Joan Elaine Moore Setser was born to Willard and Marian Moore in Springfield, Pennsylvania on August 22, 1942. She was an only child - adored by her parents - and spent her youth traveling to Daytona Beach with her family, spending summers in Ocean City, New Jersey, and having magical Christmas holidays. She left the comfort of home and did something unexpected by enrolling in Pikeville College in eastern Kentucky. While away in college she made friends that would remain for a lifetime and met the love of her life, Rodger Dean Setser from Auxier, Kentucky.  Their lives, upbringings and interests could not have been more different. After graduation Joan returned to NJ with her family and Rodger remained at Pikeville to finish his degree. Joan and Rodger married on August 29, 1963 and started their life together in New Jersey. They both went into the education field and settled in Turnersville, NJ. Joan began her career and passion as a public educator in New Jersey. During her career she impacted and touched the lives of countless children, especially students with disabilities in her early years and pre-school at the end of her time in education. They made Millville, NJ their home. Joan and Rodger had two boys after years of praying and praying for them (Christopher Dean - wife Allison McLaughlin Setser and Stephen Willard - wife Kelly Lauren Setser) and spent many days cheering them on at the ballfield, took many family trips around the country in their motorhome and enjoyed many Kentucky basketball games together. Joan raised the boys with lots of baking, family pets, making birthdays extra special, and raised them in the First United Methodist Church. She would ultimately follow her boys and relocated to North Carolina after a new chapter of being a grandmother started. She loved finally having girls in her life and she adored her granddaughters Madison (husband Haden Sparks) and Meredith Setser. She loved singing, baking and spending time shopping with them. She later had more grandchildren Hutch and Marin Setser and gained a bonus granddaughter Harper.  She got to spend time with them watching them in gymnastics, coming for visits, and telling them Bible stories.  When Joan lost Rodger she turned toward her faith, friends, family and the Millville community. She continued doing her church circle meetings with her friends and volunteering with the youth of Millville after school. She loved enjoying some fast food, fruit grown on her trees in the yard and any ice cream, cake or pie. She often traveled to North Carolina and spent time with her family and later made it her home moving down just a few years ago. She continued to stay close and visited her in-laws, the Setser family, and continued to stay close to them. She was generous and trusting and saw the good in all she met and may have immensely spoiled her dogs and made them better dinners than she ate herself. She was diagnosed this spring with pancreatic cancer, after two battles with breast cancer and a tumor behind her eye, and knew she had lived a fulfilling life of purpose and spent her final days living in her son's home and spending her last days with family, where she was happiest. In lieu of flowers the family would ask for donations to Pancreatic Cancer Foundation or the First United Methodist Church in Millville, NJ.

Visitation 11am Thursday August 24, 2023 Followed by Joan's Funeral Service at 12noon at the Toppitzer Funeral Home, 2900 State Rd., Drexel Hill PA 19026. Burial-Arlington Cemetery, Drexel Hill

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Joan M. Hagan
Funeral Director
Toppitzer Funeral Home
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