Marisa Nance

Connect What inspired your most recent tattoo?

I don’t have very many tattoos I have three and the last one I got was my sister‘s name. I wanted to do something more but it was like $75 and at the time that was all I had so I got her name on me and I always intended on going back and having more added to it! We were three years apart, and I was devastated three years ago when she found out she had pancreatic cancer and only months to live. I miss my sister and I knew I wanted her name on me.

If your ink could speak, what would it say?

Tammie..my sister. she was strong and brave, and never showed on the outside to anyone that she was scared or how bad she was hurting or how sad she was that she only had months to live. She worried more about us than her own self about how we would all be once she was gone and her two daughters and her husband. There’s so many things I could say about her, but I know I’m limited on here. She’s my hero. I can only wish that I would be as strong as she was if I were faces with w

What would you do with the $25,000?

$25,000 is a lot of money to me, so if I won the $25,000 I would definitely make a donation with some of it to the new cancer center that we have in our town and buy a beautiful plaque with her picture and her name on it and donate it to them. I would give some to my nieces. I have two she had two daughters Hannah and Bailey and I’d probably put the rest in a savings for myself. I’m a single woman I live on my own so I would probably put it in a savings and just keep adding to it.