STOCKTON SPRINGS - Edward L. Moffitt, 80, died peacefully at his home surrounded by his family on May 28, 2020 in Stockton Springs, Maine. He was born September 27, 1939 in Rockland, Maine, the son of Edward R. C. Moffitt and Gertrude V. Blackington.
Ed graduated from Rockland High school with the Class of 1958 and graduated from the University of Maine Orono with a degree in Biochemistry.
As a youth, Ed spent meaningful time swimming and camping at Lucia Beach, going to dances and rambling around the neighborhood with his band of friends. He loved to explore the countryside and coastlines of Knox County and especially loved spending time in the Wessaweskeag salt marsh, which he would return to throughout his life for inspiration.
He enjoyed playing chess, studying French, and researching scientific topics of interest. Friendly conversations, going to breakfast, and swimming at Megunticook Lake, were at the top of his list.
Ed wore many professional hats throughout the first half of his life, one of which was as a talented biochemist and project lab director at Eastern Maine Medical Center in Bangor where his research was published in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition and the Journal of the Maine Medical Association.
Ed’s career took him to the Maine Department of Human Services where he became a Regional Coordinator sharing offices at the Kennebec Valley Community Action Program, where he met his wife, Jane. He left those professions to pursue a fulltime career in art, establishing the Sandy Point Studio in 1976. Ed dedicated himself to working with his own visions and inspirations, doing some commission work, including editorial illustration and photography for local papers. Much of Ed’s work was what he liked to call “people work”, figure studies and portraiture. With the rest of his art, a mixture of salt marsh landscapes, trees and existential themes exploring Eros, Thanatos and the journey and the will to personal meaning. He enjoyed writing and sharing his poetry with friends and family, some of which he submitted to professional publications. Ed placed much significance on human relationships and cultivated friendships with artists and good-natured souls throughout the mid coast. He, along with his wife loved hosting and attending art shows, as well as facilitating weeklong artist retreats on Monhegan Island and Downeast Lubec.
Ed loved his family deeply, and he also loved exploring and experiencing the world around him. He valued intellect, creativity, humor, paradox and off the wall ridiculousness. He questioned the status quo and pushed the limits in his own unique way. He instilled in his children a love of and reverence for nature, encouraging existential and personal inquiry.
Edward is survived and will be missed by his wife of 44 years, Jane Ann (Dyer) Moffitt; his three children, Aimee Margaret Moffitt-Mercer and partner, Lew McGregor, Sarah Ann Valerie Moffitt and partner, Chris Buchanan, Edward Aaron Caleb Moffitt and husband, Roberto Forleo; grandson, Randy Vogel Mercer and girlfriend, Melissa Torres; sister, Julia Jones and husband, Jim; brother, Frank Moffitt and wife, Nancy Moffitt; many nieces and nephews; and family friends, April and Phil Nickerson.
We will remember him wearing his navy-blue stocking cap and carrying his walking stick. Ed was a perceptive, lighthearted and genuine person.
A celebration of life is planned for July 25, 2020.
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Ed graduated from Rockland High school with the Class of 1958 and graduated from the University of Maine Orono with a degree in Biochemistry.
As a youth, Ed spent meaningful time swimming and camping at Lucia Beach, going to dances and rambling around the neighborhood with his band of friends. He loved to explore the countryside and coastlines of Knox County and especially loved spending time in the Wessaweskeag salt marsh, which he would return to throughout his life for inspiration.
He enjoyed playing chess, studying French, and researching scientific topics of interest. Friendly conversations, going to breakfast, and swimming at Megunticook Lake, were at the top of his list.
Ed wore many professional hats throughout the first half of his life, one of which was as a talented biochemist and project lab director at Eastern Maine Medical Center in Bangor where his research was published in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition and the Journal of the Maine Medical Association.
Ed’s career took him to the Maine Department of Human Services where he became a Regional Coordinator sharing offices at the Kennebec Valley Community Action Program, where he met his wife, Jane. He left those professions to pursue a fulltime career in art, establishing the Sandy Point Studio in 1976. Ed dedicated himself to working with his own visions and inspirations, doing some commission work, including editorial illustration and photography for local papers. Much of Ed’s work was what he liked to call “people work”, figure studies and portraiture. With the rest of his art, a mixture of salt marsh landscapes, trees and existential themes exploring Eros, Thanatos and the journey and the will to personal meaning. He enjoyed writing and sharing his poetry with friends and family, some of which he submitted to professional publications. Ed placed much significance on human relationships and cultivated friendships with artists and good-natured souls throughout the mid coast. He, along with his wife loved hosting and attending art shows, as well as facilitating weeklong artist retreats on Monhegan Island and Downeast Lubec.
Ed loved his family deeply, and he also loved exploring and experiencing the world around him. He valued intellect, creativity, humor, paradox and off the wall ridiculousness. He questioned the status quo and pushed the limits in his own unique way. He instilled in his children a love of and reverence for nature, encouraging existential and personal inquiry.
Edward is survived and will be missed by his wife of 44 years, Jane Ann (Dyer) Moffitt; his three children, Aimee Margaret Moffitt-Mercer and partner, Lew McGregor, Sarah Ann Valerie Moffitt and partner, Chris Buchanan, Edward Aaron Caleb Moffitt and husband, Roberto Forleo; grandson, Randy Vogel Mercer and girlfriend, Melissa Torres; sister, Julia Jones and husband, Jim; brother, Frank Moffitt and wife, Nancy Moffitt; many nieces and nephews; and family friends, April and Phil Nickerson.
We will remember him wearing his navy-blue stocking cap and carrying his walking stick. Ed was a perceptive, lighthearted and genuine person.
A celebration of life is planned for July 25, 2020.
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