worked jobs where she could be of service to others, with her favorite being a Montessori preschool teacher. In her free time, she applied her immense artistic talents towards crafts, calligraphy, greeting cards, and pen-and-ink drawings. After losing the use of her right hand, she learned to write and paint with her left, with which she continued to bring beautiful creations into the world. Her superpower was making anyone she met feel special with a smile that could light up a room and the warm touch of her hand. She will be greatly missed by many, especially the family members who survive her, including: her husband Fredrick Laroe; her children Diana Winters, Delesha Carpenter, Daniel Laroe, and Tracey Long and their families; sister Sandee Valenti; and grandchildren, Jason Noyes, Anne Carpenter, Vivian Laroe, Quinton Laroe, and Connor Long. She has asked that in lieu of flowers, donations be made to CarePartners Hospice Solace Center. Checks can be mailed to CarePartners Solace at 21 Belvedere Road, Asheville, NC 28803 in care of Beverly Switzer. A celebration of her life will be held on December 22 at 1 pm at Haiku in Asheville, NC.