MARIE POE, RIP: Farewell to the Love of My Life
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by Richard Poe Tuesday, March 3, 2026 3:18 pm Eastern Time |
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Richard Poe
Farewell, my love. I will never forget you. — RICHARD |
MARIE POE, RIP
Farewell to the Love of My Life
This is the hardest thing I ever wrote.
My beautiful Marie has died.
It happened suddenly and unexpectedly on the morning of New Year’s Eve, December 31, 2025.
Our house was filled with holiday cheer that morning, every room festooned with Christmas decorations. Marie was looking forward to cooking a romantic New Year’s Eve dinner just for the two of us.
Shortly before 8 AM, I heard Marie cry out, “Richard, help me!” I ran to her. She collapsed in my arms. By the time the ambulance arrived, the love of my life was gone.
We were married 34 years. Marie was my whole world, my whole life.
I will love her forever till I die.
Sandy Frazier took the above pictures of me and Marie at a Newsmax dinner in 2007.
You can see the fire of love in our eyes.
Being married to Marie was an adventure.
We started out as a “power couple” in the ’90s (Marie as a TV producer and me as a bestselling author). See Marie’s IMDb profile here.
Among other achievements, Marie was animation producer for the premier season of MTV’s hit series Beavis and Butt-Head.
But we fell from grace with the media elites, and endured long years of struggle.
Our love and faith sustained us through every hardship.
Here’s Marie at our wedding in 1991 (see above).
She was the most beautiful woman I ever beheld, beautiful inside and out.
She had a brilliant mind and a pure, loving soul.
In this wicked world, I have never found such goodness as I found in Marie.
Marie was older than me by eleven years (though most would never guess by her looks).
When we married, Marie was 44 and I was one month shy of 33.
Perhaps if I’d married a younger woman, I wouldn’t have been left to face old age alone.
But I regret nothing.
I would do it all over again.
Marie was worth it. If you knew her, you would understand.
I had a strange foreboding or premonition about Marie only eight days before she died.
It was so striking, I felt I had to write it down.
(See notebook page below.)
All you men out there, cherish your wives while you can.
Sorrow comes for us, as sure as night follows day.
A version of this tribute was first published on X, February 14, 2026—my last Valentine’s message to my beautiful Marie, my one true love.
Richard Poe is a New York Times-bestselling author and award-winning journalist. He has written many bestselling books, on a wide range of subjects, both fiction and non-fiction. Poe’s best-known book is The Shadow Party, an exposé of George Soros and his color revolutions, co-written with David Horowitz. Poe’s latest book is How the British Invented Communism (And Blamed It on the Jews).
